Lenin Avenue (Ekaterinburg)

Throughout the history of the city, the avenue was built with buildings of various architectural styles. Since the 18th century, the avenue retained the central alley (it was rebuilt many times and planned for liquidation, but it has survived to this day).

It was formed during the construction of the dam of the city pond in 1723. Passing through the dam, the street connected the western and eastern half of the city (Church and Trade side). The street was built up gradually, along the Moscow and Shartash roads.

The first stone building (and the oldest surviving one) is the General Directorate of Mining Plants (Mining Chancellery, 1737 - middle of the 19th century, classicism), for other buildings built on the 1905 square, see the article 1905 Square . In the years 1820-1821. - A pharmacy of the Yekaterinburg Mining Department ( classicism ) was built. In the years 1860-1866 the building of the former district court was built on the embankment of the City Pond (architect A.I. Paduchev). In 1912, the Opera and Ballet Theater was built ( Art Nouveau , architect K. T. Babykin , project of architect V. Semenov, reconstructed by December 26, 1982 )

In the 1920s and 1930s, many buildings of the pre-revolutionary building were demolished, and in their place a number of buildings were built in the constructivism style: the “House of Communications” (now the Post Office, designed by architect K. I. Solomonov, 1934 ), “The House of Printing” (printing house "Ural Worker", 1930 , architect G. A. Golubev), the building of the Regional Executive Committee (architect S. V. Zakharov, 1934), the "Builders Club" (architect M. Ya. Kornfeld, 1930), residential complexes "1- th House of the City Council "(1928)," 4th House of the City Council "(architect S. V. Dombrovsky , 1929-1931)," Town of Chekists "(architects Antonov , Sokolov , Tumbasov , 1929-1936) and Gospromural (architects E.N. Korotkov , G.P. Valenkov , A. B. Gorshkov 1931-1938). Later - the building of the Headquarters of the Ural Military District with a residential complex (architect A.M. Dukelsky, 1935-1940). At the end of the avenue, UPI buildings ( 1939 ) were built. In 1929-1934 Throughout the avenue, a tram line was laid.

In the post-war years, a block from Vostochnaya Street (1953-1960), including the Uralgipromez Institute and the Ural Polytechnic , was built up in the style of “ Soviet neoclassicism ”. In 1954, ^{[1] the} residential “ House of Artists ” was commissioned. The building of the Ural Economic Council was built (architect A.P. Tuff , 1957 , later Ural State University ). On July 18, 1959, the Eternal Flame was lit at the mass grave in Kommunarov Square. September 5, 1962 Lenin Street became the avenue. The building of the theater of musical comedy and the cinema “Sovkino” ( 1962 , architect P.D. Demintsev ) was reconstructed . In 1961 , the last quarters with old wooden buildings near the Opera House were demolished and two residential buildings were built (1962–63, architect P. D. Demintsev and F. S. Taxis , No. 53 for 147 apartments, with the Sport store ” And No. 48 for 244 apartments, with a Central grocery store) ^[1] . in 1962-1973 the dam of the City Pond was reconstructed; the Historical Square was created. In 1963-1967 there was a residential house and hotel "Yubileinaya" (with the store "Ocean"). With two exceptions, the avenue has retained its appearance from this time to the present day.

In February 1979, an underground passage was opened at the intersection with ul. Eastern.

In 1987 , a multi-story new building of the OTsM plant was built. In 1995, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Victory, a monument to G.K. Zhukov (sculptor K.G. Grunberg, architect G.I. Belyankin and S. Gladkikh) was opened in front of the headquarters of the Ural Military District, in 2003 , at the site of the public garden intersection with st. Khokhryakova - “Corin Center on Lenin” (5th floor. Business center with offices of several banks).

• No. 1 - Youth Palace (1973)
• No. 5, 5/1, 5/2, 5/3, 5/4 - the complex “4th House of the City Council” (buildings A, B, C, D, D) (1929-1931)
• No. 5l - office center “Samolet” (2005)
• No. 6a - The building of the Yekaterinburg office of the State Bank (architect I. L. Falkovsky, 1895). The building houses the Military Commissariat of the Sverdlovsk Region
• No. 6b - Building of the Yekaterinburg office of the State Bank (architect M.P. Malakhov, 1847). The building houses the Military Commissariat of the Sverdlovsk Region
• No. 11a - Church in the name of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow
• No. 13 - Sverdlovsk Male Choral College
• No. 13A - Residential building of the refinery
• No. 13b - Italian College of UrFU
• No. 15a - Office for the Suppression of Economic Crimes of the Sverdlovsk Region
• No. 17 - Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region
• No. 24a - The building of the Sverdlovsk City Council of People's Deputies
• No. 25 - shopping and business center "Europe" (the former houses of merchants Korobkov )
• No. 26 - Ural State Conservatory named after M.P. Mussorgsky
• No. 27 - VTB 24 Bank
• No. 28 - Ural State College named after I.I. Polzunova
• No. 33 - Gymnasium No. 9 . Before the revolution, the Men's Classic Gymnasium was located here (the gymnasium complex also included a bathhouse, laundry, a garden and a house church (1889).
• No. 35 - Sevastyanov’s House
• No. 36 - The first house of the City Council
• No. 37 - Museum of the History of Stone-Cutting and Jewelry
• No. 39 - Yekaterinburg post office. Before the revolution, this place was a stone two-story house with services and a bathhouse, a shop and a fruit cellar, owned by the merchant wife Ivanova Nadezhda Kirillovna (1889).
• No. 43 - Cinema “Coliseum” (formerly First City Theater )
• No. 45, No. 47 - Musical Comedy Theater
• No. 46a - Opera and Ballet Theater
• No. 50zh - club of builders (1929-1933, architect A. Ya. Kornfeld ), since 1943 the building was occupied by the Sverdlovsk film studio
• No. 51 - Sverdlovskugol Building (1949-1957, architect A.P. Tuff ) ^[2] , later the Ural Economic Council, now - Ural State University named after A. M. Gorky ; Earlier at this address there was a stone two-story house with a mezzanine, services, two baths and a garden, owned by the wife of a college adviser Zinaida Fedorovna Mostovenko. The house stood right at the intersection of modern streets of Turgenev and Lenin Ave, along the red line. The house was demolished during the construction of USU. Then house No. 53 was demolished - a half-stone two-story mansion with a mezzanine, services and a bathhouse that belonged to the wife of the official Mashanova Lyubov Prokopyevna
• No. 52-54 - Houses of Gospromural
• No. 64a - Lyceum No. 88
• No. 66 - 10th student building of UGTU-UPI
• No. 69/1 - Iset Hotel
• No. 69/10 - Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore
• No. 71 - Headquarters of the Volga-Ural Military District
• No. 89 - Ural Polytechnic College , Ural College of Economics

• In the square on the corner of Lenin Avenue and Michurin Street, there is a sculpture group called Citizens. Conversation . "
• At the headquarters of the Ural Military District - a monument to G.K. Zhukov
• Opposite the building of Ural State University (Lenin, 51) is a monument to Y. M. Sverdlov
• In the square on Labor Square - a monument to A. S. Popov
• On the square of 1905 - a monument to V.I. Lenin

On most of Lenin Avenue (from the Eternal Flame to Gagarin Street), a tram line runs along it. The following tram routes pass along the avenue:

18 - the entire length of the tram line in both directions

2 - from the Eternal Flame to the street. Lunacharsky in both directions

13 and 15 - from the street Moscow to the street Gagarin in both directions

6 and 23 - from the street Moscow to the street Lunacharsky in both directions

26 - from the street Moscow to the street Lunacharsky in both directions; from st. Gagarin to the street Lunacharsky only westbound

32 - from the street Moscow to the street Lunacharsky only eastbound

4 and 8 - from the street Lunacharsky to the street Gagarin in both directions

22 - from the street Lunacharsky to the street Gagarin only eastward

A number of city municipal bus routes also pass along Lenin Avenue

61 - throughout the avenue from Kirov Square to the Eternal Flame only in a westerly direction

28 - from the Eternal Flame to the street. Gagarin in both directions

21 - from the Eternal Flame to the street. Karl Liebknecht round trip

50 and 54 - from the street March 8 to pl. Kirov in both directions

57 - from the street March 8 to the street Karl Liebknecht round trip

13 - from the street March 8 to the street Karl Liebknecht east only

32 - from the street March 8 to the street East only east

5 and 10 - eastward from ul. Generalskaya to pl. Kirov, there is a U-turn and a turn on ul. Gagarin; in the western direction from pl. Kirov to the street Eastern

45 - a small section from the street. Generalskaya to the street East only westerly

18 - a small area (several meters) from the square. Kirov to the street Gagarin only westbound

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