Yanka Kupala Street ( Belor. Vulitsa Yankі Kupala ) is a street in the central part of Minsk . Named in honor of the national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala in 1945, before that it was called Plavskaya, Troitskaya, Police, Naberezhnaya and Proletarskaya [1] .
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| Yanka Kupala Street | |
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| Belor. Vulitsa Yankі Kupaly | |
 View from the initial section of the street towards the intersection with Independence Avenue  A section of street on the left bank of Svisloch | |
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| A country | Belarus |
| City | Minsk |
| Area | Lenin , Partisan , Central |
| Length | 1.58 km |
| Underground | 2 Kupalovskaya , October 1 , 2 Nemiga |
| Electric train | Minsk-Vostochny |
| Trolleybus routes | 12, 29, 40 |
| Bus routes | 24, 57 |
| Route taxi | 1063 |
It starts from the intersection with Pervomaiskaya Street , intersects with the streets of Kirov , Karl Marx , Independence Avenue , the streets of Internatsionalnaya , Kuibyshev and Maxim Bogdanovich . Length - 1580 meters [1] .
On the initial section, on the even side, there is a descent to the Svisloch river (on the other side there is a Gorky park ), then on the even side there is a park named after Yanka Kupala (with a monument to the poet and a literary museum [2] ), then the street crosses Svisloch, then the square named after Marat Kazei and the Paris Commune square . On the odd side, the street is densely built up (among public buildings - the Veteran’s House [3] and the restaurant complex " Zhuravinka " [4] ), on the final stretch (on the other side of the Svisloch), on the odd side are Friendship Alley, Belexpo Exhibition Center [5 ] and the building of the 2nd city clinical hospital [6] . After the end of the street, Storozhevskaya Street begins, as well as Trinity Suburb . Although the street first began to be built back in the 12th – 13th centuries, the present buildings were built after World War II [1] .
Bus number 57 runs along the entire street. Public transport is also represented by buses (24, 177е) and trolleybuses (12, 29, 40) [7] .
Famous residents
- Maxim Lujanin (d. 7)
- Ivan Shamyakin (d. 11)
- Mikhas Kalachinsky (d. 17)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Kupala Yanki Street // Minsk. Encyclopedic reference book. 2nd ed. - Minsk: Belorussian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1983. - S. 211
- ↑ st. Yankee Kupala, 4
- ↑ st. Yankee Kupala, 21
- ↑ st. Yankee Kupala, 25
- ↑ st. Yankee Kupala, 27 (several pavilions)
- ↑ st. Yankee Kupala, 29
- ↑ As of February 2012 (according to the official website of GP Minsktrans )