Opened in 1928, the original Gorky Park was an amusement park located in what world capital city?

Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure is a central park in Moscow, named after Maxim Gorky. Maxim Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Gorky Park, located at Krymsky Val and situated just across the Moskva River from Park Kultury Metro station, opened in 1928. Initially it was covered with park gardens, meadows and vegetable gardens belonging to the owners of neighboring estates. It formed a wasteland by the end of the 19th century, and served as a waste heap.

On 15 March 1928 by a resolution of the Presidium of the Moscow Council, the Agricultural and Handicraft Industries Exhibition was enlarged and transformed into the Central Park of Culture and Leisure — the country’s first amusement park of its kind, which was referred to as an outdoor "cultural enterprise". In 1932 the park was named after M.A. Gorky.

Over the years the rides became decrepit, and the park territory was swamped with cheap attractions and cafes. More than two thousand square meters of new asphalt roadbed was laid on the site of demolished objects and 1.9 ha of new lawns and flowerbeds were laid out. All amusement rides but one, a two deck carousel, have been removed in order to transform the place into an eco-friendly recreational zone.