Kashira online camera. Streletskaya street, market area (Moscow region).
Kashira is one of the oldest settlements of the Moscow region. Actually the name Kashira came from the name of the river Kashirka, in the place where it flows into the Oka, on the left bank of the Oka in the beginning of the settlement was located. The city was founded in 1356.
The historical center of Kashira is located on a steep, rugged ravine bank of the Oka. The old layout, extends to the land of the coastal Nikitskaya and Rybny slobodas. The main of key town complexes was formed at Sobornaya square: Assumption church (1826-42) in Empire style, former dwellings of town governor and kazancheys (the second half of the 18 c.), Zubov mansion in Early Classicism style (the end of the 18 - the beginning of the 19 c.).
At the beginning of the 19th century there was a complex of the Market Square which had an eight-sided configuration. Along its perimeter there were buildings of trade lines (partly lost). There is Vvedenskaya church (1802-17) in classicism style and high five-tier belfry - the key construction dominant in Kashira (in the 1860s it was super-structured by clock tier with a spire) in western part of the square. There is also a cinema center (1930-31) in constructivism style, the State Bank building (1946, neoclassicism), and a department store (1980) built according to the typical plan.
The central street connects the Cathedral Square and the Market Square. It is dominated by the empire church of Nikola Ratnogo (Troitskaya; 1815). To the east of the Market square - Church of Ascension (1826-42), similar in style to Vvedenskaya.
Two-story stone and wooden buildings with mezzanines, built in 1860-70-ies, dominate in the residential development of the old town.
