Lenin Street

The western part of Lenin Street (eastward up to its intersection with Bolshaya Sovetskaya St.) was previously called: Blonnaya (by the name of the nearby Blonye Garden) before 1869, then Kirochnaya — from the Lutheran Church built on the south side of the street, later — Pushkinskaya. East of the intersection the street forked, skirting the Odigitria Church from the north and from the south, that why it bore a name Malaya Odigitrievskaya. Further the roadway went down the slope into a ravine and then up to its opposite side. This part was called Kozlovskaya Gora (lit. goat’s mountain). Its current name Lenin Street earned in 1924.