Revolution Square (Nizhny Novgorod)

The square appeared almost at the same time as the railway station, in the 1870s.

Title

Previously, the square was called Vokzalnaya because of the former Moscow railway station located next to it. Then, after the rescue operation at the crash site of the Chelyuskin steamer, it was renamed Chelyuskintsev Square. After the Second World War, it was renamed the Revolution Square.

World War II

During WWII, the square, along with the Moscow railway station , was attacked by German aircraft . However, the German pilots missed the target ^[1] . One bomb exploded on the rails, the second - pierced the roof of the house along Chkalov Street, the third - fell near the hospital. In response, volleys of anti-aircraft guns rained down. But they also did not reach the enemy. But the “house” and military warehouse were “knocked out”.

Revolution Square is one of the most visited places in Nizhny Novgorod. A major role is played by the presence of the railway station and the Kanavinsky bus station, from which the main stream of visitors flows.

Buildings

Several large shopping centers are located on Revolution Square: TsUM, Respublika and Chkalov. The central department store is the oldest of them: the building was designed by architects Valentin Rymarenko and Anatoly Zhukov in 1938, and was built after the end of the war (opened April 30, 1954). The second wing was opened in 1995. In the Soviet years, the Central Department Store was the largest center of trade throughout the Gorky region ^[2] .

Near this square there are many routes of urban public transport :

along the Moscow highway

• Social bus routes:
  • No. 3 ( Freedom Square - Minin Square - Lenin Square - Moscow Highway - Geroyev Ave. - Chernyakhovsky St. - Sormovo Center - Krasnoe Sormovo Plant )
  • No. 17 ( Moscow railway station (tunnel) - Moscow highway - Kuzbasskaya street - Beryozovsky settlement )
  • No. 45 ( microdistrict Verkhniy Pechery - Rodionova St. - Minin Square - Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment - Pohvalinsky Congress - Gorky Square - Odessa Street - Moscow Highway - Ryabtseva Street - Yaroshenko St. - Chernyakhovsky St. - etc. Shipbuilders - ZKPD-4 )
  • No. 48 ( Dolgopolova Street - Revolution Square - Moscow Highway - Forest Town - Sortirovochny settlement )
  • No. 57 ( Dubravny village - KIM street - Strelkovaya street - 70 years of October street - Svetloyarskaya street - Tsiolkovsky street - Miroshnikov street - Chaadaev street - Yaroshenko street - Prosveschenskaya street - Geroyev ave. - Moskovskoye highway - Dolzhanskaya street - Akimova street - SEC Seventh heaven )
  • No. 69 ( SEC Seventh Heaven - Dolzhanskaya St. - Moskovskoye Highway - Kuzbasskaya St. - Novikov-Priboy St. - Busygin Ave. - October Ave. - South Highway - South Highway )
  • No. 90 ( Upper Pechery microdistrict - Rodionova St. - Minin sq. - Nizhne-Volzhskaya nab. - Lenina sq. - Moskovskoye Highway - Sormovskoye Highway - Komintern St. - Pochinki - Butyrskaya St. - Novoselskaya St. - Barents St. - Shipbuilders Ave. - ЗКПД-4 )
  • No. 95 ( Dolgopolova Street - Revolution Square - Sovetskaya St. - Moscow Highway - Sormovsky Highway - Komintern St. - KIM St. - Dubravny settlement )
• Trolleybus :
  • No. 8 ( Moskovsky Station - Moskovskoye Shosse - Sormovskoye Shosse - Yakominterna Str. - KIM Str. - Dubravnaya Street )
  • No. 10 ( Lake Meshchersky - Dolzhanskaya St. - Moscow Highway - Gorkovsky Agricultural Complex )
  • No. 15 ( Moskovsky Station - Moskovsky Highway - Geroyev Ave. - Yaroshenko St. - Chaadayev Platform )
  • No. 25 ( Lake Meshchersky - Dolzhanskaya St. - Moscow Highway - Kuzbasskaya St. - Sortirovochny microdistrict )
• Tram :
  • No. 6 ( Moscow Station - Sormovo Center - Yaroshenko Street - Moscow Station )
  • No. 7 ( Moscow railway station - Yaroshenko Street - Sormovo Center - Moscow railway station )
• Minibus taxi : No. T45, T47, 49, T57, 71, 89, 92, 319;

on the area of ​​the Revolution

• Social bus routes:
  • No. 19 ( Vysokovo village - Belinsky St. - Sennaya Square - Minin Square - River Station - Moscow Station - International Street - July Days St. - Lenin Ave. - Zarechnaya metro station - Krasnaya Etna recreation center - Village Dachny )
  • No. 26 ( Dolgopolova Street - Revolution Square - Pohvalinsky Congress - Gorky Square - Gagarin Ave. - Beketova St. - Vaneev St. - Kuznechikha-2 Microdistrict )
  • No. 43 ( Dolgopolova Street - Revolution Square - Pohvalinsky Congress - Gorky Square - Gagarina Ave. - Shcherbinki Bus Station )
  • No. 48 ( Dolgopolova Street - Revolution Square - Moscow Highway - Forest Town - Sortirovochny settlement )
  • No. 61 ( Dolgopolova Street - Lenin Square - River Station - Minin Square - Svobody Square - Vaneeva St. - N. Suslova St. - Brinsky St. - Upper Pechery )
  • No. 66 ( SEC Seventh Heaven - Akimova St. - Revolution Square - July Days St. - Lenin Ave. - Myzinsky Bridge - Gagarina Ave. - Shcherbinki Bus Station )
  • No. 95 ( Dolgopolova Street - Revolution Square - Sovetskaya St. - Moscow Highway - Sormovsky Highway - Komintern St. - KIM St. - Dubravny settlement )
• Minibuses : No. 13, 34, t37, t40, 50, t67, 74, t86, 87;

- along Prokofiev street

• Tram :
  • No. 1 ( Black Pond - Ilyinskaya Street - Komsomolskaya Square - Moskovsky Station );
  • No. 3 ( Moskovsky Station - Komsomolskaya Square - Uspensky St. - Dubki Park );
  • No. 27 ( Tram depot No. 1 - Lapshikha - Osharskaya St. - Belinsky St. - Komsomolskaya Square - Moskovsky Station );
  • No. 417 ( Moscow Station - Igarskaya St. - Lenin Ave. - Kirova Ave. - 52nd quarter ).

Until 2008, there was a trolley bus :

• No. 18 ( Lake Meshchersky - Dolzhanskaya St. - Dolgopolova St. - July Days St. - Lenin Ave. - Cosmonaut Komarov St. - Pamirskaya Street )

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  Area at night: McDonald's , Central Department Store and Metro Office

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  Christmas tree on the square

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  Shopping center "Respublika" and TSUM

• Moscow station
• Nizhny Novgorod Fair