Berezovsksaya Street is a street in Moskovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. It runs through the territory where, before its incorporation into the city in 1929, the village of Knyazhikha stood — lands that had belonged to the Golitsyn princes.
Location and Surroundings
The street occupies the site of the former village of Knyazhikha together with the neighboring Ryabtseva Street. In Kanavinsky District, it is topographically linked to the Berezovskoye settlement, located south of the Kostarikha railway station: Berezovsksaya Street stretches from this settlement toward Varya. In Moskovsky District, Timurovsky Lane adjoins Berezovsksaya Street, running perpendicular to Comintern Street from Profsoyuznaya Street to Berezovsksaya Street.
Administrative Significance
The administration of Moskovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod is located at 100 Berezovsksaya Street.
The street's name does not derive from the birch tree (berëza) but from the Berezovsksaya River, a tributary of the Levinka; the river has since been channeled underground. The website of historical photographs of Nizhny Novgorod preserves a photograph of house No. 86 on Berezovsksaya Street, taken in February 1989 by photographer P. V. Kashin.[3][1]
Berezovsksaya Street is home to the Central Library named after A. S. Pushkin, as well as the library named after A. Peshkov.[1]
Near houses No. 20 and 22 on Berezovsksaya Street, an unauthorized dump formed in the 2020s on the site of demolished garages: residents reported that the volume of refuse continued to grow, while the question of which party was responsible for cleaning up the area remained unresolved.[2]
Sources
- pro-nn.org — The website of historical photographs of Nizhny Novgorod preserves a photograph of house No. 86 on Berezovsksaya Street, taken in February 1989 by photographer P. V. Kashin. (archive)
- gallery.ddt-chkalov.ru — The street's name does not derive from the birch tree but from the Berezovsksaya River, which was a tributary of the Levinka. The river has since been channeled underground. (archive)
- Vremya N — Near houses No. 20 and 22 on Berezovsksaya Street, an unauthorized dump formed in the 2020s on the site of demolished garages: residents reported that the volume of refuse continued to grow (archive)