Becket Pond Park is located right next to the Third Ring Road. According to some sources, the floodplain of the Chura River is nearby, according to others, the Krovyanka River, which now flows in the pipe. The name of the pond comes from the Beketovskaya dacha.

On the maps of 1917 and 1930, there was a “process” near the pond, most likely, the remains of the Beketovka channel. The surface area of the reservoir is 1.2 hectares, and the average depth of the pond is 2.5 meters. Not far from the pond there is a spring and white willow left over from the former manor house. The pond was landscaped and cleared, warehouses and landfills were removed, but you should not drink water from it: it contains cadmium and chromium.

At the beginning of the 19th century, I. P. Beketov, a collector of works of art and numismatics, was known as “a corner inaccessible to anyone”. There was a lot of things on the territory — a winter garden, which was home to plants from South America, India and Africa, and a poultry house on the hill, meadows and a park. Later, the site almost became a slaughterhouse (the city decided to move the complex to Pokrovskaya Zastava), and then it was destined to become a psychiatric hospital. The Moscow authorities also had slightly different views on it: to make a kind of southern Sokolniki here. In 1950, Beketov's dacha was given to a factory, and since 1906, the famous Russian psychiatrist P. P. Kashchenko was working on a new system for that time, when the mentally ill were sent to families for maintenance for money. The hospital has been repeatedly renamed. A little later, the Kanatchikovo station of the Moscow Railway appeared, in honor of the Kanatchikova Dacha.

Before the reconstruction, the park was a sad sight: no asphalt, no lighting, only the Third Ring Road makes noise nearby. Of the walkers, only pensioners from neighboring houses.

But 2012 has come, and the park has undergone a significant reconstruction: beautiful paved paths, landscaped grounds... Queues line up near the ping pong tables, and the park is celebrated various holidays - from City Day to Spring and Labor Day.

Now people ride a boat here, fry kebabs, fish. There are crucian carp, rotan and bitterness here.