Not only the regional, but also the world-famous tourist center - the city of Yaroslavl - has been over a thousand years old. In some places, time has greatly changed his face, but somewhere has preserved in its original form.
Only six districts are in Yaroslavl: Leninsky district, Zavolzhsky, Dzerzhinsky, Kirovsky, Frunzensky and Krasnoperekopsky. But the area in this ancient city is much larger. One of them is October Square of Yaroslavl.
Leninsky district
The so-called part of the city is located on more than ten square kilometers. About 64 thousand Yaroslavl residents live here, that is, almost 11% of the inhabitants.
Its history dates back to mid-March 1936, when the city council of Yaroslavl decided: to be in such an area! And with it both Krasnoperekopsky and Kirov appeared.
It should be noted that at first the area was called Stalin. The name “father of peoples” in the thirties of the last century was unusually relevant in all kinds of names. However, the debunking of the cult of personality dictated new rules. As the petrel of the change of formations, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, wrote: "I clean myself under Lenin to swim further into the revolution." And so the year 1961, November gives the Stalin region a new name, now “the leader of the world proletariat, ” - Leninsky.
And immediately after a few weeks, after the renaming of the district, another one was allocated from it - under the sonorous name of Dzerzhinsky. Apparently, the name of “Iron Felix” was supposed to dispel the slightest doubt that the swim was continuing, and not somewhere else, namely “into the revolution further”.
The October Square of Yaroslavl, which arose here during the thawing sixties, served as a proof of this.
October Square
This open space in urban areas is located where Republican Street intersects with Victory Street. There was a square with a bridge across the Volga-mother. Before, in the XII century the Peter and Paul Monastery was located here, and from the XV century to 1937 - the Orthodox Church of Peter and Paul.
The Peter and Paul Monastery was mentioned for the first time in the annals of 1186, and experts on the life of Nikita Stolpnik argue that the chains that he wore during his life, after his death, fell into this monastery. However, this shrine did not save Peter and Paul from abolition in the 15th century. And now this is the entrance from the October Square of Yaroslavl to the October Bridge.
And this is the story of the church that arose on the monastery site:
- 1691 - the year when the church was founded;
- 1701 - consecration of the temple;
- 1918 (July) - the structures of the Byzantine architecture of the Peter and Paul parish were partially destroyed during the Yaroslavl uprising;
- 1922 - restoration of the destroyed by restorers headed by P. Baranovsky;
- 1931 - closing of the temple;
- 1937 - the church of the apostles Peter and Paul is demolished.
