Mountainous Park

This park, located on the top circle of Baku amphitheater, is truly the classics of the Soviet landscape architecture. Very complicated relief of Mountainous Park conditioned its original terracing. Surrounding the slope of the amphitheater, the park descends with system of extended terraces in meridional direction, which are main promenade places, and connect among themselves by stairs and grounds. Much interesting, originally made complex of the park architecture is considered, by right, one of the best parks of the former Soviet country. Just therefore during the post-war period it was subjected only to negligible modification. The funicular constructed in the sixties (architects A.Gulahmadov, O. Margunova, G. Sadikhov) united Mountainous Park with Seaside Park and provided its comfortable connection with the central city district.
Now functions of Mountainous Park are essentially being transformed, and it is changing into the park of memorial purpose. The avenue of mourning - «Shahidlar Khiyabani» (Martyrs’ Avenue) is located here.
Cypresses, an Eldar pine, olives, a white acacia, Japanese Sophora, a genista, an oleander, and other species of trees and bushes were planted on slopes of the hill between promenade avenues in separate sceneries.