Ilyinskaya Street (colloquial: Ilyinka, Soviet name: Krasnoflotskaya) — a street in the Historic Center of Nizhny Novgorod.
From the earliest times it was the main street in the Zapochaine district.
It is named after the Ilyinskaya Church.
Wealthy merchant-industrialists, craftsmen, and coachmen settled here. In the 1830s it was paved with cobblestones. A considerable number of historic and architectural monuments have survived on it and the surrounding streets to this day.
History
The well-known Nizhny Novgorod historian N. I. Khramtsovsky describes Ilyinskaya Street as follows:
"Ilyinskaya Street begins at the same point as Pochainskaya Street, first running south-west and then turning south, and at the so-called Ilyinskaya gate — where the city's boundary and checkpoint once stood, known in those days as a reshetka (gate-barrier) — it joins Bolshaya Yamskaya. Most of Ilyinka runs uphill; it has two churches: the Holy Prophet Elijah and the Ascension of the Lord, the former not far from the Church of the Kazan Mother of God, at the bend in the street on the right-hand side, the latter in the middle stretch of Ilyinka, on the left.
On this same street stand the Mariinsky Institute for Noble Maidens and the First Children's Refuge.
Most of the buildings on Ilyinka are of stone; almost all the houses belong to the merchant class. Few craftsmen live here, and there is not a single tavern or eating-house — in short, this street is quiet and respectable, like a merchant's wife paying a visit or out for a stroll."