Stepan Razin Street is a street in the Sormovo District of Nizhny Novgorod. It is located in the postal zone with the index 603054; geographic coordinates: 56.355993° N, 44.080735° E.[1] It runs parallel to Kultury and Lev Tolstoy streets; before being renamed, the passages that make it up were called the 2nd and 3rd Lines of Peski.[2]
Location
The street is in Nizhny Novgorod Region (the region's vehicle code is 52, 152), in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Sormovo District.[1]
Name
The street is named after Stepan Timofeyevich Razin (d. 1671), a Don Cossack who led a major uprising of peasants and Cossacks in Russia in 1670–1671.[2]
Sources
- ruskarty.ru — Stepan Razin Street on the map of the city of Nizhny Novgorod (archive)
- history.wikireading.ru — L. L. Trube. Streets of the City of Gorky — Sormovo District (archive)