Sovnarkomovskaya Street is a street in the Kanavinsky District of Nizhny Novgorod, laid out during the Soviet years on land that once belonged to the Nizhny Novgorod Fair.
Location
The street belongs to a group of thoroughfares laid out in Soviet times on the former fairground lands around Main Fair House: together with Dolzhanskaya and Manufakturnaya Street streets, Yarmarochny Proyezd, and Mira Boulevard, it forms the planning framework of this part of the Kanavinsky District. Dolzhanskaya Street (formerly Sibirskaya 2) runs parallel to Sovnarkomovskaya.
Sovnarkomovskaya Street forms one of the boundaries of the area where Lenin Square was laid out in 1968: the square is bounded by Murashkinskaya Street, Sovnarkomovskaya streets, and Manufakturnaya Embankment.
History
Before the revolution, the extensive territory around the Main Fair House was occupied by permanent and temporary trading buildings of the fair, with the number of shops reaching, by approximate estimates, 2,520. The modern street network, including Sovnarkomovskaya, arose on this site only in Soviet times.