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Our walking we'll start from the embankment of the
Angara River, where today a monument to Alexander III stands. This monument was built in honor of the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. They placed it in the middle of the Siberian section of the track, on the bank of the Angara River. But this monument was prepared for a short life. After 12 years, with the establishment of Soviet power, in Irkutsk the transformation began, during which the monument also had suffered. In the May Day holiday in 1920 the statue of Emperor Alexander III was toppled from its pedestal. |
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At the beginning of the street on the left side is the
White House. Its project was developed in St. Petersburg. The building was built in the first quarter of the XIX century for the family of the Irkutsk's merchant and the first mayor - Mikhail Vasilyevich Sibiryakov. His project was brought from St. Petersburg, its author is the well-known architect Quarenghi, who designed the Smolny Institute in the northern capital. Many legends about luxury decorations and interiors of this palace are preserved. But after the death of the family head, his heirs were forced to sell the building the city administration. |
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In the building next door (Karl Marx, 1) today is one of
the buildings of the Irkutsk State University. This house is one of the oldest buildings of the city, preserved after the fire of 1879. It was built in 1855-1861 after the design of the first Buryat architect AE Razgildeev and was intended for the Institute of noble maidens - the first female secondary school in the city. On the wall there is a state university memorial plaque: "Here in 1955-1960 gg. a prominent Russian playwright Alexander Vampilov studied." |
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The building of the Irkutsk regional museum opens the
prospect of Karl Marx Street at the right side. This building in Moorish style was built in 1883-1891 gg. by the architect B. Rosen for accommodation of the East-Siberian Department of the Russian Geographical Society. It was the first research institution in Eastern Siberia. In 1879 the fire killed the old building department, together with the rich collections and exhibits, that were collected for many years of studying the region. It destroyed also a unique library. |
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The building of the regional drama theater majestically
fit in a street ensemble. It was built in 1894-1897 after the design of the St. Petersburg architect VA Schroeter. Irkutsk city theater was built on the site of burned on Oct. 28, 1890 wooden theater. The theater building is located in such a way that its entrances out on three sides - on Bolshaya, Trinity Street and Kantoninsky lane. The theater was built by the architect B. A. Schroeter who won the first prize in the competition. The foundation was laid on May 18, 1894, and on August 30, 1897 a new theater was consecrated and opened. |
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The entire block between the streets
of Marat and Lenin took the building of the former branch of the Russian-Asian Bank, built in 1910-1912, designed by the architect VI Kolanowski. Today it is a hospital. |
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At the end of XIX century the
entrepreneur Giller built between Amurskaya and the 1st Soldier (now Lenin and Red Army) streets the complex including a hotel and restaurant "Russia" (from 1907 - Hotel "Central" and restaurant "Modern"), the cinema-concert hall "Globe" and retail space from Grand Street. In 1921 - 1922 years in the premises of "Globe" worked "Young Theater, organized by NP Okhlopkov and PV Tsentnerovich. They staged "Princess Turandot", "Flood," "Devil's Disciple." |
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The next house is the cinema "Art", before
the revolution "Decadence", owned by industrialist Yagdzhoglu. |
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Today's building of a night club "Stratosphere"
until recently was known as a cinema "Giant", it was built in 1910 and renovated in 1950 with a complete change of facade and an annex on the site of a square and a small cash halls. Before the revolution there was one of the biggest cinemas of our city "Illusion" of a company Don Othello and Alekseev. In the courtyard theater is a two-storey stone house (N 15a), built in the late 60-ies of the last century by Gerngardt. There since 1878, was one of the oldest publishing houses, which belonged to the merchant AA Sizykh. |
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At the corner of Sukhebaatar was built in 1910-1912 by the architect N. Boikov an apartment house of
fon Lyude (ex-shop "Fabrics" and state institutions). On the opposite side of the street Sukhebaatar is a former hotel "Central Deco that was built in 1870-1873. In the early 1930's two floors were completed. Since 1931 there is the East Siberian (Irkutsk) Geological Survey, later it was known as the industrial association "Irkutskgeologiya. Shop N 1 (N 21) "supermarket" before the revolution belonged to the merchants Zamyatin. At the corner of Bolshaya and Litvinov streets, there is a building constructed in 1908 by the architect A. Kuznetsov for the largest employer Tyazhkovskiy. Before the revolution a wing of the building on the street 6th Soldier (Litvinov) was occupied by the "Grand Hotel" and cafe "Arcadia", a wing on Bolshaya street belonged to a branch of the Russian-Chinese Bank, and then to the private school EA Gortseyt. Under N 23 are two buildings currently occupied by a department of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. The building of the shop "Souvenir", was built in the late 80-ies of the last century and belonged to the merchant's wife VP Kelh. In 1896 it was bought by the Siberian Commercial Bank. From 1920 to 1934 the Irkutsk branch of the State Bank of the USSR was here. The next building was built in 1894 by the industrialist AB Vollerner, who rented it to the Transbaikal railway. The next three houses (N 25, 27, 29), currently occupied by Irkutsk Regional Health Department, a pharmacy and a former garment factory, and now the shops were built in the years 1870-1878 by the merchant VV Zazubrin, the photographer Malmberg and the merchant IP Katyshevtsev .In Zazubrin's house, that was bought in 1883 by JS Haminov and donated to the city, was placed before the revolution Mariinsky shelter for girls. After a fire in 1879, the Malmberg's house bought the merchant VV Zharnikov and opened the third private pharmacy. When in 1890 the town theater burned down, before the end of the season performances staged in the Katyshevtsev's house. At the corner of Proletarskaya and Karl Marx streets was the Chapel savior. It was laid August 30, 1866. On the same day, four years later, it was solemnly consecrated to the memory of preserving the lives of Emperor Alexander II on April 4, 1866. The chapel was installed on the plans and drawings of Lieutenant N. Porokhov, iconostasis, icons and other accessories were made out of St. Petersburg. The building cost the city about 45 500 rubles. In 20-ies of the century it was dismantled, still later there was a monument to Vladimir Lenin from granite. The quarter between Chekhov and Volodarskiy streets is occupied by a residential complex of railway workers, it was built in 1935. Until 1922 the Annunciation Church and small houses were here. Outside of the Annunciation street (now it is named after the Petrograd Bolshevik Volodarskiy) was built in 1783-1785 years the stone Annunciation Church. In it began its ministry deacon and then priest, a prominent missionary and social activist Innocent Benjamin, who in the end of life became the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna. During a major fire June 24, 1879 a large church bell melted and on the ground it formed a block of copper weighing about a thousand pounds. After Kalandarishvili street is the house N 43, which before the revolution was a mutual insurance company
property from fire. The building was constructed on the funds of the Society in 1899 by architect AP Artyushkov. From 1927 to 1935 in the house there were Political Prisoners and Exiles Society and the Society of Old Bolsheviks. Both societies were closed in 1935. After the superstructure and the reconstruction of a building in 1937 a cinema "Pioneer" was opened here. At the corner of December's events street is the building, built in 1881 - 1883 years by the architect V. Kudel'skii commissioned by a widow H. J. Kolygina. Since 1900, it was rented to the Society of clerks, and since 1909 to the Society of Consumer employees and workers of Transbaikalian railroad. Today in this building is the house of officers. Previously, Karl Marx Street came out to Znamenskiy (Maratovskiy) bridge and completed the cinema "Mirage". In 1929-1930 instead of the houses the plant after Kuibyshev was built. |
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