Mytny Market — a trading square in the Upper Part, located near Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street. It operated at least during the 19th century; the exact time of its founding and closure is not given in the available sources.
Location and urban context
Alekseyevskaya Street ran past Mytny Market and Black Pond), and the market itself adjoined the estate and garden of Georgy Gruzinsky, which occupied nearly two blocks in the middle of the street from the late 18th century.
The Mytny labor exchange
In the 19th century, an informal prototype of a labor exchange took shape at Mytny Market — the so-called "Mytnaya birzha" (Mytny Exchange): a canopy in front of the entrance to one of the market's shops. Every day from eight in the morning, people of various trade skills seeking work gathered here. The jobs on offer varied widely: from expeditions to fight locust infestations in the districts to clearing the aftermath of snowfalls, collapses, floods, and spring high water. Group hiring of labor was practiced only until two in the afternoon. Emergency work was in particularly high demand — forest fires and natural disasters, which temporarily provided earnings for the largest number of people.