Webcam Krasnoyarsk. Karl Marx Street, Profsoyuzov Street
Karl Marx Street originates in the historic center of Krasnoyarsk, at Strelka, at the confluence of the Kachi River and the Yenisei, and runs through the central districts of the city. Territorially the street is located in the Central, Zheleznodorozhny and Oktyabrsky districts of Krasnoyarsk.
Since the second half of the XVIII century trade in Krasnoyarsk was carried out mainly on Starobazarnaya Square, near the Resurrection Cathedral (now Peace Square). Built at that time for trade a wooden guest house soon no longer meets the needs of the city, and in 1865 was built two-storey stone building of the guest house. This building is still one of the most interesting in the city, but has undergone some changes (Karla Marksa, 6).
Since that time Narrow Street was called Gostinskaya. Up until the mid-1920s there were a number of hotels here: "Modern", "Central", "Commercial Rooms" and others, and there were also a large number of private homes, the townspeople rented out their rooms. Where hotels, there were also drinking establishments: inns and restaurants on this street were also quite numerous. In general, it remained a place where the local elite lived and various offices operated.
During the years of Soviet power in Krasnoyarsk a special commission on naming and renaming the intracity facilities with the purpose to rename all the streets and squares in the city in the revolutionary spirit. Thus, in 1921 Gostinskaya street was renamed after Karl Marx, the German philosopher, sociologist, economist, and social activist.
Karl Marx street was radically reconstructed in the sixties of the last century. A lot of buildings were torn down. The street was extended, at the end of the 1960s it was built the first nine-storey houses.
The beginning of the street, where houses number 11-19 were located, was the oldest block of wooden houses in Krasnoyarsk.
In the area from 9th January street to the middle of the block near "Surikov museum" stop on the even side most of the houses of pre-revolutionary times are preserved till now. The oldest building on the block is a two-story stone mansion of the merchant I.I. Popov of the early 19th century.
Currently, Karl Marx street looks more like an avenue. It is a wide and extremely busy thoroughfare, where most bus and trolleybus routes pass.
To date, one of the oldest streets in Krasnoyarsk, about eighteen pre-revolutionary buildings have survived. Many of them are almost intact and may delight the citizens and guests of the city: first of all it is a beautiful one-storey stone mansion of Vera Gadalova, built in 1904 by the architect V. Sokolovsky in the "Russian baroque" style with French and Italian Renaissance motifs. This building is now one of the departments of the Surikov Art Museum. Surikov.
Of course, also worthy of attention is the elegant building Zelmanovich House (architect V.Sokolovsky, 1910-1911), located on the corner of Karl Marx Street and Surikov Street (Surikov Street, 19). Unfortunately, in 2009, commercial and office complex "Iceberg" was added to the north-west wing of the building, which greatly spoiled the overall view of the building.
From the heritage of wooden architecture the two-story building at the corner of Karl Marx and Gorky streets is interesting. This is Sevastyanov's manor, one of the first commercial estates of the city, built in the late XIX century, and rebuilt in 1908-1916 according to the project of V. Sokolovsky.
Unfortunately not all monuments of architecture in Krasnoyarsk are lucky. In the area of TSUM store in the second line there is a residential house of the estate of Krasnoyarsk burgher S.S. Tropin, built at the end of the XIX century to the design of A.A. Folbaum. After a kindergarten, located in it, was moved to another place, the building is in a derelict condition for many years.
From the beginning of Karl Marx St. to Diktatura Proletaria St. the housing stock consists of Khrushchev, five- and nine-story improved buildings and one nine-story panel building with a "new floor plan". All of these houses, built according to typical designs, certainly do not beautify this old street. Similarly, office buildings built in the XX and XXI centuries do not look appropriate here at all.
A pleasant exception is the business center "Europe" (called "Titanic"), which successfully blended into the ensemble of buildings of the city administration.
In the area between Dictatorship Proletariat Street and Robespiera Street, the architecture is dominated by Stalinist buildings. Of interest are the monumental buildings of the State Universal Scientific Library of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Krasnoyarsk Railway Administration, as well as buildings of the former Civil Air Fleet Administration, Technical Library and the House of Soviets, located on Prospekt Mira, which form an ensemble of buildings on Revolution Square. Opposite the monument to Lenin, erected in 1970, is the main entrance to the Central Park.
