Komsomolskaya Square in Chelyabinsk is one of the iconic places of the city. Here are located not only shopping complexes, but also recreation areas. The area is an important traffic intersection that directs automobile flows to the Leninsky and Traktorozavodsky districts from the center.
Why is Komsomolskaya?
September 1, 1930, not far from the intersection of Spartak Street (present Avenue named after V.I. Lenin) and ul. Marchenko (formerly Guryevskaya St.) opened the doors of the school Tractorbuilding. Now this is gymnasium No. 48 named after N. Ostrovsky.
The square in front of the school was deserted, and only students actively spent time here at breaks and after school.
In the early years of World War II, volunteers of the 97th tank brigade were placed in the building, who in May 1942 passed a parade formation in the area and went to the front after presenting them with a combat banner.
In August 1967, by the decision of the city executive committee, the wasteland in front of school No. 48 was officially named Komsomolskaya Square in Chelyabinsk.
What to see
Despite the relative youth, photos of Komsomolskaya Square in Chelyabinsk are regularly published in various catalogs of city sights.
The events of those years are immortalized in the monument: the IS-3 tank, which was opened in May 1965, recalls the second name of Chelyabinsk - Tankograd. During the war years, these tanks were called Stalin's pikes. Launched the release of this car was in recent years, the Second World War, but the tank took part in the Victory Parades in Berlin and Potsdam.
Then, in May 1965, a monument to the heroes of the rear of the Great Patriotic War was erected on Komsomolskaya Square in Chelyabinsk. But due to the negligence of the authorities, the bas-relief was lost, and a multi-storey apartment building was erected in its place.
On the left side of the square is bordered by a park to them. Valentina Tereshkova, where you can have a good time both in winter and in summer heat. The square was created in the 50s of the last century, it has a fountain, children's attractions, a cafe.
At the entrance in 1983, a bust was installed by the Hero of Socialist Labor I. Ya. Trashutin, an engineer-designer of tractor engine engines during the Second World War and the post-war period.
