See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Gorky Park is famous for many things, not many of them good. For ...

When Olga Zakharova took over as director of Gorky Park in 2011, the central Moscow space was worse than uninviting – it was seedy and not a place visitors would want to linger. Today, the park ...

NEW YORK – Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with “Gorky Park” and other thrillers featuring Moscow investigator Arkady Renko, has died at age 82.

MOSCOW — During the Cold War, the movie thriller "Gorky Park" gave the real park a scary reputation. Then, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the park suffered from two decades of decay. Fast ...

Of all Russia's communist-era landmarks, arguably none carries more resonance than Gorky Park. After this imposing "park of culture and leisure" was opened amid much fanfare in 1928, it quickly became ...

Today a trip to Gorky Park is a must for those spending the winter holidays in Moscow. But this is nothing new. The park has been the center of festivities in the Russian capital since the 1930s. In ...

Ukrainian prosecutor Roman Petrenko inspects the remains of Russian rockets that fell on the popular Gorky Park in the country's second city Kharkiv. Petrenko, a prosecutor from the city's ...

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Behind majestic columns adorned with hammers and sickles, Gorky Park in Moscow once stood as a testament to Russia's post-Soviet decay: dirty and forgotten, tinny techno pumping from its loudspeakers ...

NEW YORK — Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with “Gorky Park” and other thrillers featuring Moscow investigator Arkady Renko, has died at age 82.