Webcam Yaroslavl. Bolshaya Oktyabrskaya Street, Gorodskaya Val Street
Bolshaya Oktyabrskaya Street is located in the Kirovsky district of the city.
It was designed according to the regular plan of 1778 and named Bolshaya Rozhdestvenskaya after the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin located at the beginning of the street. It crossed Posad in a straight line from Bogoyavlovskaya Square to the square near the Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in Vspolye, partly repeating the route of the old streets Kiselyukha, which went from Dmitrievskaya Square (near the Church of Demetrius of Thessaloniki) to Nikololo-Mokrinskaya Church and Spasskaya, which went from Nikolo-Mokrinskaya Church to the Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa.
The regular plan harmoniously blended the masterpieces of Yaroslavl architects of previous centuries with the modern buildings: the view of the street from one side was closed by the Nativity of Christ Church, from the other - by the Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa (both churches were demolished in the 1930s).
The oldest building on the street is the Church of Demetrius of Thessaloniki, built in 1673. Of the buildings prior to the regular planning, the church in the name of the Praise of Our Lady and the house of the factory worker Sorokin, built in the middle of the XVIII century, have also survived.
In 1900 a tramway was built along the street, which connected Bogoyavlenskaya Square with Vspolye railway station.
In 1918, after the seizure of the city, the Bolsheviks renamed Bolshaya Rozhdestvenskaya Street and Rozhdestvenskaya Street into Oktyabrskaya Street. In 1926, the name of the street was changed to Bolshaya Oktyabrskaya. In 1984, the former Rozhdestvenskaya Street was re-designated and renamed Nahimson Street.
In 2009-2010 within the preparation for the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of Yaroslavl a large-scale reconstruction of the street was carried out. In the summer of 2009, the streetcar tracks of the last remaining section of the street were dismantled, the underground communications and the street cushion were completely replaced, and Bolshaya Kastrychnitskaya got a new road carpet, sidewalks and road barriers.
The reconstruction of Bolshaya Oktyabrskaya St., which was being done simultaneously, was also completed. Ukhtomsky Street, into which Bolshaya Oktyabrskaya passes in its eastern alignment, made it possible to significantly improve communication between the central square and the main railway station and to lay direct bus and trolleybus routes.
