Cathedral Square
Description:
The cathedral square was called in the past Ilyinskaya by the temple located on it. According to the plan of regular development of Ryazan in 1780. The Cathedral Square was conceived as the administrative center of the city.
In 1786, the square was built for the provincial government (now the building of the shoe factory "Ryazanvest"). Behind the building of the present places in the spring of 1899, on the 100th anniversary of A.S. Pushkin, Ryazan gymnasium students laid a large square with many trees. It was surrounded by a light wooden fence and was called “Pushkin Boulevard”.
In the center of the modern Cathedral Square is now a park and a chapel is built in honor of the 900th anniversary of Ryazan.
After 1917, the Cathedral Square was renamed the Soviet Square. In the 1990s of the last century, it again became a cathedral.
October 28, 2007 in the center of the Cathedral Square opened a monument to Oleg Ryazansky (sculptor Z. Tsereteli).