Online camera Vologda. Herzen Street, Levichev Street
Herzen Street (formerly Ekaterininskaya-Dvoryanskaya) is a street in Vologda, one of the main thoroughfares of the city. It runs from Mira Street (from Winter Bridge) to the railway line Vologda-Moscow. The beginning of the street is located in the administrative center of the city, where the building of the Vologda Oblast Administration is located. Most of the street is located in the historic district of Nizhny Posad.
The street has several wooden monuments of architecture.
The historical name - Catherine Street, the street was named after the church of Catherine in Frolovka. The addition to the name, Dvoryanskaya, was formed by the building of the street with the mansions of the nobility or its destination for building on the appropriate class distinction, as well as Obukhovskaya Dvoryanskaya Street. The name was formed after the approval of the street on the general plan of Vologda in 1781.
On October 16, 1918 the street was renamed in honor of the revolutionary writer and publicist A.I. Gertsen.
In 1936-1939 at the end of Herzen Street in the blocks between Kozlonskaya, Rabochaya, Vetoshkin and Yashin Streets a settlement of two-storied wooden houses of the Department of the Northern Railway was built. The improvement of the street continued at that time: in 1928 the area from Novinkovskaya street (nowadays Yashina street) was paved with cobbles, and in 1938 up to Levicheva street.
In the middle of 1950s several residential and administrative buildings were built in Herzen street. In 1955-1958 the carriageway was asphalted, and in 1960-62 the street was widened to 12 meters with the installation of sidewalks and storm sewer in place of the palisades. Mass construction according to standard designs, which took place in 1960-1980s, was accompanied by the destruction of the historical buildings on the street.
Thus, the Svyato-Dukhov Monastery (houses #14 and 16 were built in its place) and the Church of Catherine the Great at the junction with Predtechenskaya Street were destroyed. On October 1, 1981, Herzen Street was connected to Marshala Koneva Street by the tunnel near the Shogrash River. In 1986 this section was reconstructed: a tunnel was built under the railroad tracks and a bridge was built over the Shogrash River.
At the beginning of Herzen Street formed the administrative center of the city - (Drygin Square) with the buildings of the Vologda Oblast Government, the Vologda Oblast Legislative Assembly, the Vologda City Duma, the Vologda Oblast Court of Arbitration and the Vologda Oblast Federal Tax Service Administration.
