Renaming of Streets and Squares in Nizhny Novgorod

Over the past century and a half the streets, squares and lanes of Nizhny Novgorod have changed their names several times, and almost every street in the historic centre bears today a different name from the one it was born with. Church and estate names were replaced after 1917, villages absorbed by the city brought their own names, some streets merged, some disappeared along with their buildings. Below is how the earlier names took shape, in what waves they were replaced, and a full list of the objects with their former names.^[1]^[2]

Where the old names came from

The city's pre-revolutionary toponymy rested on a few simple foundations, and the first of them is churches. Named after churches were Blagoveshchenskaya, Voznesenskaya, Nikolskaya and Tikhonovskaya streets, Uspensky Lane, and Alexandro-Nevskaya, Zhivonosnovskaya, Pokhvalinskaya and Sergiyevskaya streets. Such a name pointed not to an idea but to a landmark: the street led to a church, and that was enough.^[1]^[3]

The second foundation is the occupation of the residents. Kanatnaya (today Korolenko), Kozhevennaya, Uzkozavodskaya, Gotmanskaya (today Kostina), Novo-Soldatskaya, Staro-Soldatskaya and Napolno-Soldatskaya streets were named after who lived on them and what they did for a living.^[1]^[4]

The third is terrain and position. Osypnaya (today Piskunova), Zelenskaya, Pesochnaya, Napolno-Monastyrskaya and Napolno-Vokzalnaya, Nizhne-Okskaya and Verkhne-Bazarnaya described the place: by the escarpment, out in the field, below the hill, by the market.^[1]^[3]

The outskirts, on the other hand, received not names but numbers: the city had 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sibirskaya streets, 6th and 7th Lines, 10th and 11th Lines — the usual way of naming rapidly growing sloboda development.^[1]

The first wave: church and estate names

After 1917 it was above all names of two kinds that were replaced — church names and those pointing to social estate or authority. The replacement was rarely arbitrary: the new name usually argued directly with the old one. Dvoryanskaya (Nobles') became Oktyabrskaya, Tsarskaya became Sovnarkomovskaya, Elizavetinskaya became Kommunisticheskaya, and Ostrozhnaya, that is the street by the prison ostrog, became Svobody (Freedom) Street.^[1]^[5]

Church names went the same way: Blagoveshchenskaya became Chernigovskaya, Tikhonovskaya became Ulyanova Street, Pokhvalinskaya became Zalomova Street, Zhivonosnovskaya became Kozhevennaya, Alexandro-Nevskaya became Barrikad Street, and Uspensky Lane became Pochtovy.^[1]^[5]

Some of the replacements carried over to a street the name of a person connected with the city or with the revolutionary events: Kanatnaya became Korolenko Street, Osypnaya became Piskunova Street, Martynovskaya became Semashko Street, Kizevetterskaya became Frunze Street, Sofronovskaya Square became Markin Square, Zelenskaya became Pozharsky Street, and Napolno-Vokzalnaya became Filchenkov and Dolgopolov streets.^[1]^[6]

Villages that entered the city

The most widespread case of a change of name is not the renaming of a street but the absorption of a village by the city. As it expanded, Nizhny Novgorod took in entire villages, and their buildings received city addresses.^[1]^[2]

This is seen most vividly in Gordeyevka. About thirty of today's streets were previously listed simply as "Gordeyevka": before it joined the city, addresses here were not by street but by the name of the settlement itself. Today this place holds Andizhanskaya, Astrakhanskaya, Belgorodskaya, Volochayevskaya, Gomelskaya, Irkutskaya, Krasnoyarskaya, Kronshtadtskaya, Kurskaya and Ladeynaya streets — the quarter was given names after cities of the country all at once.^[1]

The same trace is left by repeated village names. The former name "Novaya" occurs for sixteen streets, "Shkolnaya" and "Kooperativnaya" for eight, "Polevaya" for six, and "Sadovaya", "Kolkhoznaya" and "Vysokovo" for five each. A village could have one Polevaya and one Shkolnaya, but the city, having taken in a dozen villages, ended up with a dozen identical names and had to tell them apart.^[1]

Mergers and consolidations

Not every change of name was a renaming in the strict sense: several streets could merge into one. Dolzhanskaya Street gathered up the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sibirskaya; Priokskaya took in the 10th and 11th Lines; Dal Street the 6th and 7th Lines; Vokzalnaya the 4th and 5th.^[1]^[2]

In such cases it was not only the name of the object that changed but also its length, and the former names refer to stretches that no longer exist as streets in their own right.^[1]

Chains of names

No fewer than one hundred and forty-nine streets and squares of the city changed their name more than once. Such chains reveal a sequence of decisions rather than a single act.^[1]

Minin and Pozharsky Square was Blagoveshchenskaya, Verkhne-Bazarnaya, Seminarskaya and Sovetskaya. Chernigovskaya Street was Nizhnyaya Blagoveshchenskaya, Blagoveshchenskaya and Nizhne-Okskaya. Pozharsky Street was Zelenskaya, Nikolskaya and Osoaviakhimovskaya. Kozhevennaya Street was Verkhne-Zhivonosnovskaya, Zhivonosnovskaya and Demyan Bedny Street.^[1]^[5]

A separate group is made up of the returns of historical names: Sverdlov Street became Bolshaya Pokrovskaya once again, Gorkovskaya became Nizhegorodskaya, and Mayakovsky Street became Rozhdestvenskaya.^[1]^[6]

Vanished streets

A hundred and fifty streets and lanes listed in the city directory of 1972 are not to be found on the modern map. The directory described a city a considerable part of which consisted of private housing; as it was built up with microdistricts, whole blocks were demolished, and streets disappeared along with the houses — Avtomobilnaya, Blochnaya, Karkasny Lane, Lechebnaya, Kalanchevskaya, Rulevaya.^[1]

These names cannot be verified against a present-day address: they have survived only in the printed directories of their own time and are given below as a separate list.^[1]

Streets and squares existing today

A list of the objects with their former names. The district is given according to the modern division of the city. Objects that have a separate article in the encyclopedia are marked with links.^[1]^[2]

Current name	Former names	Type	District
Abrazivnaya	Stavropolskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Avtorskaya	Pushkina	street	Avtozavodsky
Azovskaya	Stary settlement	street	Prioksky
Ayvazovskogo	Stakhanovskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Akademicheskaya	Internatsionalnaya	street
Alma-Atinskaya	Berezovskaya	street	Leninsky
Angarskaya	Amurskaya	street	Leninsky
Andreeva	Kalinina	street	Sormovsky
Ankudinovskoye Highway	Ankudinovskaya road	highway	Prioksky
Arkticheskaya	Novaya, Shchitkovy settlement	street	Leninsky
Armeysky	Sporny	lane	Sormovsky
Arsenyeva	Krenkelya	street	Prioksky
Artelnaya	Kirgizskaya	street	Sovetsky
Artemovskaya	Artemovsky	street	Kanavinsky
Arkhangelskaya	Svobodnaya, Svobody	street	Kanavinsky
Ashkhabadskaya	Artilleriyskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Aerodromnaya	Aerodromskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Bazarnaya	Bazarnaya 2nd	street	Sormovsky
Balakireva	Composer Balakireva	street	Leninsky
Balakhninskaya	Zheleznodorozhnaya	street	Sormovsky
Balkhashskaya	Balkhashsky	street	Sovetsky
Baranova	Barachny settlement	street	Moskovsky
Anri Barbyusa	Karla Marksa	street
Barnaulskaya	Perekrestnaya	street	Moskovsky
Barrikad	Aleksandro-Nevskaya, Barrikadnaya	street	Sormovsky
Batareynaya	Kommunalnaya	street	Sormovsky
Baumana	Pervomaevka, Bolshaya	street	Leninsky
Academician Bach Street	Rakoshi	street
Begovaya	Voroshilova	street	Sormovsky
Bezlesnaya	Polevaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Bezrukova	Krasnoarmeyskaya, Kombaynovskaya	street
Belinskogo	Napolno-Monastyrskaya, Napolno-Zamkovaya	street	Sovetsky
Belozerskaya	Naberezhnaya	street	Sormovsky
Belomorskaya	Krasnopartizanskaya	street	Sormovsky
Beringa	Ponyukhovaya	street	Sormovsky
Bestuzheva	Transformatornaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Biyskaya	Nekrasova	street	Moskovsky
Blagoveshchenskaya Square	Nizhnyaya Blagoveshchenskaya square	square	Nizhegorodsky
Blyukhera	Gvardeyskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Bodaybinsky	Bodaybinskaya	lane	Kanavinsky
Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street	Lyadova	street	Nizhegorodsky
Bolshaya Pokrovskaya	Sverdlova, Yakova Sverdlova	street	Nizhegorodsky
Bolshaya Pochinkovskaya	Bubnova	street	Sormovsky
Bolshevistskaya	Novonaberezhnaya	street	Sormovsky
Borovaya	Lugovaya	street	Sormovsky
Borskaya	Zelenaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Bredikhina	Lizy Chaykinoy	street	Sovetsky
Bulavina	Novaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Academician Vavilova	Lenina	street
Vaygach	Slobodka, Vaygachskaya	lane	Leninsky
Vaneeva Street	Slastyoninskaya, Opernaya, Vologodskaya, Estonskaya	street	Sovetsky
Varvarskaya Street	Figner (until 1988)	street	Nizhegorodsky
Vasenko	Komsomolskaya	street	Sormovsky
Vasilyeva	Vostochnaya	street
Vasnetsova	Kulturnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Vatutina	Fizkulturny	street	Avtozavodsky
Vakhitova	Maly Ilinsky, Troitsky	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Vakhtangova	Krasina	street	Sormovsky
Vitebskaya	Kingiseppa	street	Kanavinsky
Vladivostokskaya	Voroshilova	street	Avtozavodsky
Vozrozhdeniya	Vorobyeva	street	Leninsky
Vokzalnaya street	4th and 5th lines	street	Kanavinsky
Volodarskogo	Sanokhtinskaya, Petropavlovskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Volochilnaya	Gvozdilnaya	street	Leninsky
Volkhovskaya	Liteynaya 2nd	street	Sormovsky
Vorovskogo Street	Arkhangelskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Voronikhina	Narvskaya	street	Leninsky
Vorotynskaya	Klevernaya	street	Leninsky
Vosstaniya	Glukhaya	street	Sormovsky
Vrachebny	Bolnichny	lane	Kanavinsky
Vrubskaya	Urenskaya	street	Sovetsky
Vtorchermeta	Krolchatnik	street	Kanavinsky
Vuzovskaya	Frunze	street	Sormovsky
Vyaznikovskaya	Levanevskogo	street	Kanavinsky
Vyazovskaya	Sholokhova	street	Leninsky
Gagarina	Arzamasskomu, Arzamasskoye, Inzhenernaya, Yaltinskaya and Krinova, Myzinskoye, Voroshilovskoye, Krinova	street	Prioksky
Gazonnaya	Sadovaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Arkadiya Gaydara	Shkolnaya	street
Garshina	Predtechenskaya, Blagoveshchenskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Gvozdilnaya	Novaya	street	Leninsky
Geyne	Aralskaya	street	Sovetsky
Gertsena	Sadovaya	street
Glinki	Vorobyeva	street	Moskovsky
Gnilitskaya	Kirova	street	Avtozavodsky
Gogolya	Telyachya, Telyachy	street	Nizhegorodsky
Golovnina	Gazonnaya, Gazonny	street	Sovetsky
Goncharova	Novaya, Shchitkovy settlement	street	Leninsky
Gordeevskaya	Gordeevka village, Bolshaya, Krasnogo Gruzchika, Kosareva	street	Kanavinsky
Gorokhovetskaya	Strelochnikov	street	Kanavinsky
Gorochnaya	Serova	street	Kanavinsky
Maksima Gorkogo	Polevaya and Posadskaya, Novaya, Arestantskaya, Novo-Bazarnaya	street
Granitny	Petropavlovsky	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Grekova	Novaya stroyka, Konechnaya	lane	Leninsky
Griga	Stankozavodskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Anatoliya Grigoryeva	Gordeevka, Lyskovskaya	street
Grodnenskaya	Shchepnaya	street	Kanavinsky
Gruzinskaya	Bolotov, Gruzinsky	street	Nizhegorodsky
Guryevskaya	Astrakhanskaya	street	Leninsky
Dalya	Svobody, 6th and 7th lines	street	Kanavinsky
Dargomyzhskogo	Pryadilnaya	street	Leninsky
Dekabristov	Vorovskogo	street	Kanavinsky
Deputatov	Strakhovaya	street	Moskovsky
Derzhavina	Pushkina	street	Avtozavodsky
Detdomovskaya	Bolshoy Kozinsky, Detdomovsky	street	Sormovsky
Dzhambula	Stroitelnaya	street	Moskovsky
Diksona	Proletarskaya	street	Leninsky
Dobrovolcheskaya	Gerbovaya	street	Moskovsky
Dobrolyubova Street	Mironositskaya, Nizhegorodskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Dokuchaeva	Bebelya	street	Kanavinsky
Dolgopolova Street	Novinskaya, Napolno-Vokzalnaya street	street	Kanavinsky
Dolzhanskaya Street	Sibirskaya 2, 3rd Sibirskaya street, 1st Sibirskaya street, 2nd Sibirskaya street	street	Kanavinsky
Dubensky	Dubenskaya	lane	Sormovsky
Dunaeva	Yuryevskaya	street	Sovetsky
Dyakonova Street	Zapadnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Yelkhovskaya	Yelkhovka	street
Yerevanskaya street	Voskresenskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Yermaka	Yermaka Timofeevicha	lane	Leninsky
Zhdanova	Zhdanovskaya	avenue
Zhirkombinata	Klimovskaya, Salolinskoye	highway	Kanavinsky
Zhukovskogo	Potanina	street	Kanavinsky
Zhurova	Kooperativnaya	street	Kanavinsky
Zabolotnaya	Zaozernaya	street	Sormovsky
Zagorodnaya	Kolkhoznaya	street	Prioksky
Zalomova	Pokhvalinskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Zamkovaya	Teatralnaya	street	Leninsky
Zapadny town	Zapadny settlement, Zapadnaya	street	Sovetsky
Zaporozhskaya	Gordeevka	street	Kanavinsky
Zvezdinka Street	Gogolevsky, Zvezdinskaya, Novaya square	street	Nizhegorodsky
Zelensky Congress	Zeleyny	descent	Nizhegorodsky
Zelenkhozovskaya	Pitomnikovskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Zemledelcheskaya	Sadovaya, Vysokovo	street	Sormovsky
Zemlyanichnaya	Lesnaya	street
Zemlyachki	Lenina, Vysokovo	street	Sormovsky
General Zimina	Shvernika, Batayskaya	street
Vasiliya Ivanova	Velikoovrazhnaya	street
Ivanovsky	Kremlevsky	descent	Nizhegorodsky
Ilinskaya	Bolshoy Yamskoy, Krasnoflotskaya, Markova Krasnoflotskaya street, Belilnikova Krasnoflotskaya street, Ansambl Krasnoflotskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Ilmenskaya	Baykalskaya	street	Leninsky
Industrialny	Kazachikha—Knyazhikha, Voroshilova, Voroshilovsky	lane	Moskovsky
Internatsionalnaya	Aleksandrovskaya	street	Kanavinsky
KIMa	Svobody, Koposovo	street	Sormovsky
Kazanskaya Embankment	Verkhnesoldatskaya, Krasnoarmeyskaya, Chapaeva, Romodanovskaya	embankment	Nizhegorodsky
Kazansky descent	Staraya Sennaya square	descent	Nizhegorodsky
Kazarmenny lane	Garnizonny lane	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Kazbeksky	Grebeshkovsky	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Kalashnikova	Slobodka, Donskaya	street	Sormovsky
Kaliningradskaya	Zelenaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Kamchatsky	Pozharny	lane	Kanavinsky
Kanavinskaya	Kuznechnaya, Babushkina	street	Kanavinsky
Karakumsky	Trudovoy 2	lane	Leninsky
Karelskaya	Yuryevskaya, Kleverny, Karelsky	street	Sovetsky
Karpinskogo	Sovetskaya	street	Sormovsky
Kakhovskaya	Zarya sotsializma	street	Leninsky
Kashirskaya	Polevaya	street	Leninsky
Keramichesky	Keramicheskaya	lane	Sormovsky
Kirova	Troitskaya, Novaya	street
Kirovskaya	Oboronnaya	street	Leninsky
Kislovodskaya	Torfyanaya	street	Leninsky
Klenovaya	Polevaya	street	Sormovsky
Klimovskaya	Salolinskoye	street	Kanavinsky
Klyuchevaya	Gordeevka	street	Sovetsky
Kovalikhinskaya	Gorkogo	street	Nizhegorodsky
Kovalikha Ravine	Kovalikhinsky ravine	passage
Kozhevennaya Street	Verkhne-Zhivonosnovskaya, Zhivonosnovskaya, D. Bednogo, Verkhnyaya Zhivonovskovskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Kozhevenny	Ivanovskaya, Ivanovsky	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Kolomenskaya	Kolkhoznaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Kosmonavta Komarova Street	Slesarnaya	street
Kominterna	Sormovskaya Bolshaya road, Balakhninskaya road, Bolshaya	street	Sormovsky
Kommunalnaya	Novatorskaya	street	Moskovsky
Kommunisticheskaya Street	Yelizavetinskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Koposovsky	Koposovskaya	lane	Sormovsky
Korolenko Street	Kanatnaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Korotky lane	Korotkaya street	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Zoi Kosmodemyanskoy	Krupskaya	street
Kostina Street	Gotmanovskaya, Gotmanskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Krasnaya	Millionnaya	street	Sormovsky
Krasnodontsev Street	Pionerskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Krasnoznamennaya	Pobedy	street	Leninsky
Krasnokamskaya	Krasnokamsky	street	Kanavinsky
Krasnoselskaya Street	Krestovozdvizhenskaya, Nekrasova	street	Nizhegorodsky
Krasnoetnovskaya	Etnovskaya	street	Leninsky
Krasny pakhar	Krasnogo pakharya	street	Moskovsky
Krasnykh zor	Knyazhikhinskaya	street	Moskovsky
Krovelny	Krovelnaya	lane	Sormovsky
Krutoy	Uspensky, Spartakovsky, Svobody, Koposovo	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Kuzmina	Turgeneva	street	Sormovsky
Kuybysheva	Vorovskogo	street	Moskovsky
Kungurskaya	Ordzhonikidze	street	Sormovsky
Kurgansky	Kurganskaya	lane	Kanavinsky
Kurchatova	Berezovskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Kutuzova	Dalnevostochnaya	street	Leninsky
Larina	Vostochny	street	Prioksky
Levinka	Levinka settlement	street	Moskovsky
Lenina	Bazarnaya, Sobornaya, Rozhdestvenskaya, Voznesenskoy-Sadovaya, Kupecheskaya, Aleksandrovskaya, Novo-Moskovskaya, Entuziastov, Avtozavodskoye	square
Leskova	Makarikhi, Pushkina	street	Avtozavodsky
Lesosechnaya	Lesnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Litvinova	Pesochnaya	street	Kanavinsky
Literaturnaya	Lenintsev	street	Kanavinsky
Lobachevskogo	Sovetskaya, Sovetsky, Mathematician Lobachevskogo	street	Moskovsky
Lokomotivnaya	Pecherskaya	street	Sormovsky
Lotsmanskaya	Geroev Khasana, Khasanovskaya	street	Leninsky
Luganskaya	Novy settlement	street	Prioksky
Ludilny	Kuteyny	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Lunskaya	Koposovo settlement	street	Sormovsky
Luch settlement	Beshentsevskaya Ridge	street
Lyshnova	Polevaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Lyadova	Monastyrskaya, By the Krestovozdvizhensky Monastery, Kazanskoye Cemetery, Bolshaya Pecherskaya	square	Sovetsky
Lyakhova, Hero of the Soviet Union	Uglichskaya	street
Magadanskaya	Mikoyana	street	Leninsky
Magnitnaya	Vysokovo settlement	street	Sormovsky
Magnitogorskaya	Gordeevka	street	Kanavinsky
Maykopskaya	Lysenko	street	Avtozavodsky
Mayskaya	Vesennyaya	street	Moskovsky
Admiral Makarova	Chapaeva	street
Malaya Pokrovskaya Street	Vorobyeva	street	Nizhegorodsky
Maloetazhnaya	Arkhitekturnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Malyshevskaya	Kooperativnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Manufakturnaya	Manafakturnaya	street	Kanavinsky
Marata	Naberezhnaya, Oka River	street	Kanavinsky
Markina	Sofronovskaya (until 1964)	square	Nizhegorodsky
Karla Marksa	Voznesensky	street
Maslyakova Street	Pryadilnaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Matrosskaya	Darvina	street	Leninsky
Mayakovskogo	Rozhdestvenskaya, Kooperativnaya	street
Meditsinskaya Street	Medgorodok	street	Sovetsky
Mednoliteynaya	Proletarskaya, Vysokovo	street	Sormovsky
Melitopolskaya	Kharkovskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Mendeleeva	Aleksandra Ulyanova	street	Leninsky
Metallistov	Starye baraki	street	Kanavinsky
Metro	Kooperativnaya, Vysokovo	street	Sormovsky
Mineralnaya	Novopolevaya	street	Sormovsky
Minina Street	Zhukovskaya (until 1867), Sovetskaya, Universitetskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Minina and Pozharskogo	Blagoveshchenskaya, Verkhne-Bazarnaya, Seminarskaya, Sovetskaya	square	Nizhegorodsky
Michurina	Komsomolskaya, Michurinskaya	street	Leninsky
Mogilevicha	Novosoldatsky, Kommunistichesky, Novo-Soldatskaya street	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Molodaya gvardiya	Deputatskaya	street	Leninsky
Molodezhny Avenue	Zhdanova	avenue	Avtozavodsky
Mosina	Karkasnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Moskovskoye	Moskovskaya	highway	Moskovsky
Murashkinskaya	Murashkinsky	street	Kanavinsky
Myshyakovskaya Street	Komitetskaya 2	street	Sormovsky
Navashinsky	Bondarny	lane	Kanavinsky
Nadezhdinskaya	Gordeevka	street	Prioksky
Admiral Nakhimova	Stakhanovskaya	street
Ulitsa Nevzorovykh	Mininskaya	street	Sovetsky
Nezhinsky	Kozmodemyansky	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Nesterova Street	Bolnichnaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Neftegazovskaya	Shkolnaya, Burnakovka	street	Moskovsky
Nizhegorodskaya Street	Ivanovskaya, Ilyinku, Gorkovskaya, Polevaya, Voznesenskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment	Volga and Oka	embankment	Nizhegorodsky
Nikolaya Pakhomova	Zheleznodorozhnaya	street	Kanavinsky
Yevgeniya Nikonova	Alpinistov	street
Novgorodskaya	Gordeevka	street	Kanavinsky
Novosoldatskaya	Kommunisticheskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Nogina	Volodarskaya	street	Sormovsky
Obozny	Khabarovsky, Krasny	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Obrubnaya	Liteynaya	street	Sormovsky
Obshchestvenny	Klubny	lane	Sormovsky
Obyedineniya	Kooperativnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Ovrazhnaya	Zhandarmsky ravine	street	Nizhegorodsky
Ogareva	Svobodnaya	street	Leninsky
Odesskaya	Malaya Perekrestnaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Odoevskogo	Khokhlomskaya, Khokhlomsky	street	Sovetsky
Oktyabrskaya Street	Rozhdestvenskaya, Dvoryanskaya, Nikolaevskaya, Uchreditelnogo sobraniya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Oktyabrskaya Street	Rozhdestvenskaya	street
Prospekt Oktyabrya	Stalina, Oktyabrskaya	avenue	Avtozavodsky
Orenburgskaya	Chkalovskaya, Gordeevka	street	Kanavinsky
Orekhovskaya	Agronomicheskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Otechestvennaya	Polyarnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Otradnaya	MOPRa	street	Avtozavodsky
Osharskaya	Krasnogo militsionera, Militsionera	square	Nizhegorodsky
Dmitriya Pavlova	Academician Pavlova	street
Palekhskaya	Avtomobilnaya	street	Leninsky
Pamirskaya Street	Novaya	street	Leninsky
Borisa Panina	Garazhnaya	street
Parashyutistov	Shkolnaya	street	Sormovsky
Patriotov	Pionerskaya	lane	Avtozavodsky
Nikolaya Pakhomova	Zheleznodorozhnaya, Podyemnaya	street
Perekopskaya	Novaya	street	Leninsky
Permskaya	Parkovaya	street	Leninsky
Peski starye	Peski	street
Pesochnaya	Pesochny	street	Sormovsky
Petrozavodskaya	Proletarskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Pecherskaya	Pechery settlement	street
Alyoshi Peshkova	Pirozhnikovskaya, Brodskogo	street
Piskunova Street	Osypnaya, Malaya Pecherskaya, Pechyorke	street	Nizhegorodsky
Plodovy	Botanicheskaya	lane	Sovetsky
Plotnichny	Plotnitsky	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Maksima Gorkogo square	Polevaya, Novo-Bazarnaya, Novaya	street
Maksima Gorkogo square	Novaya square, Polevaya street	square	Nizhegorodsky
Podvodnikov	Tankistov	street	Leninsky
Podgornaya	Stary settlement	street	Prioksky
Pozharskogo	Zelenskaya, Nikolskaya, Zelenskogo, Osoaviakhimovskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Pokrovskogo	Sadovaya, Pokrovskaya	street	Prioksky
Polesskaya	Ozernaya	street	Sormovsky
Polzunova	Kominterna, Krylova street, Vysokovo	street	Sormovsky
Polotskaya	Kooperativnaya, Krivtsova	street	Kanavinsky
Popova, Hero of the Soviet Union	Shosseynaya	street
Postysheva	Khudozhestvennaya	street	Avtozavodsky
The Pokhvalinsky Congress	Oksky, Komsomolsky	descent	Nizhegorodsky
Pochainsky Ravine	Balchug — market	street	Nizhegorodsky
Pochtovy	Uspensky, Kooperativny	lane
Poyushcheva Street	Pochtovaya	street
Przhevalskogo	Gerarda	street	Sormovsky
Privolzhskaya sloboda	Fabrichnaya sloboda	street	Nizhegorodsky
Priokskaya	Stepana Khalturina, Lassalya, 10th and 11th lines	street	Kanavinsky
Priusadebnaya	Priusadebny	street	Nizhegorodsky
Proezzhaya	Kanavnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Proletarskaya	Golodaevskaya, Golodaevka	street	Kanavinsky
Prolomnaya	Okskaya	street	Sovetsky
Prostornaya	Shirokaya	street
Profinterna	Novaya	lane	Leninsky
Profsoyuznaya	Makhalovka, Makhalova	street
Pryamaya	Magistralnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Pulkovskaya	Gordeevka	street	Kanavinsky
Pushkina	Perepletchikova, Perepletchikovskaya	street	Sovetsky
Pyatigorskaya	Shchitkovy settlement	street	Prioksky
Rabfakovskaya	Kolkhoznaya	street	Leninsky
Radistov	Stary settlement	street	Prioksky
Raynisa	Metallurgicheskaya	lane	Leninsky
Mariny Raskovoy	Zheleznodorozhnaya	street
Rakhmaninova	Composer Lista	lane	Kanavinsky
Revolyutsii	Pokrovskaya, Vokzalnaya, Chelyuskintsev	square	Kanavinsky
Revolyutsionnaya	Vladimirskaya, Barrikadnaya	street	Kanavinsky
Relsovaya	Tramvaynaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Reshetnikovskaya	Akulinina, Oktyabrskaya sloboda	street	Nizhegorodsky
Rzhevskaya	Bolotnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Rimskogo-Korsakova	Pushkina	street	Sormovsky
Rovnaya Street	Novy	street	Sormovsky
Rodionova Street	Pechery, Kazanskoye, Ogorodnaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Rodnikovaya	Topolskaya	street	Sovetsky
Rozhdestvenskaya	Mayakovskogo, Vid Mayakovskogo street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Ivana Romanova	Kryukovskaya	street
Rubo	Knizhnaya, Knizhny	lane	Kanavinsky
Borisa Rutkovskogo	Gordeevskaya, Sadovaya, Vozdukhoplavatelnaya	street
Nikity Rybakova	Stalingradskaya	street
Ryabtseva Street	Kazachikha—Knyazhikha, Voroshilova	street
Borisa Samarina	Zhurnalny	lane
Sverdlova	Bolshaya Pokrovskaya	street
Svobody	Bazaar on Ostrozhnaya, Ostrozhnaya, Novaya Sadovaya, Yermolova, Ostrozhnaya square, Uzkozavodskaya, Svobodnaya	street	Sormovsky
Severo-Vostochnaya	Novy settlement	street	Nizhegorodsky
Selskaya	Kolkhoznaya	street	Sovetsky
Semashko Street	Martynovskaya, Birina on Martynovskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Semenovsky	Remeslenny	lane	Moskovsky
Sennaya	Starosennaya, Staraya Sennaya, Narimanova	square	Nizhegorodsky
Sergievskaya Street	Aleksievskaya (until 1854)	street	Nizhegorodsky
Sechenova	Napolno-Pecherskaya, Narkomprosovskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Sivashskaya	Kariny Vasilyevoy	street	Kanavinsky
Signalnaya	Silikatnaya	street	Kanavinsky
Sidorova, Hero of the Soviet Union	Vodomernaya	street
Simferopolskaya	Simferopolsky	street	Kanavinsky
Slavyanskaya	Nemetskaya, Rozy Lyuksemburg	street	Nizhegorodsky
Slobodskaya	Zoi Kosmodemyanskoy	street	Sovetsky
Slutskaya	Vagonnaya	street	Kanavinsky
Sobinovsky	Sporny 4	lane	Sormovsky
Sovetskaya	Moskovskaya, former Moskovskaya, Moskovskoye, Bolshaya Moskovskaya, Aleksandro-Nevskaya street, Pesochnaya street	square	Sovetsky
Sovetskoy Armii	Krasnoarmeyskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Sovnarkomovskaya Street	Tsarskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Sovkhoznaya	Novaya	street	Moskovsky
Sokolnichesky	Lenina, Koposovo	lane	Sormovsky
Solnechnaya	Pesochnaya	street
Sorevnovaniya	Grebeshok, Novonikolskaya, Popova	street	Nizhegorodsky
Sosnovskaya	Sosnovaya	street	Prioksky
Sochinsky	Novy sporny	lane	Sormovsky
Stantsionnaya	Vokzalnaya, Zheleznodorozhnaya and Vokzalnaya	street	Sormovsky
Stakhanovskaya	Oktyabrskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Strakhovaya	Oboronnaya	street	Prioksky
Strelka	Sibirskie Pristani, Aleksandro-Nevskaya street	street	Kanavinsky
Striginskaya	Kirova	street	Avtozavodsky
Suetinskaya	Suetinsky, Ladozhsky	street	Nizhegorodsky
Suzdalskaya	Sovetskaya	street	Leninsky
Sumskaya	Nezhinskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Sukhoputnaya	Novaya, Shchitkovy settlement	street	Leninsky
Suchanskaya Street	Suchansky	street	Avtozavodsky
Taganrogskaya	Gordeevka	street	Kanavinsky
Tallinskaya	Ladozhskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Tarkhanova	Shkolnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Tverskaya	Krasnogo prosveshcheniya, Krasnogo prosveshchentsa	street	Nizhegorodsky
Telmana	Kommunalnaya	street	Leninsky
Teplichnaya	Teplichny	street	Kanavinsky
Tiraspolskaya	Proletarskoy diktatury	street	Leninsky
Tikhoretskaya	Abissinskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Tkacheva	Starosoldatsky, Krasnoarmeysky, Staro-Soldatskaya street	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Tovarny	Sortirovochny	lane	Kanavinsky
Tolbukhina	Popova	street	Avtozavodsky
Topolnaya	Stepnaya	street	Moskovsky
Torgovaya Street	Uzkaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Tormoznaya	Parkovaya	street	Kanavinsky
Torfyanaya	Lenina	street	Sormovsky
Tramvaynaya	Vybornogo	street	Leninsky
Trostnikovaya	Shkolnaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Trubny	Liteyny 2	lane	Sormovsky
Truda	Trudovaya	street	Sormovsky
Trudovaya Street	Spasskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Tungusskaya	Gladkova	street	Sovetsky
Turgayskaya	Pionerskaya	street	Leninsky
Turgeneva	Starosoldatskaya, Napolno-Soldatskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Uzhgorodskaya	Vysokovo, Dvinskaya	street	Sormovsky
Uzbekskaya	Nekrasova	street	Kanavinsky
Academician Blokhina Street	Mistrovskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Alyoshi Peshkova street	Pirozhnikovskaya street	street	Kanavinsky
Yefima Rubinchika street	Kalinin	street
Ivana Romanova street	Kryukovskaya street	street	Kanavinsky
Krasny Zinkoval'shchik Street	12th and 13th lines	street	Kanavinsky
Lunacharskogo street	2nd and 3rd lines	street	Kanavinsky
Morisa Toreza street	Burnakovka, Torfyanaya	street
Novy Usad street	Otrada	street
Prokofyeva street	8th and 9th lines	street	Kanavinsky
Filchenkova the Hero street	Napolno-Vokzalnaya street	street	Kanavinsky
Ulyanova Street	Tikhonovskaya, Novo-Tikhonovskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Universitetsky	Myshkin, Komsomolsky	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Urozhayny	Sergievsky, Uritskogo	lane	Nizhegorodsky
Usadebnaya	Zelenaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Usievicha	Novaya, Shchitkovy settlement	street	Leninsky
Usolskaya	Stalingradskaya	street	Leninsky
Uchitelskaya	Piterskaya	street	Avtozavodsky
Ushinskogo	Avtomobilnaya	street	Moskovsky
F. Engelsa	Verkhnyaya (until 1968)	street
Fabrichnaya	Fabrichny, Krestyanskaya	street	Leninsky
Fedoseenko Street	Kolkhoznaya	street	Sormovsky
Fizkulturnaya	Fizkultury	street	Prioksky
Filchenkova	Napolno-Vokzalnaya, Timiryazeva, Torgovaya	street	Kanavinsky
Flotskaya	Luganskaya	street	Leninsky
Fonvizina	Krivonosa	street	Kanavinsky
Frezernaya	Spornaya	street	Sormovsky
Frunze	Zaychikhe, Kizevetterskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Furmanova	Budennogo	street	Sormovsky
Futbolny	Futbolnaya	lane	Sormovsky
Khersonskaya	Grizodubovaya	street	Leninsky
Kholmistaya	Perekrestnaya	street	Sormovsky
Khokhlomskaya	Kustarnaya	street	Moskovsky
Tsiolkovskogo	Kooperativnaya	street	Sormovsky
Chaykovskogo	Starye zadvorki	street	Sormovsky
Cheboksarskaya	Trudovaya	street	Moskovsky
Cherepovetskaya	Astrakhanskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Cherkassky	Sporny 2	lane	Sormovsky
Chernigovskaya Street	Nizhnyaya Blagoveshchenskaya, Blagoveshchenskaya, Nizhne-Okskaya, Vokzalnaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Chernyshevskogo	Staronikolskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Chigorina	Pamirskaya	lane	Sovetsky
Chitinskaya	Zapadny settlement	street	Leninsky
Chkalova	Vystavochnogo, Vystavochnoye	street	Nizhegorodsky
Chongarskaya	Pamyat vozhdya	street	Kanavinsky
Chugunny	Liteyny 4	lane	Sormovsky
Chugunova, Hero of the Soviet Union	Slesarny	street
Shatskaya	Poselkovaya	street	Sovetsky
Shevchenko	Voskresenskaya, Arkhangelskaya street	street	Nizhegorodsky
Shirokaya Street	Shuberta	street	Nizhegorodsky
Shkolny	Troitskaya	lane
Shlangovy	Pozharny	passage	Kanavinsky
Shlisselburgskaya Street	Elektrifikatsii	street	Leninsky
Shkhunny Lane	Kalinina 2	lane	Sormovsky
Shchelokovskaya	Shchelokovsky farmstead	street	Sovetsky
Shchepkina	Angarskaya	street	Sovetsky
Shcherbakova	Sobornaya, Kirova, Metallicheskaya and Shcherbakova	street	Sormovsky
Elektrovoznaya	Stalinabadskaya	street	Kanavinsky
Engelsa	Verkhnyaya (until 1968)	street	Sormovsky
Yaroslavskaya	Grebeshkovskaya	street	Nizhegorodsky
Yaroshenko Street	Novoparkovaya	street	Moskovsky

Places absent from the modern map

Names as given in the 1972 city directory.^[1]

Name in the 1972 directory	Former names	Type
Abonementnaya	Bubnova	street
Avtomobilnaya	Avtomobilny	street
Akademika Blokhinaya	Mistrovskaya	street
Almazny	Krasny	lane
Altayskaya	Lesnaya	street
Andizhanskaya	Gordeevka	street
Astrakhanskaya	Gordeevka	street
Achinsky	Shkolny	lane
Baeva	Novo-Dvoryanskaya, Kalinina	lane
Balkansky	Balkanskaya	lane
Baltiyskaya	Stsepshchikov	street
Baltiysky	Kalinina 1st	lane
Belgorodskaya	Gordeevka	street
Bekhtereva	Doronina	street
Bibliotechny	Internatsionalny	lane
Blagoveshchenskoy Slobode	Predtechensky	street
Blochnaya	Severnaya	street
Bugristaya	Kozinskaya St. 34, Kozinskaya St. 11, Bugristy	street
Verkhne-Volzhskaya Emb. of A. A. Zhdanov	Upper Emb. of the Volga, Verkhne-Volzhsky Slope	street
Vodoprovodnaya	Zarubaevskaya Dacha	street
Vodopyanova	Bezymyannaya	street
Volochaevskaya	Gordeevka	street
Volyntsy	Arkhangelskoe	street
Vorobyeva	Malaya Pokrovskaya, Vorobyevskaya	street
Geltsa Maksa	Maksima Gorkogo	street
Genkinaya	Pozharskaya	street
Geroya Sovetskogo Soyuza	Peschanaya (until 1965), Gorky Peschanaya Street	street
Gipsovaya	Zapadnaya	street
Gomelskaya	Gordeevka	street
Goncharny	Bazarny, Bazarnaya	lane
Gostiny Ryad	Kooperativnaya	street
Griboedova	Vsesvyatsky	lane
Groznenskaya	Groznaya, Groznogo	street
Daursky	Stratonavta Zille, Krivaya	lane
Degtyarny	Kitaysky 1	lane
Detalnaya	Traktornaya	street
Dzerzhinskogo	Alekseevskaya	street
Divizionnaya	Bolnichnaya 1	street
Dinamovskaya	Vorovskogo	street
Dneprovskaya	Silikatnaya	street
Dovatora	Krasnokamskaya	street
Donskogo Dmitriya	Obshchestvennaya	street
Dorozhny	Shosseyny 4	lane
Ermolovaya	Angarskaya	street
Zhlobinskaya	Budennogo	street
Zagorskogo	Mistrovskaya	street
Zapototskogo	Nizhegorodskaya, Gromova	street
Zelenodolnaya	L. Tolstogo, Lenina	street
Izobretateley	Lineyny, Izobretatelsky	lane
Ilyinsky	Permsko-Ilyinsky	street
Instrumentalnaya	Instrumentalny	street
Irkutskaya	Gordeevka	street
Irtyshsky	Novy	lane
Kavkazskaya	Kulturnaya	street
Kadushina	Pochtovogo	street
Kalanchevskaya	Pozharnaya	street
Karkasny	Kuzovnaya	lane
Kirpichny	Novopechersky	lane
Kozinskaya	Bolshekozinsky	street
Korpusny	Peschany 3, MOPRa	lane
Kosiora	Stoletova	street
Kochegarnaya	Novaya, Shchitkovy Settlement	street
Krasnoflotskaya	Ilyinskaya, Ilyinsky	street
Krasnoyarskaya	Gordeevka	street
Kronshtadtskaya	Gordeevka	street
Krupskaya	Krutikovskaya	street
Krutoyarskaya	Barachny Settlement	street
Kurilsky	Zaryansky	lane
Kurmyshskaya	Dzerzhinskogo	street
Kurskaya	Gordeevka	street
Ladeynaya	Gordeevka, Lodeynaya	street
Levinkovsky	Zheleznodorozhny 1	lane
Lechebnaya	Budennogo	street
Lodygina	Rentgena	street
Makarenko	Pushkinsky	lane
Mamina-Sibiryaka	Gordeevka	street
Marksistskaya	Sverdlovskaya	street
Marsovaya	Shkolny 2nd, Solnechny	street
Matveenko	Komsomolsky	street
Matusovykh Bratyev	Meshchanskaya, Grazhdanskaya, Molokova, Irbitskaya	street
Meshcherskaya	Gordeevka, Romovskaya	street
Modelny	Korotky	lane
Molodezhi	Dubovskaya, Komsomolsky	street
Mostovaya	Shosseyny 3	lane
Murmanskaya	Gordeevki	street
Nevelskaya	Smazchikov	street
Nezavisimosti	Lenina	street
Nerchinskaya	Gordeevka	street
Neftegazovaya	Burnakovka, Shkolno-Revolyutsionnaya	street
Neftyanaya	Kitaysky 2nd	lane
Nikolaya Mikhaylovicha Fedorovskogo	Verkhne-Okskaya	street
Novorossiyskaya	Gordeevka	street
Nyutona	Bazarnaya, Shkolnaya	street
Obukhovskaya	Uritskogo	street
Omskaya	Shchitkovy Settlement	street
Parkovy Settlement	Tolmachevsky Settlement	street
Parovoznaya	Demyana Bednogo Settlement	street
Perekhodny	Ispolkomovsky	lane
Perovskaya	Novaya, Shchitkovy Settlement	street
Pechati	Varya Settlement, Shkolnaya	street
Pionera	Lyskovskaya	street
Pirogova	Varvarsky, Figner	lane
Povorotny	Pesochny 4	lane
Pogruznaya	Sporny 3	lane
Pozharny	Ozetovsky	lane
Poluskatny	Kitaysky 3rd	lane
Posevnaya	Shchitkovy Settlement	street
Potemkina	Radishcheva	street
Privodny	Piramidny	lane
Privolzhsky	Vostochnaya	lane
Prioksky Settlement	Admtsentr 1, Amerikansky Settlement	street
Promyshlenny	Zhelyabova	lane
Prokhodnaya	Rabochy	lane
Pskovskaya	Pulkovskaya	street
Ressorny	Shkolny 5th, Vagonny	lane
Rzhavskaya	Volzhskaya	street
Rudneva	Deputatsky	lane
Rulevaya	Nekrasovsky	lane
Rynochnaya	Bazarnaya 1	street
Ryazansky	Shkolny 3	lane
Sanatorny	Polevoy 1	lane
Sarapulskaya	Lineynaya	street
Sakharsky	Pesochny	lane
Semyonovsky Museum of History and Art	Vaneeva	street
Senyavina	Proletarskaya, Senyavinskaya	street
Sibirskaya	Sibirskaya Pier	street
Slepneva	Peski	street
Snayperskaya	Teatralnaya, Teatralny	street
Sortirovochnaya	Sortirovochny	street
Stavropolskaya	Zhelyabova 2nd, Stavropolsky	street
Stachechny	Pesochny 4	lane
Stepnaya	Proletarsky	lane
Suvorovo	Pozdneye Selo (until 1939)	street
Sukhumskaya	Novy Settlement	street
Tavricheskaya	Kommunalnaya	street
Tagilskaya	Gordeevka	street
Tesny	Uzky	lane
Tekhnichesky	Zhdanova	lane
Timurovsky	Detsky	lane
Tobolskaya	Gordeevka	street
Tokarny	Knyazhikhinsky	lane
Trekh Kommunistov	Bazarnaya	street
Tulskaya	Gordeevka	street
Urenskaya	Gordeevka	street
Uritskogo	Lugovaya, Sergievskaya	street
Fevralskaya	Makaryevsk-Persidskaya, Persidskaya	street
Figner	Varvarskaya	street
Fuchika Yuliusa	Kalinina	street
Khivinskaya	Novaya	street
Khutorskaya	Shkolnaya	street
Tsetkin Klary	Sadovaya 2	street
Chelyabinskaya	Gordeevka	street
Chugunoliteyny	Proletarsky	lane
Shopena	Gordeevka	street
Yakutskaya	Gordeevka	street

Research carried out by the Nizhny Novgorod Encyclopedia on 28 August 2026. Every statement is verifiable against the publications listed in the sources.

Sources

universalinternetlibrary.ru — Универсальная интернет-библиотека — Streets of the city of Gorky: a directory (1972) (archived)
openstreetmap.org — Open map: old_name tags on the streets of Nizhny Novgorod (archived)
opentextnn.ru — Открытый текст — Bolshaya Pecherskaya, a place of interest (archived)
opentextnn.ru — Открытый текст — Zapochainye, a place of interest (archived)
opentextnn.ru — Открытый текст — Kucherova T. Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street (archived)
opentextnn.ru — Открытый текст — Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street, a place of interest (archived)