The most famous streets in Krasnoyarsk - Lenin, Marx, Mir - bear "Soviet" names. There are such streets in any Russian city. But their former names, like the pages of the chronicle of Krasnoyarsk, will help you get acquainted with the history of the city and interesting people who were born and lived there when.
The most famous streets are located in the historical part of the city and bear "Soviet" names - Lenin, Marx, Mir, prospect named after the newspaper "Krasnoyarsk Rabochy", May 9. They failed to preserve their original appearance, but they keep the memory of the past.
All the other way around
Krasnoyarsk is the birthplace of the great Russian artist V. I. Surikov. In the city there is a house - a museum of the painter, and the school where he studied has survived. They are located on Lenin Street.
And Surikov street used to be called Pokrovsky lane. Here, not far from the intersection of Surikov and Marx, is the Intercession Cathedral, a monument of "folk architecture" of the eighteenth century. It was built in the Baroque style.
In the building on 34 Surikova Street in 1905, the first issues of Krasnoyarsk Rabochy were printed. In 1920 the editorial office of the newspaper moved here. Lenin visited this house.
The surviving wing of the house of the Cossack Putimtsev once housed the first city library in Krasnoyarsk. In pre-revolutionary Russia, Krasnoyarsk was the most literate city. The exiled Vladimir Ulyanov visited the library.
Most most
The longest street in Krasnoyarsk is Semapornaya. Its length is 14 km. The avenue named after the newspaper "Krasnoyarsk Rabochy" is slightly inferior to her.
And the shortest, only two blocks, is Karatanov Street. She remembers the last Russian emperor, Count Speransky, the writer Radishchev and the Russian governor of California, Commander Rezanov. The city's first city museum and city archive appeared here.
The street is named in honor of D. I. Karatanov, artist, head of the first art school in Siberia. As part of ethnographic expeditions, he traveled all over the Yenisei Territory. Paintings by D. I. Today Karatanov can be seen in the Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore.
Disappeared forever
The Red Army Street used to be called Vsekhsvyatskaya. Here, in the church in the name of All Saints, Vasily Surikov was baptized.
On the same street stood the Nativity of the Mother of God Cathedral, built according to the project of K. Ton, the architect of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. The money for the construction was allocated by the famous city patron and benefactor, merchant of the first guild, Shchegolev.
Unfortunately, the cathedral and church were destroyed in 1935 and 1936.
Krasnoyarsk is growing. On the bank of the Abakanskaya channel in the Pashenny microdistrict, the first in Russia fifteen-storey house with a berth for yachts is being built. New streets appear in the city, modern and already well-known.
