10 points
6 km
2.5 hours
History of the Street
Until 1918, Vologda's Victory Avenue was made up of three streets: Gostinodvorskaya, Gromovskaya and Tsarekonstantinovskaya. Later part of it was called Paradnaya Gostinodvorskaya (until 1918), then Svobody (Freedom, from 1918), Khlyustova (from 1936) and Papanintsev (from 1938). The avenue got its current name on May 5, 1965, for the 20th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War. Until 1918, the site of today's Victory Avenue was occupied by three streets: Gostinodvorskaya, Gromovskaya and Tsarekonstantinovskaya. The beginning of the avenue (from today's Mira Street to Leningradskaya Street) was called Paradnaya Gostinodvorskaya Street until 1918. Together with the Stone Bridge, Gostinodvorskaya Square and Afanasyevskaya and Kirillovskaya Streets, it formed part of the city's shopping district. In 1918 Gostinodvorskaya Street was renamed Svobody (Freedom) Street. By a decision of the Vologda City Executive Committee of March 26, 1936, Svobody, Zasodimskogo and Khlyustova Streets were merged into a single Khlyustova Street. It kept that name for only a couple of years: on April 21, 1938, the City Executive Committee renamed it Papanintsev Street in honor of the expedition of brave polar explorers led by Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin. On May 5, 1965, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Soviet people's Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the Vologda city committee of the Communist Party and the City Executive Committee jointly decided to rename Papanintsev Street as Victory Avenue.