Uspenskiy Lane served as a passage to the Uspensky Church from Ilyinskaya Street. It has been known since the early 17th century. The city's first regular plan of 1770 proposed its elimination. However, it was vital for the internal connections of the residents of Ilyinskaya Hill, and so it survived the urban transformation of Nizhny Novgorod in the 18th century. Under the plan of A. A. Betancourt and V. I. Geste of 1823–1824, two short streets continuing one another were projected from the Church of the Myrrh-Bearers to the Ilyinskaya Church: Mironositskaya Street (from Lykova Damba to Ilyinskaya Street) and Uspenskiy Lane. According to the Nizhny Novgorod plan of 1839, the building lines of Uspenskiy Lane were to be straightened, and a rectangular square was planned near the Uspensky Church. However, realizing these designs would have required the treasury to acquire considerable plots of land from private owners. As a result, despite repeatedly drawn-up "projects," Uspenskiy Lane retained largely the outline of its historically established built environment.