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At the crossroads of Karl Marx and Lenin streets the renovated monument to Lenin stands. Few of residents
know that this place previously was occupied by the building of Evangelical Reformed Church. First Lutheran Church in Irkutsk was wooden. It was built in 1826 on the corner of the Spasskaya and Savinskaya streets near the office of Russian-American Company. Since then, they began to call the street Spassko-Luteranskaya. In a fire in 1879 the wooden building of the Lutheran church burned down. They resumed the construction in the mid 80-ies Õ1Õ century, but already in the stone. The work was completed in October 1885, the author of the project was the architect G. Rosen. The church was closed in 1919, later it was occupied by a student teacher's college dorm. Its library, which was in two large cabinets in the gallery, on the order of the Director of the Institute was sent to the scrap. The church was completely dismantled in 1952 before the opening of the monument to Vladimir Lenin (September 1952). |
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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. |
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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. |
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