Teatralnaya Square or Theatre Square (russian: link=no, Театральная площадь) is the main city square of

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, situated in

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History

In the 19th century on the site of the present-day Teatralnaya Square was a wasteland. It was situated just between

and Nakhichevan-on-Don cities.Проекты реконструкции театра и площади
/ref> In the 1920-1930s, this area was called ''Revolutsionnaya Square''. After the construction of

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, the square changed its name to ''Teatralnaya''. Architectural appearance of the square had been changing after the construction of the theatre. Earlier, on the north-west side, there were situated the buildings of Nikolaevskaya City Hospital, constructed in 1890–1894 on the project of Rostov architect Nikolai Sokolov. In 1913 there was also constructed the Administration Building of the Vladikavkaz railway (architects – Andrei Butkov, Nikolai Walterж

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). On the south side of the square was built a five-story apartment house of railway workers in 1926. During the Great Patriotic War, the theatre building was badly damaged. In the 1980s on the western side of the square there was constructed a new building of Rostov State Medical Institute.

Today

Today at the square there are situated the Main Directorate of the North Caucasus Railway, Maxim Gorky Rostov Academic Drama Theater and offices of several commercial companies. Also there stands the Memorial dedicated to the liberators of Rostov-on-Don, erected for the 40th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. The monument is a

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72 meters high, with a stylized gilded image of the Greek goddess Nike (goddess), Nike, which is dressed in a waterproof cape. Next to the theater building there is an ensemble of fountains designed by architect Evgeniy Vuchetich. The fountain is a square pool with a central sculptural group on a pedestal consisting of four Atlas (architecture), atlantes, who hold a bowl with uprising streams. The group is surrounded by curbstones with figures of frogs and turtles. There is a city legend that the young sculptor gave the muzzles of these amphibians the features of the faces of some city heads. The sculptures made of concrete.

Gallery

File:Ростов на Дону Вид на театр Горького 1942.jpg, View of Teatralnaya Square in 1942 File:Ростов на Дону Вид на Театральную площадь 1942.jpg, Another view of Teatralnaya Square in 1942 File:Ростов на Дону Драматический театр 1942.jpg, View of Drama Theatre in 1942 File:Upravlenie SKZhD.jpg, The Main Directorate of the North Caucasus Railway

References

{{Reflist Squares in Rostov-on-Don Tourist attractions in Rostov-on-Don Buildings and structures in Rostov-on-Don