Zhandarsky Lane — after the Patriotic War of 1812, as the importance of the police grew under the leadership of A. Kh. Benkendorf, a regiment of gendarmes quartered here began to play a notable role in the life of Nizhny Novgorod.
By personal decree of Nicholas I in 1826, a stone manège building was constructed within the Kremlin for the garrison horses to exercise, and somewhat earlier stables had been built above the ancient Monastyrsky (later Pokhvalinsky) ravine.
The passage leading to them from Bolshaya Yamskaya came to be called Zhandarsky Lane (first marked as such on the city plan of 1823–1824), while the small street perpendicular to it, running along the cliff edges, was called Oboznaya Street.