Pozharsky and Minin Square and street-rays
Pozharsky and Minin Square is the main square of Nizhny Novgorod. This space in the city began to form as an area in the XVII-XVIII centuries. At first the area was called the Verkhneposadskaya, Verkhnebazarnaya, and later Blagoveshchenskaya. After a serious reconstruction of the city center, which happened after the visit of the Empress Catherine II in 1770, the square gained a trapezoid shape. From it the main city highways were dispersed by rays.
After the revolution the square was renamed into the Sovietskaya Street, and two churches and a monument to Emperor Alexander II standing on it were blown up. In 1943 the square was named after Minin and Pozharsky - in honor of the heroes of the national militia who came forward against the Polish-Swedish siege of Russia in 1611. Then the monument to Kuzma Minin, a native of Nizhny Novgorod, was also erected here. The Soviet authorities did not make a monument to Pozharsky, as the latter was of princely birth. The main tourist street of the city - Bolshaya Pokrovskaya starts from the square, and on the other side of the square the complex of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin begins.
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