Webcam Petrozavodsk. Pervomaysky Avenue, Kondopozhskaya Street (Karelia)
Pervomaysky Avenue runs parallel to Shotman Street and Oktyabrsky Avenue. It begins with Antikainen Street, intersects with Sorokskaya, Zheleznodozhnaya, Moskovskaya, Konodopozhskaya and Griboyedova Streets, and ends with Zavodskaya Street.
Pervomaysky Prospect was and remains the way to St. Petersburg - in the XIX century it was the beginning of the St. Petersburg postal route. At the beginning of the twentieth century in this area were mostly factories and plants. After the revolution the street was called Pervogo Maya highway, and in the 30s was actively built up. For a while the street was called Dmitrievskaya. In the 70s, it was finally renamed to Pervomaysky Prospekt. For a short time it was considered the most expensive street of the city. After the Great Patriotic War, the roadway was paved with crimson quartzite, an expensive finishing material. But in the 1980s, paving stones were replaced with less pretentious asphalt.
The jewel of Pervomaysky Avenue is the Kalevala Cinema. Since the unusual graffiti by Perm artist Alexander Zhunev appeared on its facade, the building has always attracted the attention of citizens and guests of the city. Next to the Republican Specialized School of Arts in the Peace Park there are several monuments at once.
These are and "Black Tulip", opened in 1992 (the authors of the sculptor M.P. Koppalev and architect N.P. Trishkov), and installed in 2015 next to it a monument to the airborne combat vehicle BMD-1, a bust of the commander of the Soviet Airborne Troops Vasily Margelov, and a monument to the defender of the Fatherland, opened in July 2019 (author sculptor Salavat Scherbakov). At the fork of Shotman and Pervomaysky in the public garden named after the first military commandant of Petrozavodsk I.S. Molchanov, the monument "T-34 tank" is another local landmark.
