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Bolshaya Sadovaya Street (Rostov-on-Don)
Bolshaya Sadovaya Street or Big Garden Street (russian: Большая Садовая улица) is the main street in Rostov-on-Don. Rostov City Hall, Rostov State Musical Theater, Southern Federal University, Chernova House and other notable buildings are located on this street. The street is parallel to the Don River. History The street was formed in the late 18th century. At the beginning of the 19th century some gardens appeared along the street. Therefore, the street was named ''Bolshaya Sadovaya'' (''Big Garden Street''). In the late 19th century it became the central street of the city. A lot of banks, hotels, shops and private houses were built there at that time. In 1901 the first electric tram was launched in the street. In Soviet times, the street was named after Friedrich Engels. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River (Russia), Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of the North Caucasus. The southwestern suburbs of the city lie above the Don river delta. Rostov-on-Don has a population of over one million people, and is an important cultural centre of Southern Russia. History Early history From ancient times, the area around the mouth of the Don River has held cultural and commercial importance. Ancient indigenous inhabitants included the Scythians, Scythian and Sarmatians, Sarmatian tribes. It was the site of Tanais, colonies in antiquity, an ancient Greek colony, Gazaria (Genoese colonies), Fort Tana under the Genoa, Genoese, and Azov#Fortress of Azov, Fort Azak in the time of the Ottoman Empire. In 1749, a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Fadeyev (writer)
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев; – 13 May 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954. Biography Fadeyev was born in Kimry, Tver Governorate. From 1908 to 1912, he lived in Chuguyevka, Primorsky Krai. He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918 and took part in the guerrilla movement against the Japanese interventionists and the White Army during the Russian Civil War. In 1927, he published the novel ''The Rout'' (also known as ''The Nineteen''), in which he described youthful guerrilla fighters. In 1930, he published the first part of the novel ''The Last of the Udege'', on which he continued working the rest of his life (an edition containing the second volume, all he was able to complete, was published in 1940.) In it, Fadeyev intended to show "that an extremely primitive people may experience a leap from tribal communism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Of Children And Youth Creativity (Rostov-on-Don)
The Palace of Children and Youth Creativity (russian: Дворец творчества детей и молодёжи) is an educational youth center in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It works with roughly 1,100 children from ages 5 to 18 and employs 300 educators. It is located in the former Volga-Kama Bank Building, at 55 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street. History On 23 May 1936, the Palace of Pioneers and October was opened in Rostov-on-Don in the former Volga-Kama Bank Building at the corner of Gazetny Lane and Engels Street (now Bolshaya Sadovaya Street). In the autumn of 1936, the first two sections of the Palace, science-technical and artistic, were opened for operation. Its departments opened in series: naturalistic department (1937); military sports department (1938); political-mass department (1939). During the Second World War (1941-1945) work groups and sections of the Palace of the Pioneers were suspended during the occupation of the city by German troops. In the first post-war yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volga-Kama Bank Building
Volga-Kama Bank Building (russian: Здание Волжско-Камского банка) is a building in Rostov-on-Don constructed in Modern style in the beginning of the 20th century on the project of architect Alexander Beketov. It has the status of an object of cultural heritage of federal significance. Architecture The four-story building has an asymmetric form. The main facade is situated at the front of Bolshaya Sadovaya Street. The first floor was initially intended for commercial premises. Above is the double-glazed operating room. Vertical division of the front facade emphasizes the extreme vanes, large windows on the first floor and two-tiered windows of the operating room. These windows are divided by four piers with high relief masks, which support the bank's logo sign. The facade is completed by a large overhanging cornice, above which there is a parapet with curbstones. Rustication of the first floor, cornice and arched entrance are elements borrowed from Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ter-Abramyan House
The Ter-Abramyan House ( rus, Дом Тер-Абрамяна, r=Dom Ter-Abramyana) is an edifice in the Leninsky District of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The house is located at 51 Bolshaya Sadovaya street (russian: Большая Садовая улица, 51). It was a revenue house. The building is also considered to be an object of cultural heritage. History Rostov businessman Ivan Abramovich Ter-Abramyan owned bookstore and engaged in publishing activities. His printing-office and publishing house were accommodated in rented premises. He needed own building. In the last quarter of the 19th century Ter-Abramyan decided to build a house. The Ter-Abramyan House was built in 1886. It was designed by famous Rostov architect Nikolay Matveyevich Sokolov. Dwellings in the building were rented. Ter-Abramyan printing-office worked at the ground floor. It issued books, calendars, newspapers and other. Along with the printing-office ''Donskaya pchela'' (russian: Донская пчела, lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Pomerantsev
Alexander Nikanorovich Pomerantsev (russian: Александр Никанорович Померанцев, November 11, 1849 — October 27, 1918) was a Russian architect and educator responsible for some of the most ambitious architectural projects realized in Imperial Russia and Bulgaria at the turn of the 20th century. An accomplished eclecticist, Pomerantsev practiced Art Nouveau, Byzantine, Russian Revival styles and collaborated with leading structural engineers of his period in creating new types of commercial buildings. Training and early career Pomerantsev was born in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1874. He furthered his education at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1874–78), winning the Academy scholarship for a five-year study tour of Italy, France and Switzerland (1878–1883). In 1887 he was awarded title of ''Academic of Architecture'' for his study of Cappella Palatina (1887, revised edition 1911). The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Duma Building (Rostov-on-Don)2
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Department Store (Rostov-on-Don)
The central department store (Russian: Центральный универмаг) is a shopping complex on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, house 46/30, in Rostov-on-Don. It is located in the historic G. G. Pustovoytov House, and has the status of an object of cultural heritage of Russia of regional significance. History The G. G. Pustovoytov House was built in 1910, at the expense of the shipowner and city patron G. G. Pustovoytov. It was built to the design of architect , and is located in the historical part of the city at the intersection of Bolshaya Sadovaya Street and . The building initially housed the "London" and "Central" hotels, and A. Girshtein's jewelry and watch shop. In the old part of the department store there was a branch of the Riga-headquartered company "Provodnik". In Soviet times The history of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms "Soviet Russia" and "Soviet Union" often are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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