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Peace Street (formerly Gostinodvorskaya Square and Glinkovskaya Embankment) is the main street of Vologda. Runs from Sergei Orlov Street, along the river Zolotukha to Babushkin Square. It is located in the historic center of the city: from Sergei Orlov Street to Oktyabrskaya Street - the historic district of the City, the rest part - Nizhny Posad.
The street has a great cultural and historical significance - there are architectural monuments of the XVIII-XX centuries: ensembles of shopping malls, the House of Fair as well as memorial monuments. Part of the street repeats the location of the eastern wall of the Kremlin of Ivan the Terrible.
In addition, the street is an important thoroughfare in the central part of town, and plays the role of one of the main shopping streets of Vologda.
Before 1918 a part of Mira street from Sergey Orlov to Oktyabrskaya street was called Gostinodvorskaya square, the other part (up to the modern Babushkin square) was called Glinkovskaya embankment. The name of Gostinodvorskaya square was given by the existing from the XVII century Gostiny Dvor, and the Glinka embankment got its name from the clay, which was thrown when digging the river Zolotukha for the construction of the Vologda Kremlin. Topinim Glinka came into use from the second half of the XVIII century and was preserved in the name of the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Glinky. This part of the street was also spread as Zolotushnaya Embankment.
Chekhov street received its present name in January 1960, when by the decision of the Vologda City Executive Committee the former Gasilovskaya Street was renamed to honor the 100th anniversary of the writer Chekhov A.P. (29.1.1860 - 29.1.1960).
This renaming is in no way connected with the facts and events of Chekhov's life.
