Bolshaya Sadovaya street

Bolshaya Sadovaya street - the central street of Rostov-on-Don, one of the oldest and most beautiful streets of the city, in particular, on Bolshaya Sadovaya there are such attractions as the Town House, Musical Theater, Chernova's House, Central Department Store. Also on B. Sadovaya there are such important administrative institutions as the city, regional administration and the administration of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District.

The main street of Rostov-on-Don began to be built in 1781, however, then it still did not have a name. But on the master plan, dated 1811, the chain of buildings has already been designated by Zagorodnya Street. History says that until the middle of the 19th century this place was used for dumping garbage and removing impurities. Landscaping of the Great Garden was taken up only in 1864, when outdoor street lamps were installed on the street. Then, a water pipeline was built here, in 1901 the first electric tram was launched in Rostov-on-Don. In the past in Rostov-on-Don there were two streets Garden - Big and Small, they were parallel to each other in location. However, after the renaming of Bolshaya Sadovaya street in Friedrich Engels in the Soviet period, and Minor - in the street Alexander Suvorov historical name returned a central street in the 1990s. One of the sections of Bolshaya Sadovaya Street was nicknamed by local residents "Rostov Broadway". This segment of Budennovsk to Voroshilov Avenue, which is decorated with unique buildings, each of which bore the name of its owner. Today, the guests of the city can see only a part of the original architectural masterpieces that existed earlier on the central Rostov street. This is the House of Margarita Chernova, the building of the mayor's office, the State Bank, the Moskovskaya Hotel and other notable buildings.