Vera Horuzhey Street (Minsk)

In 1959, the Green Ring Street appeared in Minsk, and already in 1960 the street was named after Vera Horuzhey ^{[1] [2]} (according to other sources, the renaming took place in 1976 ^[3] ). In honor of Vera Khoruzhey, the polygraphists located at the beginning of the street GPTU (now the Minsk State Vocational Printing College named after V.Z. Khoruzhey) were named; a memorial plaque was installed on house No. 1 ^[4] . Initially, the end of the street was an intersection with Chervyakova Street (2200 m) ^[3] . Currently extended west to the Starovilensky tract. For some time there was a square of Vera Khoruzhey (currently the area has been abolished, its territory is built up) ^[3] .

In 1969, at the beginning of the street, the Furniture House was opened (an area of ​​4320 m²), in 1979 - the indoor premises of the Komarovsky Market , by the beginning of 1982, 9-storey residential buildings were built on the site from Komarovsky Market and Kuibyshev Street to Maxim Bogdanovich Street ^{[5 ]} .

As of 1983, there were a number of important objects on the street, not counting the citywide shopping center, - five design institutes (Belgiprotorf, house 3; BelNIIgiproselstroy and Belgiproselkhoz, house 29, Lengipromyasomolprom, house 33, Soyuzgiproleskhoz, house 41), Central City Library named after Yanki Kupala (house 16), Printing plant named after Yakub Kolas, computer factory (later - MPOVT) ^[3] .

In the 1970s, the construction of an ensemble of five identical 16-story monolithic-frame buildings began (the author of the project was Olga Ladygina , the architect was Vladimir Pushkin, the design engineer was Vladimir Potershchuk), conceived as high-rise accents of the entire district. The buildings were designed square, but the round balconies gave them a complex shape. The buildings were the first monolithic-frame houses in Minsk, which required numerous approvals and innovations during construction (for example, the last houses were built not on a monolithic, but on a pile-plate foundation first used in Minsk). In 1980, the first building was built (put into operation in 1982), in 2000 - the last. The last building was redeveloped from residential to office. The popular name "corn" was attached to the buildings for their external resemblance to its ears ^{[6] [7] [8]} .

At the beginning of the street is a number of large shopping facilities of citywide significance. Some buildings of the Printing Plant and the MPOVT plant are occupied by shopping centers (Silhouette and Impulse, respectively). Other buildings of the Polygraphic Combine were sold to a Turkish investor for conversion to a hotel ^[9] .

Vera Khoruzhey Street intersects with the streets: Krasnaya and Yakub Kolas , Kuybyshev , Maxim Bogdanovich , Starovilenskaya, Kropotkin , Gaya, Shevchenko Boulevard , Chervyakov St. and Starovilensky tract.

The street is connected with other parts of the city by all types of public transport - buses, minibuses, trolleybuses, trams and the metro station “ Yakub Kolas square ”. In the future, construction of third-line metro stations is planned near the street. Tram tracks are located on Krasnaya / Yakub Kolas street and Starovilensky tract at the very beginning and the very end of Vera Khoruzhey street, respectively.