Oktyabrskaya Street is a street in the historic center of Nizhny Novgorod, running through the Upper Part. At various times it bore the names Voznesenskaya and Dvoryanskaya; it received its current name after the revolution. It crosses a number of key streets of the historic center and is connected with several places of memory in the city.
History and layout
On the 1799 plan of Nizhny Novgorod the street is marked as Voznesenskaya, and later as Dvoryanskaya. At the point of its intersection with Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street, at the beginning of the 17th century, stood the Nizhny Novgorod Ostrog with the Nikolsky Gates, through which the road to Moscow passed. According to the 1799 project of surveyor F. N. Belokopytov, a square was planned at the intersection of Osharskaya Street and Voznesenskaya (Dvoryanskaya, later Oktyabrskaya) Street, but this idea was abandoned during the urban planning changes of 1834-1839 in favor of the already existing Varvarskaya Street.
Connection with well-known people
House No. 2 on Oktyabrskaya Street was where Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836-1861) — Russian literary critic, poet, and revolutionary democrat, a native of Nizhny Novgorod — spent his childhood and youth. A museum was later opened in this house.