Shchepnaya Square ( Monastyrskaya Square ) is the abolished square in the territory of the modern residential area “ Central ” of the Leninsky administrative district of Yekaterinburg .
| Scree square square Yekaterinburg | ||
| general information | ||
|---|---|---|
| A district of the city | Leninist | |
| Residential area | Central | |
| Former names | Monastery Square | |
It was located in the quarter of modern streets of Kuybyshev , Khokhryakova , Narodnaya Volya and Universitetsky Lane . The southern and part of the western part adjoined the fence of the Novo-Tikhvin nunnery . A building occupied by the Ural Mining Institute established in 1916 was built in the northwest corner of the square in 1911-1913.
Received the appropriate name due to the fact that the square was selling chips , carts, chests, boxes, barrels, sleds, mirrors, wallpaper, etc. Every year, on the day of the icon of Our Lady of Tikhvin , a fair was held on the square.
Nowadays the space of the square is occupied by the sports complex "Youth" .