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Bolshaya Street
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The history of Karl Marx street is very interesting. In the second half of XVIII century it was called "Big
pershpektivnaya" because it was the longest and the most direct in the city. In the XIX century its name was shortened to Bolshaya. It is situated on the site of an ancient fortress and "moat" (a wall of logs, dug into the ground and pointed at the top), built in 1726 on the border of the city. Along the moat it was dug trench and it was filled with water. By 1760 the need for a protective palisade eliminated and Irkutsk's magistrate decided to destroy the moat and lay in its place a new street. Almost perfectly straight, street stretched for 2 km from Angara to Ushakovka. |
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Until the middle of the XIX century the street was in the rank of ordinary, so the buildings were mostly
wooden because they considered to be cheap, more comfortable and warm. In the years 1783-1785 Blagoveshchenskaya Church was built of stone. For a long time the street was dirty, difficult passable during rain and dusty in dry weather. In "Sketches of Eastern Siberia P.P. Rovinsky described it in the 70-ies of the XIX century: "On the main street there are up to 5 stone houses, 2-3 small restaurants, 3 photos, a lot of signs junk shops, sausage and drinking establishments, watchmakers' . In 1859 the means of the merchant JS Haminova lights were installed with oil lamps, and in 1910 they brought electric lights. From 1873 on the street there were some exchanges of passenger carriages, and in 1910 - an omnibus communication relating Znamenskoye suburb- Train Station. After the construction in 1869 a wooden bridge over the Big Ushakovka street becomes the main thoroughfare, which connected Znamenskoye suburb to the city center. Today, its length is 2,350 meters. |
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