Surganova Street (Minsk)

The street begins at the intersection of Academic and Platonov streets near the Botanical Garden , focusing strictly on the north. After 350 meters, the street deviates slightly to the northwest, at the intersections with Independence Avenue and Kuzma Chorny Street, it deviates twice further to the northwest. At the intersection with Yakub Street, Kolas moves a few meters to the west, maintaining the same direction. Further, Surganova Street intersects with the streets of Kuybyshev - Leonid Beda and ends with the intersection with Maxim Bogdanovich Street in Bangalore Square . Continuation of the street to the west - Orlovskaya street . In the early 1980s, the street continued several hundred meters further west, until the intersection with Lily Karastoyanova Street ^[2] .

The street is located northeast of the center of Minsk, until the beginning of the XX century there was no regular development. The first buildings on the street appeared in the late 1920s, until 1932 a narrow gauge railway operated to deliver peat to the ^[2] . One of the first capital buildings was the constructivist Press House on the corner of Surganov and Sovetskaya (now Independence Avenue ), built in 1935 ^{[3] [2]} .

The section from the west to Yakub Kolas Street was called Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street (currently it runs parallel to Surganova Street in some sections), another part of the modern street was known as Typographic ^[2] . It was renamed in honor of the underground member, party-statesman Fedor Anisimovich Surganov in 1977 ^[2] .

Active development of the site from Yakub Kolas Street to Maxim Bogdanovich began in the early 1970s ^{[4] [2]} . In the late 1970s, according to an individual project, houses were built with special studios No. 42 (known as the “House of Artists” and “House of Scientists” - not only artists but also teachers of the nearby Belarusian Polytechnic Institute received apartments) and No. 44 ^{[5 ] [6] [4]} . In 1980, at the intersection with Beda Street, a large Riga store was opened for its time (architects E. Dyatlov, A. Zheldakov), by whose name the quarter received an unofficial name ^[4] . Since 1979, the development of the quarter began between Gorky (now Bogdanovich), Nekrasov , Beda and Surganov streets with large-panel houses of the M-464, M111-90 and M-335 series. On Surganova Street, using standard series of residential buildings, compositions of varying number of storeys with several high-rise (16 floors) accents (architects L. Klitsunova, M. Shavelzon, N. Obukhova) were created, social and cultural and household objects were placed in the attached buildings ^[4] .

In the early 1980s, it was intended to turn Surganov Street into a highway of continuous movement, and build a car tunnel under Leninsky Prospekt (now Independence Avenue) ^[2] .

For a long time on the odd side from the intersection with Yakub Kolas Street to Bangalore Square there was an undeveloped space about 100 m wide, where private sector houses were kept for some time ^[4] . In the 1990s and 2000s, UFO, Surganova 41, Europa, Zebra, 514 Belarusbank branch, Nordin Medical Center, McDonald's restaurant were built there.

The last house on the odd side is No. 63 (McDonald's), on the even - No. 88 ^[7] .

Main Buildings

the beginning of the street

• Surganova 1 - high-rise building of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ^[2] ;
• Surganova 2A - Palace of Water Sports ;
• Surganova 6 - Joint Institute for Informatics Problems of the NAS of Belarus (formerly the Institute of Technical Cybernetics) ^[2] ;
• Surganova 9 - Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ^[2] ;
• Surganova 11 - Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ^[2] ;
• Surganova 13 - Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ^[2] ;

intersection with Independence Avenue

• Surganova 8 / Nezavisimosti 76 - residential building with the Akademkniga store ^{[8] [2]} ;
• Surganova 12 / Independence 81 - Belarusian State Academy of Arts ^[2] ;
• Surganova 17 - one of the buildings of the Institute of Physics. B. I. Stepanova of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ^[2] ;
• Surganova 19 - House of the Press .

second half of the street

• Surganova 14, 14A - building of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts;
• Surganova 18 - hostel of the Minsk State Polytechnic College ;
• Surganova 28 - road design institute;
• Surganova 37, 45, 47 (on the odd side) - a complex of student dormitories of the Belarusian National Technical University ^[2] , inter-university student clinic number 33;
• Surganova 42 and 44 - "House of Scientists" or "House of Artists";
• Surganova 50 - supermarket "Riga".

Since the street is part of the second transport ring, throughout its entire length there is heavy public transport traffic.

At the intersection with Independence Avenue, there is the Academy of Sciences metro station , one of the busiest in the Minsk metro . In Bangalore Square, the construction of a third metro line station is planned. In the distant future, the fourth metro line will pass under it along the entire Surganova street, although the possibility of constructing this particular section in parallel with the construction of a new line of the third line will be considered. The number of fourth-line stations on the street is unclear: on some design schemes, there is no station at the intersection with Yakub Kolas Street ^[9] .

As of August 2019, the following public transport routes follow the street directly:

• Buses - 20s, 37, 59;
• Express buses - 76e, 89e;
• Trolleybuses - 12, 29, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 54, 55, 61, 92.

Trolleybus routes 33, 34, 55, 92 and the 76e bus pass the entire street. In addition, at stops near Bangalore Square, there are destinations for several suburban routes. Several city shuttles also follow the street. Several public transport routes follow perpendicular streets, including a tram line running along Yakub Kolas Street.

• The streets are named after them: Surgana Fedor Anіsіmavіch , Official site of the Sovetsky district (Belarusian)