Sergievskaya Street is one of the oldest in Nizhny Novgorod. Until the General Land Survey of the city in 1784–1787, it wound its way from Plotnichny Lane across Ilyinskaya Street to the monastery of the same name, "the one in Petushkovo." The street is home to House No. 25a, where there were plans to revive the Church of Sergius of Radonezh — in all likelihood, the street got its name precisely in honor of this church. According to the city plan of 1799, it was to be cut straight through as a continuation of Osypnaya Street in the area of Zapochayanye. But the project was never carried out.
The idea was returned to when the plans for Nizhny Novgorod of 1804, 1824, and 1839 were drawn up, but it went unrealized until the middle of the 19th century, since the stretch from Ilyinskaya Street to Lykova Dam had an uneven, "ravine-like" slope. Most importantly, substantial plots of private land (belonging to the Listovs, the Lvovs, and others) had to be acquired by the treasury. In 1852, the architect N. I. Uzhumedsky-Gritsevich drew up a design for routing Sergievskaya Street to Lykova Dam. But it too was shelved "until further consideration" and was included only in the city plan of 1881. After that, Sergievskaya Street took on practically its present-day shape and came out at the slope of Pokhvalinsky Descent.