PUSHKIN STREET

In 1899 when century of A. S. Pushkin's birthday was celebrated, one of the major streets of new city at the request of its inhabitants was called by the name of the Great Russian poet. Earlier it was the Camp prospectus - a path, which was directed from Konstantinov square (now Amir Temur square) aside summer camps of Turkistan armies. The radial prospectus began directly from picturesque square planted with trees aside mountains. The first building on the right side (where it is a complex of hotel " Uzbekistan " now days) - Volgsko-Kamsk commercial bank, one of five largest banks operated in old Turkestan.

Along Pushkin Street since 1902, the line of the horse railway (horse tramway), and since 1913 - a tram was laid. The line was single-track with characteristic sidings at stops.

One of the most remembered buildings of street - the most characteristic sample fashionable in the beginning of XX century modernist style - Pushkin drugstore of firm Kaplan. Now there is a bank in strongly reconstructed building.

Other place of attraction of Tashkent people in Pushkin Street is - so-called "new telegraph". It was constructed specially for post-cable office in 1911 and functioned up to the end of XX century.

Closer by the end of street (now on this place there is an overpass) in a vista, between two lines of high poplars, many-domed building of a cathedral of Sergiy Radonejskiy could be seen very well. Erected in 1897, the cathedral remained up to middle of 30th years of XX century.

Now the Pushkin street is stretched up to Salar aryk and comes to an end by Pushkin square where there is a monument of the great Russian poet.