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Bezymyannyy ("Nameless") alley

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Kronshtadt, Bezymyannyy per.

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"Bezymyannyy" ("Nameless") alley near the Andreevsky Garden did not appear in Kronstadt right away. At first, the area was cleared and improved for a long time. And only during the years of reconstruction of the Andreevsky Cathedral (1874-1877) a park surrounded by a wooden fence was laid out in place of the deserted area.

Later, on the initiative of Father John of Kronstadt, who by that time had become the rector of St. Andrew's Cathedral, the wooden fence was replaced with a metal grate. This is how the appearance of Bezymyanny Lane, which is the shortest street in Kronstadt, was formed.



One side of Bezymyanny Lane consists of two stone buildings closely adjacent to each other, and the other side in former times was the fence of St. Andrew's Cathedral. Both houses, Nikitin's and Zeleny's, although they look out onto Bezymyanny Lane, are listed as Karl Marx Street and Lenin Avenue, respectively. Nikitin's house is known for the fact that, starting in 1865, the printing house of the Kronstadt Herald newspaper was located here.



On January 1, 1869, the first bookstore in the city was opened here. In 1900, a telephone exchange was installed in Zeleny's house. After the Great Patriotic War, a men's hairdressing salon was opened here. Then the premises were converted into an international telephone service. On the house where the sign "Kronstadt Herald" once stood, there are marble plaques listing the most important events that took place in the history of Kronstadt. On the roadway of the pavement there is a granite slab with a plan of Kotlin Island carved on it. And right there is a cauldron, a copy of those cauldrons that were used in the Swedish navy for cooking at the beginning of the 18th century. During heavy pitching, such a cauldron was suspended over the fire, and the porridge did not spill out of it.



According to one version, during his first visit to Kotlin Island (October 1703), Tsar Peter Alekseevich came across such a cauldron, apparently left here by Swedish sailors, and decided to name the island Kotlin Island. The opening of the very first pedestrian zone in Kronstadt took place in 1999, and the following year 12 floor lamps with energy-saving lamps were installed along the street.

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