Maxim Gorky Square is one of the central city squares. It is located at the intersection of Maxim Gorky and Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Streets. The square was named after the great Russian writer. What is the history of the square and how to get to it from different parts of the city? Read about it in the article.
History
In the 19th century, a ravine was located on the site of the current Gorky Square, which was buried during the work. The architect of the current attraction is G. Kizevetter. The first contours of Gorky Square in Nizhny Novgorod were outlined in 1842.
At first, a prison prison was built here, in which there was also a prison school, and a little later - a children's shelter for boys, which was opened by Countess O. Kutasova. In the 20th century, at this shelter, the Church of St. John the Evangelist was built, which was later demolished.
At the end of the 19th century, every Wednesday, peasants from neighboring villages and villages gathered on the square to arrange the most populous bazaar in the upland part of the city. In Soviet times, the malls were slightly shifted towards Belinsky Street and were called "Srednoy".
Previously, the square had other names: Novaya, Arestantskaya, Novobazarnaya, named after May Day, and finally, Maxim Gorky Square in Nizhny Novgorod.
Present
Now on Gorky Square in Nizhny Novgorod, a square is broken, and a transport ring passes around it. Nearby there are many residential and office buildings with cafes, restaurants and shops.
The main attractions of the square are:
- Monument to Maxim Gorky. Architects - V.V. Lebedev and P.P. Shteller, sculptor - V.I. Mukhina.
- Communication House - General Post Office.
In 2012, the first and only metro station in the Upland was opened on the square, which is also a kind of attraction. Thanks to the opening of this station, traffic jams in the area were significantly reduced.
How to install a monument to Gorky
The monument was erected rather slowly. In 1939, the city authorities announced an All-Union competition, the winner of which will be given the opportunity to develop a monument project. The contest was won by V. I. Mukhin, who was also the sculptor of the monument “Worker and Collective Farm Girl” in Moscow.
Due to the outbreak of war in 1941, work on the monument was completed only in 1947, after the seven-meter bronze sculpture of the writer was cast in Leningrad. The monument found its present place in 1952. It was then that the square began to be called the square of Maxim Gorky.
