Sovetskaya Street

Sovetskaya is the central street of Orenburg, the historical center of the city, where many attractions, historical buildings, educational institutions, museums and theaters are concentrated. The street is a pedestrian zone and an important center of public life and leisure of citizens.

The street begins from Pushkinsky Boulevard - the embankment of Orenburg, which is more often called "Belovka". Here is a monument to Valery Chkalov, and concentrated some of the first urban stone buildings of the mid-eighteenth century.

The semantic center of the Soviet can be considered a square named after Lenin, in which there is a monument to the leader of the world proletariat and a charming old rotunda gazebo. behind the square is the building of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a little further down the street is the regional museum of local lore. Opposite the square you can see the massive building of the Orenburg Drama Theatre, on the opposite side of the street there is a puppet theater.

Further along the street you can see an architectural monument of the eighteenth century - Gostiny Dvor and a tower with chime clocks built not so long ago, but organically integrated into the architectural ensemble of the street. The pedestrian part of the street near the square with a fountain in front of the regional administration building ends.