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On November 26, 2015, the renovated observation tower was opened, which is located in the southern part of the park near the Winter Garden. These two buildings, separated by some distance, are nevertheless linked by a common history that dates back to the middle of the 19th century. Since 1840, the building of the Winter Garden served as one of the ground buildings of the sugar factory of the owner of the Gomel estate Ivan Fedorovich Paskevich. In the underground room of the production building there was a boiler room that supplied steam to the machines. To remove the combustion products and create a draft for the furnace on the high bank of the Sozh River, a high brick exhaust pipe was erected. At the request of the new owner of the Gomel estate, Fyodor Ivanovich Paskevich, the production of the sweet product was transferred to Dobrush. And in the early 1880s, the buildings of the sugar factory were partially re-equipped and adapted for park facilities, which they still are today. The ground production building housed a greenhouse - "Winter Garden"; after reconstruction, the chimney was used as a viewing tower.

The observation tower served as a park facility throughout the Soviet period. During the Great Patriotic War, the building was damaged by shelling. Traces of being hit by shrapnel and bullets have survived to this day. In the post-war period, the operation of the structure continued until the early 2000s. Due to the emergency state of the stairs in 2007, the tower was closed for restoration. During the repair work, metal structures were replaced, brickwork elements were strengthened and restored, and electricity was supplied. Together with the observation deck and the spire above it, the height of the structure reaches 40 meters.

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