Vasenko Street (Chelyabinsk)

The street appeared after 1795 under the name Perm Street (Permyatskaya). With the introduction in 1852 of a new city development plan, it was named Marshalovskaya ul. in honor of the Chelyabinsk merchant Ivan Marshalov. Since 1881 - the planned Orenburgskaya street, then just Orenburgskaya. Since February 1920 - the modern name in honor of one of the leaders of the Chelyabinsk Bolshevik organization, Evdokim Vasenko , who headed the Chelyabinsk Committee of the RSDLP in 1917-1918, as well as the city council of workers 'and soldiers' deputies and was killed in 1918 during the armed rebellion of the Czechoslovak corps at the station Chelyabinsk . There are historical buildings on the street built at the beginning of the 20th century.

It originates not far from the Malachite Hotel and between the streets of Krasnaya and Yelkina it goes from north to south, ending at a residential building on Sonya Krivoy Street. The length of the street is 857 meters ^[1] . For the most part, the street has one lane in one direction.

Khovanov's mansion - in the appraisal statements of real estate of the city of Chelyabinsk for 1901 on the street. Orenburg (now St. Vasenko, 25) refers to the five-room house of the "reserve private" D.F. Khovanov (1858-22.05.1910). Khovanov Dorofei Filippovich (originally had a wooden house on Uralskaya Street in Zarechye (1891), he sold timber and wood products. His trading shops were located on the East and Khlebnaya squares of Chelyabinsk. He tried to run for vowels in 1906, but to no avail. Mansion It was built by D.F. Khovanov in 1908-1910. Dorofei Khovanov died during the construction of his house, falling from the scaffolding.Donofey Filippovich Gennady's son (1880-1956) took over his father’s business, but almost immediately faced financial difficulties. rent part of your house in a For example, obstetrician B. M. Shekhter rented premises in Khovanov’s house in 1913. The house was sold at auction for debts in 1913. Trinity merchant G. A. Bashkirov bought the house. The Laptev and Manaev Partnership bought the mansion. In November 1916, a note appeared in the newspaper Chelyabinsk Listok about how the partnership donated the house on Orenburgskaya Street as a gift to the city for organizing a shelter. In 1923, the former Khovanovs' house was municipalized, but already in 1920-1922 This building housed the staff of the Cheka.

The building of the former tea-packing factory - tea-packing factory A. Kuznetsova - A. Gubkina was opened in Chelyabinsk in 1904 by the partnership "Aleksey Gubkin's Successor Alexander Kuznetsov and Co.". It was located in a stone building (subsequently occupied by a chemical farm), in which tea was weighed and packaged. At the origins of the company was the Kungurian 1st Guild merchant A.S. Gubkin (1816-83), who moved the main office to Moscow in 1881. After the death of Gubkin, tea was continued by his grandson A.G. Kuznetsov, who founded the aforementioned mutual partnership in 1891. Securities of the company belonged mainly to related families of the Kuznetsovs and Ushakovs. The chairman of the partnership in 1891-1917 was A.E. Vladimirov, a Great Merchant by origin, a member of the board of the Moscow Merchant Bank, and a friend of the chairman of the board of the Moscow Merchant Bank (since 1914). After the death of Kuznetsov, his younger brothers and sisters continued the business. In the early 1900s, one of the Kuznetsov brothers bought a wooden house in Chelyabinsk (in the 1970s, he was still on the territory of the former chemical farm) and land for the construction of the factory. In 1909, 2 thousand people worked at the tea packing factory of the partnership “Alexey Gubkin’s Successor Alexander Kuznetsov and Co.”

Arkhipov Mansion - a mansion on the corner of Skobelevskaya and Orenburg was erected in 1909-1911 and was originally the main building of the estate with outbuildings. The building was built without a certain style, which is very characteristic of the late XIX - early XX centuries, when very eclectic (that is, mixed, multi-style) architectural solutions were used.

The house is in the late Art Nouveau style, built with a “verb” (L-shaped), with a sloping south-west corner oriented towards the intersection. The building is two-story, plastered, the first floor is brick, the second is wooden. The roof is metal, of complex shape. Above the cornice, respectively pilasters, there are curly parapet columns with the completion in the form of a volute, between which there is a metal forged openwork lattice. The principle of compositional solution of street facades is central-axial symmetry. The architectural decoration on the street facades is emphasized: the corner, the central and flank sections of the facades on the 2nd floor are highlighted by vertical division along the entire height with columns having molded composite capitals. The beveled corner is accented by a balcony with a metal openwork wrought-iron grill. Initially, under it was the entrance to the first floor. Over the crowning cornice there are massive attics completed by large white-stone flowerpots. The building is completed by a cornice with a wide outward part and a smooth frieze; initially, the lower part of the cornice slab had stucco decoration. The walls of the first floor on the street facades are rusticated. At different times in the mansion were located the sponge and the district of the RCP (b), the orphanage, home trust, housing administration, Uralgiprovodkhoz and other institutions. In the 1920s, the editorial board of the newspaper Sovetskaya Pravda (the future Chelyabinsk Worker) was located here. At different times in the mansion were located the sponge and the district of the RCP (b), the orphanage, home trust, housing administration, Uralgiprovodkhoz and other institutions. In the 1920s, the editorial board of the newspaper Sovetskaya Pravda (the future Chelyabinsk Worker) was located here.