Alpine garden (the garden where alpine plants are collected and cultivated) is one of the most favorite recreational places of the city residents and guests.

History:

Alpine garden is very popular among tourists, but for the locals it is almost a stamping ground used to be visited by their grandparents and great-grandparents. Apparently, such a love for this place comes from the fact that the Alpine garden is, in fact, a reduced copy of mountains and valleys. Indeed, the very terrain with its numerous rocky exits and natural remnants of volcanic rocks contributed to the creation of such a park. On the upper terrace of the Alpine garden there is an artificial mountain made of yellowish limestone. A stream flows out of this mountain cascading down through the lower terrace, running right into the man-made lake. Many various trees grow there: juniper, boxwood, pine, spruce, and quite rare almost a century old common yews. In the Alpine garden there are also alpine and sub-alpine grasses and flowers. All these things create the image of an untouched natural mountain landscape.

In 1999 near the lake of the Alpine garden a bronze sculpture of two best-known Transcarpathian artists Joseph Bokshay and Adalbert Erdelyi was established.

The Alpine garden has been reconstructed several times. Before the reconstruction in the 60-s of the 20th century, below the Alpine garden there was a lake, where the waters of Malyi Vyzh ran into. But through the regulation of Velykyi Uzh channel, Malyi Uzh disappeared altogether. Today, residents of the city in memory of their favorite lost river established a mini-monument in the form of two metal fish on a pole symbolizing the rivers of Velykyi and Malyi Uzh.