Gagarin Avenue (Kharkov)

The street appeared at the end of the 17th century as a road to Zmiev , later it was called Zmievsk on th Street. At the beginning of the XIX century, the street reached the present Molchanovsky lane and ended in a stone house with a large orchard. In the 1850s, it continued to be built up to the south and reached Molochnaya Street (now Kirov Street), where the city was ending at that time. In 1876, it was paved and became part of the highway to Zmiyov. In the pre-revolutionary period was built slowly.

In Soviet times, the street became a concentration of a number of industrial enterprises: the Orgtekhnika plant, the stocking and jewelry factories, the road machinery plant, etc. A meat processing plant was established on the basis of the former slaughterhouses. In 1928 - 1930, the Osnova Airport was built on the southern outskirts of the city, not far from Zmiyevskaya Street.

On August 23, 1943, the Germans retreated from the city to the southern outskirts and to the airport area, while shelling the center of Kharkov every day with artillery. On the night of August 27-28, it was along Zmiyevskaya Street that the group of General Kempf attempted to recapture the city. They were stopped near the current bus station ( Levada ) and thrown back. Only after this, on August 30, a rally was held in honor of the liberation of Kharkov with the participation of Konev , Zhukov and Khrushchev ^[1] .

In 1961, the street was named after Yuri Gagarin , the world's first cosmonaut, after his flight into space. Since that time, massive housing construction has unfolded on the avenue. On both sides of the avenue, new residential neighborhoods were built.

Unfortunately, old historic buildings were demolished, including a tavern of the end of the 18th century on the corner of Netechenskaya street and the private house of the parents of Academician Barabashov with the observatory built by him on the roof in 1916 (Zmievskaya, 1).

In 2004, the punching of Gagarin Avenue between Avenue and Gamarnik Street was named Vernadsky Street.

At the beginning of the avenue is the metro station of the same name , opened in 1975 . On the avenue there are 3, 5 and 6 trolleybus routes connecting the center with the southern outskirts of the city.

• Monument gear wheel on the corner of st. Vernadsky and Netechensky.
• Yuri Gagarin in a spacesuit , leaving the store on the corner of Vernadsky and Malomyasnitskaya (until 2011), has been in Eco-Market on the second floor since 2011. (Gagarin St. 20-A)
• Station Kharkov-Levada .
• Central Bus Station ( 1958 )
• Flower Clock ( 2008 ). (removed from the avenue in 2011)
• 5th city cemetery (Kharkov)
• Kharkov airport
• A huge portrait of Gagarin on the wall of a 12-storey building
• Covered overhead pedestrian crossing (bridge) behind the intersection of Gagarin avenue and st. Kirov

• Since 2004, the metro station Prospect Gagarin has not a single exit to Gagarin Avenue. All her exits to the street of academician Vernadsky and one to the station Levada .
• This happened because in Soviet times Gagarin Avenue forked from Molchanovsky Lane (bus station): some went right to Rudnev Square (Druzhba bookstore is Gagarin Ave., 1), and the part went straight to the Gymnasium Embankment (then Krasnoshkolnaya).
• Until the end of the 19th century, Zmievskaya Street in the Levada area crossed the second (old) channel of the Kharkiv- Netch river.
• In the area of ​​the present Podolsky bridge there once was Vasilievsky Island on the Kharkiv River.

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  view towards the center

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  the beginning of the avenue near the bus station

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  Vernadskogo street - the former part of the avenue

• Supermarket "Tavria V"
• Metallobaza Harkovmetall-1
• Metallobaza Harkovmetall-2
• Kharkiv meat processing plant
• Supermarket "ATB"
• Supermarket "Target"
• Supermarket "Class"
• Market "Odessa"
• Hypermarket "Metro"
• Hypermarket "Epicenter"

• 13th city hospital
• Children's sanatorium № 9

From North to South:

St. Netechenskaya

St. Malomyasnitskaya

St. Plekhanovskaya

St. Vernadsky

Per. Molchanovsky

St. Nikolai Mikhnovsky

St. Dairy

St. Derzhavinskaya

St. Butlerovskaya

Ride 1st Golden

Ride 2nd Golden

St. Chuguevskaya

Per. Gold

St. Cherry

Per. Reinforcement

St. Verbovaya

Per. Varlamovsky

St. Oboyan

St. Azerbaijani

St. Chestnut

St. Makeevskaya

St. Grain

St. Odessa

Ave. Heroes of Stalingrad

St. Factory

St. Newton

St. Pilchikova

St. Vokzalnaya

St. Debaltsevskaya

St. Lgovskaya

Per. Balakley

St. Batayskaya

St. Ussuriyskaya

St. South Project

St. Sohora

Ave. Lev Landau

Merefyanskoe highway

St. Aerodrome

St. Aeroflotskaya

St. Airplane

St. Nesterova

• JSC "SPAIRO Plus", Ukraine geodetic cartography. Kharkov. City plan. M 1: 20,000 = tenth edition / ed. Vl. Nikolaev - Kharkov: SPAERO Plus, 2009. - 120 p. - not specified copies.

• Gagarin, Yuri Alekseevich

• History of streets and squares of Kharkov
• Kharkov transport