Dobrolyubov Street (formerly Mironositskaya) runs in a gentle arc from Ilyinka Street to Bolshaya Pokrovskaya.
It is located in Zapochayanye (Nizhegorodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod), near the Church of the Myrrhbearing Women. It was planned as a continuation of Osypnaya Street under the plans of 1799, 1804, and 1824. But its red lines (the official building lines) were finally established only by the city plan of 1839: a short street that began at Lykova Dam and ran through to Ilyinskaya Street. A square was supposed to be laid out near the Church of the Myrrhbearing Women. The first stone building on it was the house of S. Pyatov. But until the end of the 19th century the street itself remained winding. Only under the Nizhny Novgorod plan of 1881 was it cut through in a straight line, and it began to be built up toward Ilyinskaya Street strictly along the red lines and predominantly with stone houses.
The photographer Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev captured Dobrolyubov Street with the Church of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women on Lykova Dam in the period between 1910 and 1916 — these photographs survive as an important visual record of the street's appearance in the early 20th century.[1] Originally the street was called Mironositskaya, after the church of the same name located here. It was later renamed in honor of Dobrolyubov.
Dobrolyubov Nikolay Alexandrovich (1836–1861) was a Russian literary critic, poet, and revolutionary democrat. He was born in Nizhny. Dobrolyubov's childhood and youth were spent in house No. 2 on Oktyabrskaya Street. A museum has been opened in the house.
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- pro-nn.org — Nizhny Novgorod. Dobrolyubov Street. Church of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women on Lykova Dam (archive)