Malaya Pokrovskaya Street (Vorobyovka) — a street in the area of Gorky Square, running perpendicular to Pokrovka and Zvezdinka Street.
Historical background
Among locals it is still commonly known as "Vorobyovka" — named in honor of Yakov Zinovyevich Vorobyov (1885–1919), a party official who served in 1918–1919 as chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate Cheka (Extraordinary Commission).
The street follows the contours of the ancient timber-built Great Ostrog of the Upper Posad. Its northern boundary was recorded on the 1770 plan of Nizhny Novgorod, but as a street running from Bolshaya Pokrovskaya to Monastyrsky Ravine it was formally laid out by A. A. Betancourt and V. I. Geste only in 1823–1824. The alignment of Malaya Pokrovskaya and its intended function were substantially refined by the city plan of 1834–1839, when the street was developed into an urban thoroughfare linking the Murom–Arzamas road with the bridge across the Oka, and Monastyrsky Ravine was transformed into Pokhvalinsky Descent. After that, Malaya Pokrovskaya was rapidly built up with stone buildings, chiefly to designs by the city architect of the 1840s–1850s, N. I. Uzhumedsky-Gritsevich.