Kirovgrad street

The street runs from southeast to northwest parallel to Kalinin Street. It starts at the intersection with the Mechanical Engineers and ends at Republican Street ^{[1] [2]} . It intersects with the streets of Red Fighters , Ilyich , Stakhanovskaya , Ordzhonikidze Avenue , streets of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution and the Baku Commissars . Streets Sotsialisticheskaya and Festivalnaya go to the left, Avangardnaya , Lomonosova , Simbirsky pereulok, Sosnovy pereulok, Narodnaya Front street, Zeleny and Krasnopoliansky lanes, Youth Street.

The length of Kirovgrad street is about 2800 meters. The width of the carriageway is about 15 m (two lanes in each direction). The street is a boulevard for its entire duration, but this fact is not reflected in the official name.

There are five traffic lights along the street. On both sides the street is equipped with sidewalks (in some sections they are absent on one or both sides).

The history of Kirovgradskaya Street began in 1928, when the first clearing was cut down in a pine forest up to 100 m wide and more than 2 km long, starting from the current Mashinostroiteley Street towards Lake Shuvakish . According to the project, the street had two one-way carriageways, between which there was an alley with four rows of shrubs and trees, a kind of “northern garden”. Therefore, already in 1929, builders called the street "Sadovaya". The first houses on the street began to appear already in 1928 (these are houses under No. 14, 16 and 18 between Avangardnaya and Krasniy Bortsov Street). A fire station was built at the same time as the apartment buildings (between the streets of Krasniy Bortsov and Ilyich); in the courtyard of the depot, a tower with a bell was built, on which the duty officer was around the clock. In case of fire, the attendant rang the bell. In 1929, near the depot (at the intersection with Krasniy Bortsov Street), a house was built at number 20, which housed the construction department of Uralmashinostroit, but soon it was transferred to the building of the future Central Plant Laboratory (NIOMet). In the mid-1930s, a fire station and a tower were liquidated, and a horse yard was erected in their place ^[3] .

In 1929, at the beginning of the street, chopped houses appeared under No. 2, 8, 10, 12 (currently demolished). Then they built the first paved road on Uralmash, along the facades of houses on Sadovaya, from Mashinostroiteley Street to Ilyich Street. And at the fire station there was the first bus stop in the social city "Uralmash" ^[3] .

Subsequently, the street continued to be built up, first with chopped-up houses (to house No. 28), and then to house No. 42 - with frame houses. The first four-story brick houses on the street were built from 1930 to 1932 under No. 1, 5 and 7 (between the streets of Krasniy Bortsov and Stakhanovskaya). By this time, both carriageways from Mashinostroiteley to the Industry were paved ^[3] .

The street was originally called Sadovaya, but in 1935 it was renamed Kirova Street. But since there was already a street with the same name in another district of Yekaterinburg, in the same year the Uralmash street was renamed Kirovgrad ^[3] . Interestingly, “in colloquial speech” she was often called Kirov about the town ^[4] .

In 1934, landscaping of the boulevard part of the street began: ash, maple, and acacia were planted. The next year, grass was sown ^[3] .

Previously, the pedestrian boulevard on Kirovgradskaya Street from the beginning to the end was fenced with cast-iron gratings along which "neatly trimmed acacia bushes grew a solid wall." As supports for the posts to which the cast-iron grates were attached, rocket shells were used for the Katyushas, ​​which in large numbers remained unclaimed after the war. These gratings were cast in the iron foundry of Uralmashzavod. Then, for unknown reasons, they were dismantled, and at the same time, acacia was cut down ^[4] .

The land in the triangle of Kirovgrad, Ordzhonikidze streets and the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution was not built up. Inside it in 1932 the collective farm market was organized ^[3] .

In the mid-1930s, a secondary school No. 68 and a nursery were built on Kirovgradskaya Street, and in 1938, block-type wooden houses No. 46 and 54 were erected, after which no wooden houses were built on the street. In 1952 and 1953, brick three- and four-story buildings were built under No. 62, 64, 68, 70 and secondary school No. 103, and on the odd side of the street - cinder blocks two- and three-story houses ^[3] .

In 1955, five-story buildings of improved layout appeared on the street, nos. 9, 11 and 13. One of them housed the new Uralmashevsky Znamya cinema with two auditoriums. From 1957 to 1959, the western part of the street was built up: 26 three-story brick houses were built, which the people called “samstroy” (at that time the residents were allowed to build their own homes) ^[3] .

At the end of Kirovgradskaya Street, at the entrance to the Shuvakish Forest Park (Victory Park), a T-34 tank is installed. Previously, the tank stood at the Alexander Nevsky Church in the Green Grove, which was then converted into a museum of local lore. After the church was returned to the Orthodox Church, this tank, made, in all likelihood, in Nizhny Tagil, was at the end of Kirovgradskaya street ^[4] .

Ground public transportation

The street is an important intra-district transport highway . The street carries a fixed-route taxi No. 033.

Nearest underground stations

450 meters east of the beginning of the street is the 1st line station of the Yekaterinburg Metro   Uralmash . Towards the end of the street, there are no planned metro lines.

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