Svetloyarskaya Street is a street in the Sormovo District of Nizhny Novgorod that has existed since the 1930s. It is located near Svetloyarskoye Lake, from which it takes its name.[1]
History and Buildings
Before the territory began to be actively developed, pines, spruces, junipers, birches, and aspens grew where the present-day buildings stand; mushrooms and wild strawberries were also found there. The appearance of the street began to change after the construction of the first silicate plant in Sormovo; from about that time it began to be built up actively.[1] In the 1960s the courtyards were surrounded by two-story barracks of the "zasypushka" type (frame buildings with insulating fill), which were gradually demolished. The main brick buildings of 2 to 4 stories appeared in the late 1950s (beginning in 1958) and over the course of the 1960s; at the end of the Brezhnev era, nine-story buildings also went up on the street.[1] Today the street has 52 buildings.[1]
The Name and the Lake
The street is named after nearby Lake Svetloyarskoye. The lake appeared relatively recently, in the 1950s, on the site of a former quarry of the silicate plant: the pit filled with groundwater from springs that had been exposed at its bottom. The name of the lake itself alludes to the famous Lake Svetloyar, the deepest in Nizhny Novgorod Region, steeped in legend and a site of pilgrimage.[1] Svetloyarsky Park around the lake was established in the early 1970s and landscaped for the 750th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod in 1971; in 2013 the beach on the lake officially became part of the city's recreation zone.[1]
Svetloyarskaya Street is crossed by Mokrousov Street, in the area of Lake Svetloyarskoye.[1]
Notable Sites
Building No. 1 houses an ambulance substation, established in Sormovo in 1926. Building No. 7 houses the Nikolay Gogol Library, presumably opened in 1927.[1]
Transportation Infrastructure
The city administration plans to build a viaduct over the railway tracks leading to Svetloyarskaya Street, as part of a bypass road relieving Kominterna Street. The preliminary cost of the project was estimated at roughly 2 billion rubles. According to the designers' plan, the new highway is to run from Burnakovskoye Highway, cross Kominterna Street, and carry traffic out of the city over the viaduct. Valery Moiseev, head of the Sormovsky District administration, described the intersection at Svetloyarskaya Street as "the sorest spot": closures of the railway crossing caused traffic jams many kilometers long, consisting of hundreds of cars.[1]
Sources
- sormbibl.wordpress.com — Svetloyarskaya Street — Sormovo, Familiar and Unfamiliar
- eda-russkaja-vypechka.clients.site — Russian Food and Baked Goods
- nn.sutochno.ru — 1-room apartment for daily rent, Nizhny Novgorod, Svetloyarskaya Street, 5, listing 1933825 — Sutochno.ru