Sergievskaya Street is one of the oldest streets in Nizhny Novgorod. Prior to the General Land Survey of the city in 1784–1787, it wound its way from Plotnichny Lane through Ilyinskaya Street to the monastery of the same name, "at Petushkovo." According to the city plan of 1799, it was proposed to cut a straight extension of Osypnaya Street through the Zapochayaniye area. The project was never carried out, however. The idea was revisited during the drafting of city plans for Nizhny Novgorod in 1804, 1824, and 1839, but the concept remained unrealized until the mid-19th century, as the stretch from Ilyinskaya Street to Lykova Dam had an uneven, gully-ridden slope. More importantly, it would have required the state to acquire substantial plots of private land (belonging to the Listovs, the Lvovs, and others). In 1852, architect N. I. Uzhumedsky-Gritsevich drew up a routing plan for Sergievskaya Street as far as Lykova Dam. This plan, too, was shelved "pending further review" and was incorporated only into the city plan of 1881. After that, Sergievskaya Street acquired essentially its present-day alignment and reached the slope of Pokhvalinskiy Descent.