Sovnarkomovskaya Street is a street in the Kanavinsky District of Nizhny Novgorod, laid out in the Soviet years on territory that once belonged to the Nizhny Novgorod Yarmarka. Before the Revolution the street was called Tsarskaya; in Soviet times it was renamed Sovnarkomovskaya, after the Council of People's Commissars.[1]
Location
The street is part of a group of thoroughfares built in the Soviet period on the former Yarmarka grounds around the Main Yarmarka House: together with Dolzhanskaya Street, Manufakturnaya Street, Yarmarochny Passage, and Mira Boulevard, it forms the planning framework of this part of the Kanavinsky District. The street is about 1,784 meters long; 28 buildings stand along it, and it intersects ten other streets and passages, including Volzhskaya Embankment, Sovetskaya Street, and Yarmarochny Passage.[2] Dolzhanskaya Street (formerly Sibirskaya 2) runs parallel to Sovnarkomovskaya.
Sovnarkomovskaya Street serves as one of the boundaries of the territory on which Lenin Square was laid out in 1968: the square is bounded by Sovetskaya Street, Murashkinskaya Street, Sovnarkomovskaya Street, and Manufakturnaya Embankment.
History
Before the Revolution, the vast territory around the Main Yarmarka House was occupied by the Yarmarka's permanent and temporary trading buildings, which by approximate counts held as many as 2,520 shops. The modern street network, including Sovnarkomovskaya Street, appeared on this site only in Soviet times.
Sources
- gallery.ddt-chkalov.ru — Before the Revolution the street was called Tsarskaya; in Soviet times it was renamed Sovnarkomovskaya, after the Council of People's Commissars.
- nn.ginfo.ru — The street is about 1,784 meters long; 28 buildings stand along it, and it intersects ten other streets and passages, including V