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Hospital
No. 2
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Zone D
- An intersection of two main
streets of the city – Karl Marx and Lenin Streets – is the
center of the capital of the East Siberia. The direction of Karl
Marx street that before 1920 was called ‘Pershpektivnaya’, later
‘Bolshaya’, shows the fortification line of the old city –
“palisad” arranged in the first half of the XVIII century. One
of the gates in ‘palisad’ and a road towards the Lake Baikal
were called ‘Zamorsky’, later the street was called Amurskaya
and in the Soviet period it was named after V.I.Lenin. After the
great Irkutsk fire in 1879 the city authorities forbid construction
of wooden houses in the main streets and starting from 1880s stone
two- and tree-storey buildings were being built in Bolhaya and
Amurskaya Streets.
Out of four buildings in the former
times located on the intersection of the main streets only two have
preserved their initial view: a former building of the Russian-Asian
Bank is currently occupied by a hospital and a former ‘House of
Profit’ of I.I.Giller that, is at present occupied by the Theater
of Young People, and some shops. A beautiful building of the
Alexander-Mariinsk city college has been reconstructed and in the
place of a destroyed German Lutheran Church there is a monument to
V.I.Lenin. Not far from the intersection there are some more
historical and cultural monuments, a buildings of the Drama Theatre,
“Khudozhestvenny” and “Chronicle” cinemas, a Nature
Department of the Museum of Regional Studies being among them.
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