Potemkinskaya street (Nikolaev)

Potemkinskaya - the longitudinal street of old Nikolaev. It started from the turning section of Nikolskaya Street and ended at Sadovaya . Currently, the street runs parallel to Bolshaya Morskaya and stretches from Nikolskaya in the north-west to 1st Military Street in the east, resting against the People's Garden park.

In 1822, police chief Pavel Fedorov proposed to name Birzhenskaya street - from the cabby exchange, by which it passed. However, the Fedorov project was not approved by the military governor of Nikolaev Alexei Greig . In 1835, police chief Grigory Avtonomov called Kupecheskaya Street - according to the Nativity of the Theotokos Cathedral, which was called Merchant. The street passed by the Red Rows (two quarters of row trading houses), where they sold “red goods” - fabrics of different varieties.

In 1890, on the 100th anniversary of Nikolaev, the street was renamed Potemkinskaya - in memory of the founder of Nikolaev. After the revolution, in the 1920s, Potemkinskaya was renamed Plekhanovskaya - in memory of the revolutionary Marxist Georgy Plekhanov . After 1945, Odessa Street, which continued Plekhanovskaya along Sadovaya , was also renamed Plekhanovskaya, changing the numbering of houses for the second time.

Since 1914, a tram runs along Potemkinskaya. Prior to this, since 1904, a horse tram went here. Now part of the tram routes No. 3 (from the Decembrists to the 1st Military) and No. 1 (from Nikolskaya to the Decembrists) runs along Potemkinskaya.

In 1989, on the 200th anniversary of Nikolaev, the street was returned the name Potemkinskaya.

• House No. 27 belonged to the mayor of A. N. Sokovnin .
• In the corner house No. 30 lived the Baroness Renault (1904), an honorary member of the Nikolaev charity.
• On the site of house number 31, on the corner of Pushkinskaya and Potemkinskaya streets, from the day the city was founded, there was a wooden church in the name of St. Nicholas, built by the Greeks. In 1812 the church was dilapidated, and instead of it, the Greeks built in 1813-1817 a new, stone one, on the corner of Faleevskaya and Nikolskaya Streets ("Greek Church"), which still exists today.
• On the next quarter, on the odd side, is the building of the former women's commercial school, which subsequently housed the shipbuilding technical school and the Progress Design Bureau.
• On the corner of Potemkinskaya and Faleevskaya in house number 35, there was a female school, and then a district school (Wald's house in 1892).
• At the address Potemkinskaya, 53 is the Nikolaev Regional Puppet Theater.
• At the corner of Potemkinskaya and Lyagin streets is the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin.
• On the corner of Potemkinskaya and Sobornaya streets there is a memorial plaque in honor of Prince Grigory Potemkin, installed in the summer of 1999 on the initiative and with the financial support of the patron and publisher Valery Karnaukh.
• In the quarter between Sobornaya and Moskovskaya Streets, house No. 57 housed the Petersburg Hotel (1869) B. Seeber, which was blown up during World War II .
• Next to house number 59 is the Heine pharmacy (1904) in the Gothic-Moorish style. Now in this house is also a pharmacy.
• At the address Potemkinskaya, 143a is the Central Library named after M. L. Kropyvnytsky
• Park "People's Garden".

• Kryuchkov, S. S. The history of the streets of Nikolaev: a toponymic guide to the city and its surroundings. - Nikolaev: Possibilities of Cimmeria, 1997. - 160 p.

• I’ll walk along Potemkinskaya ... A cycle of excursions through the streets of Nikolaev “Youth and the Modernity of Hometown”