Shkolnaya Street
Shkolnaya Street (Russian: Школьная улица, Shkolnaya ulitsa) is a partially pedestrian street in Tagansky District of Moscow and connects Dobrovolcheskaya Street in the west with Rogozhskaya Zastava Square in the east. The street's heritage area consicts of two-storey 19th century buildings.
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Historically, it was known as First Rogozhskaya Street, the main trading street of the former Rogozhskaya
History
Coachmen's sloboda
Rogozhskaya
By 1848, First Rogozhskaya Street, one block south from the main Vladimirka road, was firmly established as the principal trading street of the sloboda (this is evidenced by black
Advent of railroads
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The 1861 opening of a
In 1910, the city built an
First Rogozhskaya street was renamed Shkolnaya (literally School Street) in 1923; in the same year nearby Second Rogozhskaya became Bibliotechnaya (Library Street). The 2007 Streets of Moscow reference does not cite any particular reason for the renaming apart from abstract "cultural change" following the
Reconstruction
In the 1970s and 1980s, most of the historic Rogozhskaya Sloboda itself was demolished by the Soviet regime and replaced with concrete high-rise buildings. The westernmost blocks of Shkolnaya Street, too, disappeared to make way for a regional Sberbank office. The rest of Shkolnaya Street, however, was earmarked to become a refurbished pedestrian "historical zone", not unlike Arbat Street on a smaller scale.[7] Reconstruction began in 1985 and continued until 1989. Two-storey buildings on both sides of the street received a facelift, with groundfloor windows and gates imitating 19th century shopping outlets; a look at the back of these houses reveals facadist rebuilding in concrete and modern masonry.
The street, however, did not become a shopping attraction; the plan to open an ethnographic museum failed;[7] the buildings on Shkolnaya are used for offices and on weekdays the "pedestrian" street is taken over by parked cars[7] (transit traffic through Shkolnaya is physically blocked by concrete barriers but the street is accessible through side alleys). On weekends, the eastern half of Shkolnaya Street becomes a marketplace. In 2007, the city issued a permit for Moscow's first legitimate downtown flea market to be held there.[13]
References
- ^ Daria Chernyshova (October 10, 2008). "Soviet streets". The Moscow News.
- ^ a b Taplin, Phoebe (2010). Olde-worlde streets in Russia’s capital Archived 2011-10-13 at the Wayback Machine. The Moscow News, April 8, 2010.
- ISBN 978-5-98051-041-1
- ^ a b Kolodny, p. 227
- ^ a b Andey Vorontsov (February 10, 2005). "Nevidimye vokzaly Moskvy (Невидимые вокзалы Москвы)" (in Russian). Gudok.
- ^ Kolodny, p. 229
- ^ a b c d Kolodny, p. 228
- ^ Ivanov, chapter 5
- ^ Ivanov, chapter 13
- ^ Ivanov, chapter 15
- ISBN 5-94282-432-0., p. 580.
- ^ Ulitsy Moskvy (Улицы Москвы) (in Russian). Moskovsky Rabochy. 1964. pp. 399-402.
- ^ Billing, Rebeccah (2007). Calling All Bargain Hunters. The Moscow News, August 23, 2007
Sources
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- Mikhail Ivanov (1999). Moskovsky Tramvay: Stranitsy Istorii (Московский Трамвай: Страницы Истории) (in Russian). GK Mosgortrans.
- ISBN 978-5-7117-0176-7.