Light & Engineering Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 24-26, 2015 Svetotekhnika No. 2, 2015, pp. 18-20 LANDSCAPE ILLUMINATION OF THE ALEKSANDROVSKY GARDEN, MOSCOW Sergei V. Chuvikin1 GRIVEN Russia, Moscow E-mail: sergey@griven-russia.com ABSTRACT 1 The article provides a brief history of the creation of the Aleksandrovsky garden in Moscow and on the plan of its recent large scale rearrangement. <...> The work was performed within construction and mounting operations including architectural and art illumination of the buildings located in the designated “Protected area round the Kremlin”. <...> Illumination of the small natural features was achieved using advanced technologies developed by GRIVEN Company. <...> Special attention was given to an original illumination concept proposed by specialists from Svetoproekt Company. <...> Keywords: light emitting diodes, MHL, colour changers, optics, light point, control system, light, RGBW, power 1 The pictures of E. Kiryushina. <...> A BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Aleksandrovsky garden is located behind the Iversky gate, a slope of Borovitsky hill and lines up the western wall of the Kremlin from Revolution square to the Kremlin embankment. <...> Thus, the Kremlin was surrounded by water from the all sides, and in ancient times it was an unassailable fortress. <...> Bove conceived the Kremlin garden as a park, in which a strict axial layout was combined with winding paths, picturesquely grouped by fl owerbeds and bushes, romantic ruins and architecture of small forms. <...> The dynamical space of the garden going along the Kremlin wall was not closed: from the opposite side, behind Borovitsky gate, it had an exit towards a thoroughfare along the Moskva River and was connected with the greenery of the boulevards surrounding the walls of the Kremlin. <...> As a part of the boulevard green belt, which arose in the early 1820s around the Kremlin walls, the garden promoted a spatial unifi cation of the territories around the Kremlin and its connection with the surrounding city. <...> In Top and Middle gardens, three alleys are laid in parallel with Kremlin wall and Manezhnaya square. <...> RECONSTRUCTION A part of the grand reconstruction project of Aleksandrovsky garden became the modernisation of the landscape outlook and updating all of the park territory at the Kremlin walls. <...> According to the new decoration project, almost 3000 bushes were planted: hawthorn, juniper, lilac and hydrangea, and about 78 thousand fl owers: cannas <...>