it changed its names depending on time and events, zakharyevskaya after the name of the minsk governorn the second half of the 19th century, residents also called it minsk nevsky prospekt, following the example of the russian capital. there were so many important objects on the street that that it can safely be called a business center before revolutionary minsk. hotels switzerland, moscow, grand hotel, and that’s not counting the europe hotel at the very beginning of the street. the first modern cinema appeared here. the decoration of the street was the four-story building of the postal and telegraph office. and at the intersection of lenin and karl marx streets there is a house that is probably familiar to every resident of minsk. commemorative plaques on its façade indicate how many prominent political and cultural figures once lived here. front entrance, staircase, a little pompous, solemn, and how many famous people have climbed it, alexander chervyakov, kirill mazurov, petrus brovka , felix derzhinsky also stayed here when he was in minsk, we will also look into one of these apar

it is difficult to imagine anything more terrible than our zakharyevskaya street, which behind the goldend komarovka, a sticky solid swamp, it is in no way possible to pass through it. minsk leaflet, 1907. it's amazing what it is the places that semyon residents and guests of the capital loved so much at the beginning of the last century wrote about this. is not it? well, komarovka is not only a market, it is only part of a large area in the center of minsk, and its history is fascinating; an interesting journey through these places awaits us. this area got its name from the village of komarovka, which was located near minsk. until 1812 she. belonged to the princes radevil, then passed to the no less famous vankovich family, by the end of the 19th century it was included in the city limits. some 100 years ago, it was a large working-class area, a small town with shacks and streets. now this is the center of the capital, it began to be developed in the 1930s, it all began with the formation of the square on the general plan, it was listed as such, komarovskaya was called that until 1956, b