Bolshaya Yamskaya — a street in the Historic Center of Nizhny Novgorod, it was a continuation of Ilyinskaya Street.
History of the Matter
In 1784, previously exempt yamskiye (postal) households were ordered to be subject to state taxes. Those unwilling to pay were directed to settle on common pasture lands. This process also affected the local rope-making industry. By 1787, weaving and spinning mills had occupied the area from Pokrovskie Prudy Gorky Square) to the future Krestovozdvizhensky Monastery. A considerable gap remained between the built-up area and Bolshaya Yamskaya Street, which ran along the rope factories.
Bolshaya Yamskaya was designed in the late 18th century by architect Ya. A. Ananyev.
The plan of A. A. Betancourt and V. I. Heste of 1823–1824 initiated the formation of the Zapochaine section situated between Ilyinskaya Street and the Monastyrsky (Pokhvalinsky) Ravine. Roughly parallel to Ilyinka, Gogol Street was laid out, and the present-day alignment of the section of Malaya Pokrovskaya Street toward the Monastyrsky Ravine was established. At the same time, Malaya and Tretya Yamskaya streets were cut through parallel to Bolshaya Yamskaya Street, and three streets running toward the Oka riverbank were laid out perpendicularly to them, one of which was the future Maslyakova Street.
The final widths and alignments of the streets of Zapochaine were fixed by the imperially confirmed plan of Nizhny Novgorod of 1839. In August of that same year the district was badly damaged by yet another fire, which provided the opportunity to design an entire complex of residential buildings along Ilyinskaya and Bolshaya Yamskaya streets (architect G. I. Kizevetter). Within a short period (1840–1843) the streets were built up using long-term government loans. The result was an architectural ensemble of the Nikolaevian era, which has survived — with some alterations and additions — to the present day (houses nos. 64–100 on Ilyinskaya Street).
In general, the final formation of the area under study, including its peripheral sections, was completed with the implementation of the Nizhny Novgorod master plan of 1881. In the late 19th century, a section of Novaya Street was extended to Bolshaya Yamskaya Street, part of the ravine at the corner of Pryadilnaya and Malaya Yamskaya streets was filled in, and the space thus created was named "Pryadilnaya Square."
The organization of the rectangular square around the Mironositskaïa Church was completed, and from 1892 it was officially named "Mironositskaïa Square." In the early 1880s, a bridge was built over a branch of the Stupina Gora ravine, connecting Voznesenskaya Street with Pokhvalinskaya Street.
During the Soviet period, the historically established character of the built environment underwent a number of changes. The churches located within the boundaries of Zapochaine were closed, and the surviving church buildings were converted to other uses. A number of streets were given new names, and Ilyinskaya (Krasnoflotskaya) Street was merged with Bolshaya Yamskaya into a single street.