Webcam Yaroslavl. Sovetskaya Street, Respublikanskaya Street
Sovetskaya Street (former Proboynaya Street, Ilyinskaya Street) is a street in the central part of Yaroslavl, running between Sovetskaya Square and Polushkina Roscha Street. The houses are numbered from Sovetskaya Square.
Probolnaya street was first mentioned in the record of miracles from the cathedral icon of St. Nicholas, in the manuscript of the beginning of the XVI century, that is, long before the regular redevelopment of the city. It started from the Florovsky bridge over the Medveditsa ravine, went through the whole Zemlyanoy Gorod and ended at the Semenovskie Vorota, that is, from the modern "Eternal Flame" to the Red Square.
The origin of the name is unknown. Streets with the same name were in the Middle Ages and in other Russian cities, for example, in Veliky Novgorod, Rostov, Vologda.
After the adoption of regular planning of the city street stretching from Ilyinskaya square through Semenovskaya square to the town rampart, and including part of the old Proboynaya street, became known as Ilyinskaya after the Ilyinskaya church located at its beginning.
However, the Yaroslavl citizens kept calling the part of the street between Ilyinskaya and Semyonovskaya squares by the old name Proboinaya and eventually the name was officially fixed.
In 1918 both parts of the street were renamed Sovetskaya.
