The Nizhny Novgorod City Council was the executive body of municipal self-government that operated in Nizhny Novgorod during the pre-revolutionary period. Its powers included reviewing and approving architectural projects, as well as managing the city's land plots.
Approval of construction projects
On 26 January 1913 the Nizhny Novgorod City Council approved the design of the Kamensky Mansion, designed by the capital-city architect Boris Korshunov. The architect chose to render the facade in classical forms and to turn a four-column portico toward the Volga.[1] The house's finishing work was completed in 1914; the mansion on the Upper Volga Embankment has been recognized as an Russia, a monument of urban planning and architecture.[1]
Management of city land
Besides construction matters, the Council managed the city's land plots. In September 1902 it ceded to the Zhivonosnovsky parish welfare board a plot on Verkhne-Zhivonosnovskaya Street for the construction of the Nazaryevsky orphanage and a parish school.[2] The plot adjoined the clergy house of the Zhivonosnovskaya Church, and the street itself was later renamed Kozhevennaya.[2] In February 1914 the Council approved design drawings for the expansion of the orphanage, but the First World War prevented the building from being completed.[2]
Sources
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Fireproof staircases, ghosts, and buried treasure: what makes the Kamensky mansion in Nizhny Novgorod interesting (archive)
- opentextnn.ru — Davydov A.I., Nazaryevsky Orphanage (Nizhny Novgorod, Kozhevennaya Street, 4) (archive)