Lenin Avenue (Samara)

Molokan Garden

From the 20s of the 19th century until 1908, this place (from the modern Pervomaiskaya Street to the modern Osipenko Street) housed the Molokansky Garden ^[2] with fruit and other deciduous trees. It was planted by merchant Akinfiy Prokhorovich Grachev, a Molokan by religion and a former gardener of the landowner Melenkovsky district of Vladimir province P. I. Burtsev (from the village of Levenda ) ^[3] . In 1853, according to the plan of the land surveyor Fedorov, next to this garden, it was planned to create a residential soldier's settlement . A.P. Grachev filed a protest in the Senate , since "the creation of a soldier’s settlement was harmful to the garden." The soldiers’ barracks and the infirmary were built at the beginning of the 20th century closer to the Volga, outside the garden, as can be seen on the plan of 1915 ^[4] .

The garden covered an area of ​​up to 26 acres , had more than 5,000 thousand trees, mainly pears, apple trees, cherries. There were four ponds in the garden. In 1857 A.P. Grachev died, his heirs broke the garden into small plots and sold these plots for residential buildings ^[5] .

Worker Village

In 1908, a new village was formed on the territory of the Molokan Garden. The settlement of this territory continued until 1915-1916. Almost every yard had fruit trees left over from the old garden. ^{[5] The} garden, significantly reduced in size, existed until the 1930s and was then called the “May Day Garden”. ^[6] Individual trees were preserved even until the end of the 1950s, but their fruits were chopped.

Lenin Avenue began to be built up in the late 1970s with multi-story residential buildings (mostly brick) on the even side. The layout of the avenue immediately provided for a large free space, green areas for walking, children's and sports grounds. Unfortunately, Soviet architects could not imagine the need for parking lots; so now a lot of space is occupied under the parking lot on the avenue. ^[7]

• On Lenin Avenue, there are the longest residential buildings in Samara (No. 1 and No. 3), the Samarians call them “Kozlov houses” ^[8] , since they were built for the employees of the Central Design Bureau , which was led by Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov . House number one occupies an entire block from Pervomaiskaya Street to Osipenko Street and has 28 entrances ^[9] separated by arches, and house number three - from Osipenko Street to Chelyuskintsev Street (26 entrances separated by arches). In addition to apartments, in these houses there are (on the ground floors) shops, institutions (housing department, etc.), pharmacies, a sports club, a cafe, etc.
• In house number 3 is the registry office of the October district of Samara. ^[10]
• Samara Regional Universal Scientific Library , the main building at 14A Lenin Ave. The building was built in 1989 ^[11] according to the project of A. P. Gozak specifically for the library. In 2012, the facade of the building was reconstructed, as a result of which the color of the facade was changed: bright red walls with yellow stripes were replaced with calm beige and brown colors.
• “Rasp”, “file”, “grater”, “corn” - popular names ^{[8] [12] of a} gray 20-storey monolithic house in the style of late neobrutalism ^[13] at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Osipenko Street, built in the late Soviet years (then it was the tallest residential building in the city) according to a standard project of architects A. Belokony, O. Tretyakov , V. Brandenburg and engineers A. Lurie and E. Zaferidi. The names came from a kind of facade, consisting of interweaving small “teeth” of balconies arranged in a checkerboard pattern.
• Samara Regional Youth Library 14, Lenin Ave.
• The building of Sberbank in the house number 17. Built specifically for the bank.
• Shopping center "Melody" (house 12A) was built in 2006. ^[fourteen]
• Samara Medical College. Nina Lyapina (80 Polevaya St., located at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Pervomaiskaya Street)
• Lenin Avenue, 2 - an apartment building, on the ground floor of this building was the Akademkniga store.
• Lenin Avenue, 2A - an apartment building, on the ground floor "Dentistry TsSKB", shops, another branch of Sberbank.
• Lenin Avenue, 6 - an apartment building, shops on the ground floor.
• Lenin Avenue, 10 - an apartment building, on the ground floor, Optics eyewear and lens store, one of the oldest shops in the city for these products.
• Lenin Avenue, 12 - an apartment building, on the ground floor, the image studio "Guell".
• The district police department of the Oktyabrsky district is located at 13A.

In recent years, there has been a tendency to build up the free space of the avenue (along pedestrian paths, due to lawns) with stalls, stalls, stalls, which disfigures the appearance of the avenue. ^[15] The district administration, deputies of the city duma and the mayor of the city ^[16] pay attention to this problem, ^[17] as a result of which illegally installed kiosks are demolished. ^[18] But after a while, new ones appear on the site of the demolished ones. The problem has taken the scale of a small-town “war”. ^{[19] [20] [21] [22] [23]}

In 2014, asphalt pavement was replaced with tiles on all sidewalks of the avenue.

• Fountain complex in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Victory at the intersection with Osipenko Street.
• Square named after Vadim Fadeev ^{[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]}
• The memorial complex of the Soyuz launch vehicle and the Samara Cosmic Museum (21 Lenina Ave.)

Story

On July 10, 1895, the opening of the six-gear horse-railway took place, in the vernacular - the horses . One of the lines connected Bolnichnaya (Field) street with the Molokansky garden, Postnikovy ravine and the area of ​​country clearings. Another covered the streets of Nevskaya and Novo-Sadovaya. ^[thirty]

Trams

Tram traffic in this area has existed since 1915 - the tram went along Polevaya street ^[31] , and on July 3 ( June 20 ) 1915 route No. 5 was launched, leading to the Pipe Plant and Postnikov ravine (along modern Novo-Sadovaya street). ^[32]

When designing Lenin Avenue (in the 1970s), it was planned to organize tram traffic along the avenue and tram tracks were even laid (in the mid-1980s), but the rails and sleepers were idle for a long time and served as food for local jokes and rumors.
In 1992, tram traffic from Novo-Sadovaya was transferred to Lenin Avenue. ^[32]
Now on the avenue there are trams of routes 4, 5, 18, 20, 20k, 22, 23.

Buses

Due to the construction of the metro , traffic on Novo-Sadovaya Street is temporarily closed (on the section from Pervomaiskaya Street to Polevaya), so the number of bus routes on Lenin Avenue has increased significantly, and now municipal buses 2, 42, 47, 50 are passing along the avenue ^{[33 ]} and commercial routes 2, 23, 44, 47, 50, 92, 94, 97, 206, 217, 232, 297. ^[33]

Subway

• The Rossiyskaya metro station is located at the very end of Lenin Avenue, at the intersection with Lunacharsky Street. Opened in 2007.
• Alabinskaya metro station is 200 meters from Lenin Avenue (down to the Volga along Osipenko St.). Opened December 26, 2014.

The Toponymic Commission received proposals to rename Lenin Avenue into Alabina Avenue, but so far have not been supported. ^[34]

• Ave. Lenin, 2A, 2B - 443100
• Ave. Lenin, even side (2-16), odd (1-17) - 443110

June 10, 2011 at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Osipenko Street in Samara, a rally "Against police arbitrariness" was held

In 2011, several incidents related to the catastrophically poor condition of the road surface occurred in the city. August 22 on Lenin Avenue during a heavy rain fell into a hole and drowned a car ^[35] , whose driver died in an ambulance. ^[36] On September 4 of the same year, in front of house No. 15, another car began to fall under the asphalt, the driver called the rescue service, and the car was pulled out. ^[37] On October 18, 2016, due to a breakthrough of the heating main, a soil failure occurred, two parked cars Lada Priora and Renault Logan fell into hot water in the formed hole, about a meter deep.

• History of Michurinsky districts
• Lenin Avenue on the Yandex.Panorama service.

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