Pushkinskaya Street (russian: Пушкинская улица) is one of the main streets in
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 Eu ...
. The street is named after the Russian poet
Alexander Pushkin. Many old houses, university buildings, and the
Don State Public Library
Don State Public Library (russian: Донская государственная публичная библиотека) is the main public library of Rostov Oblast, and is situated in the city of Rostov-on-Don. It was established in 1886 and is ...
are located on this street. The Pushkinskaya Street is a green boulevard, it goes parallel to the
Don River.
History
The street was constructed in the second half of the 19th century and was originally named ''Kuznetskaya'' (''Blacksmith''). In 1885, it was named ''Pushkinskaya'' in honor of the great Russian poet
Alexander Pushkin, who visited Rostov-on-Don several times.
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At the beginning of the 20th century Pushkinskaya Street became the second most important after the
Bolshaya Sadovaya Street Bolshaya (Russian language for "big") may refer to:
* Bolshaya, Arkhangelsk, a village
* Bolshaya chistka, "Great Purge", the 1936–1938 Soviet purge
* Bolshaya Izhora, an urban locality in the Lomonosovsky District of Leningrad Oblast
* Bolshay ...
. In 1904 electric streetlights appeared on the street. The houses on the street were built by the best architects of the city.
[Улицы Ростова. Пушкинская. Централизованная библиотечная система Ростова-на-Дону]
In 1959 the
Monument to Alexander Pushkin was erected on the street.
Notable buildings and structures
References
Bibliography
* ''Волошинова Л. Ф.'' Пушкинская улица. — Ростов-на-Дону: «Донской издательский дом», 2000. — {{ISBN, 5-87688-250-X.
Streets in Rostov-on-Don