Karla Marks Street is a street in the Central District of the city of Kursk . The street runs from south to north: from Perekalsky Square to the city’s border along the Moscow-Simferopol highway ; has a length of 5.2 km. The name was given in 1918 to the former 1st Street Highway in honor of the founder of scientific communism , the leader of the international working-class movement Karl Marx (1848-1883). Simultaneously with the renaming in 1918, Romanovskaya Street was also included in Karl Marx Street, which now corresponds to the section of the modern Karl Marx Street from the intersection with Nikitskaya Street to the north. Until 1905, 1st Shosseynaya Street was called Shosseynaya Street [1] [2] .
| Karl Marx Street | |
|---|---|
| general information | |
| A country |  Russia |
| City | Kursk |
| District | Central |
| Length | 5.2 km |
| Former names | Southern part: 1st Highway (until 1918), Highway (until 1905); Northern part: Romanovskaya (before 1918) |
| Name in honor | |
| Postcode | 305004, 305014, 305021, 305029, 305033 |
Content
Notable buildings and structures
On the odd side
Kursk State Medical University (№ 3)
| Object of cultural heritage, object number 4600558000 |
On the even side
Temple of the Great Martyr George the Victorious (No. 76-b)
Three-tiered Orthodox church, part of the memorial complex "Kursk Bulge". It was conceived as a monument to the soldiers killed in the battles on the Kursk Bulge , laid in 1998 on the 55th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk . Construction by the project of Kursk architects Valery Mikhailov and Pavel Pakhomov was completed in 2008, the temple was consecrated on October 5, 2008. The temple is a church-bell tower with a total height of about 47 meters, built of monolithic reinforced concrete , with the construction used decorative elements of a composite classical order with a complex plasticity of the walls and columns and porticos protruding against their background. The high basement of the building is trimmed with dark brown granite slabs. The temple is crowned with a gilded dome in the form of a crown [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] .
Notes
- ↑ Karl Marx Street // Kursk. Local history dictionary reference book. - Kursk: UMEX, 1997. - p. 160. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89365-005-0 .
- ↑ V. V. Levchenko, T. A. Mane. K. Marx Street // Meeting with Kursk. Guide-directory. - Kursk: Kursk, 1993. - p. 35. - 175 p. - 25 000 copies
- ↑ Temple of the Great Martyr George the Victorious . The official site of the Kursk diocese . Kursk Diocese (2012). The appeal date is February 3, 2014.
- ↑ The Church of St. George the Victorious Consecrated in Kursk . Official site of the Mayor of Kursk and the Kursk City Assembly (2008). The appeal date is November 19, 2011. Archived May 17, 2012.
- ↑ The Church of St. George at the Kursk Bulge memorial on the website "Temples of Russia".
- ↑ Temple of the Great Martyr George the Victorious . The shrine of the land of Kursk . Kursk Regional Scientific Library. N.N. Aseeva (2011). The appeal date is February 3, 2014.
- ↑ Stepanov V.B. Kursk city guide. Book 3. Perekalsky Square. The bell-tower of St. George the Victorious . Kursk pre-revolutionary (08/05/2009). The date of circulation is January 8, 2011. Archived May 17, 2012.
Literature
- Karl Marx Street // Kursk. Local history dictionary reference book. - Kursk: UMEX, 1997. - p. 160. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89365-005-0 .
- Levchenko V. V., Griva, T. A. Ul. K. Marx / / Meeting with Kursk. Guide-directory. - Kursk: Kursk, 1993. - p. 35. - 175 p. - 25 000 copies
Links
- Stepanov V. B. Kursk city guide. Book 3. Perekalsky Square. Street Karl Marx . Kursk pre-revolutionary (08/05/2009). The appeal date is September 21, 2013.
- Stepanov V. B. Kursk city guide. Book 3. Perekalsky Square. Again down the street K. Marx . Kursk pre-revolutionary (08/05/2009). The appeal date is September 21, 2013.