In Popular Culture
- The park was written of in the novel Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith. It was later made into a film with the same name.
- The German Hard Rock band Scorpions achieved great success with their popular single, "Wind of Change", which references Gorky Park in light of the sociopolitical changes taking place in a post-Cold War era in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s.
- A Russian rock and roll band Gorky Park is named after the park.
- Gorky Park is mentioned in the song "Vodka" by Morena, which represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.
- In the First Person Multiplayer Shooter video game, Team Fortress 2, Gorky Park is referenced in the title of one of the game achievements pertaining to the 'Heavy' class.
- In the British show IT Crowd Gorky Park is mentioned as a typical soviet-like place where everyone has to smoke now because of the strict anti-smoking policies:
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