Korolenko Street (formerly Kanatnaya) — a historic street of Nizhegorodsky District, crossing Novaya Street and running from Gorky Street to Belinsky Street.
Named in honor of Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (1853–1921) — a Russian writer, representative of realism, journalist, and public figure. From January 1881, Korolenko lived in Nizhny Novgorod for 11 years.
History
Designed by architects I. E. Yefimov and P. D. Gotman in 1836–1839. The street skirts deep waterlogged ravines and was therefore laid out with a bend in its alignment, running from Polevaya Street to the future Napolno-Monastyrskaya (Belinsky) Street. Originally the street was called Kanatnaya ("Rope Street") after the rope-making factories located here from 1787, which were gradually shut down following a decree of 1824. After G. I. Kizevetter marked out the building lines, the street was developed slowly and in stages. By the late 1850s, local residents wished to have a stone Church of the Three Saints for their quite remote part of the city. This led to a change in the urban-planning configuration at the intersection of Kanatnaya and Nemetskaya Streets: a small square had to be created beside the church, which was completed by 1860. Within its new boundaries, the street was incorporated into the 1881 plan of Nizhny Novgorod. In the late 19th century, the writer V. G. Korolenko lived on Kanatnaya Street in the house of architect V. M. Lemke.