Ulyanova Street (formerly Tikhanovskaya) — runs from Minin Square to Trudovaya Street. Parallel to Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street.
History
A straight street oriented toward the Dmitrievskaya Tower of the Kremlin. It took its name from a church of the same name. Until the 1860s, private estate buildings blocked it at Osypnaya Street, and the stretch from Blagoveschenskaya Square to the Osyp embankment continued to be known by the old name Pecherskaya Street.
During the replanning of Nizhny Novgorod under the 1881 city plan and the execution of major leveling works, the street was opened for through traffic.
In the Soviet era it was renamed in honor of Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov — a democratic educator, organizer, and administrator of primary education in mid-19th-century Russia, and the father of Lenin. In 1863, Ulyanov was transferred from Penza to the Nizhny Novgorod gymnasium as a teacher of physics and mathematics. His apartment was also located on the gymnasium premises (the building now occupied by the pedagogical institute).
Interesting Facts
- Ulyanova Street is home to a psychiatric and neurological hospital. In 1889 it was founded by Kashchenko, a pioneering democrat in the treatment of nervous disorders. The hospital and its colony in Lyakhovo served as meeting points and safe houses for Nizhny Novgorod Bolsheviks.
- In 1812, the historian and writer N. M. Karamzin lived here at No. 8.
- At No. 42, the celebrated Russian writer, ethnographer, and historian P. I. Melnikov-Pechersky was born in 1818.