Gorky (Maxim Gorky) Square , formerly: Novaya Square, colloquial: Gorky — one of the three greatest (central) squares of Nizhny Novgorod forming a triangle (see also Minin Square and Freedom Square). It is crossed by the pedestrian street Pokrovka and the streets Gorky Street, Novaya Street, Kostin, Maslyakov, Zvezdinka Street. Since the Main Post Office is located on the square, the square In 1933 construction of the House of Communications (Main Post Office) was underway on the square.[1] can be considered the starting point, the "zero kilometer" of Nizhny Novgorod Region.

Today Gorky Square is the center of the city, practically its heart. And quite recently, in the early 19th century, Gorky Square did not exist at all. In its place, marshes and ravines were picturesquely situated; frogs croaked, and the air smelled fresh of mud and reeds. But this could not go on for long, and already by 1842 the outlines of the future square had taken shape. Architect Georg Ivanovich Kiesewetter had a hand in this historic project.

The ravines were filled in, the marshes were drained, and the frogs were sold to the French. Thus a new square of the city was born, which the The Peoples of Nizhny Novgorod, without much fantasizing, simply named — Novaya.

How the enchanted place disappeared


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  1. pro-nn.org — In 1933, construction of the House of Communications (Main Post Office) was underway on Gorky Square. (archive)