Square of the Revolution

Revolution Square is the central square of Vologda. After the cramped old city streets leading to it, the square impresses with its size – a huge space along which old houses stretch on three sides in a single facade.

At the beginning of the last century, it was called Spasovsegradskaya, and even earlier - Spasskaya and Sennaya. The name of Sennaya Square speaks for itself: here, before entering the ancient Kremlin, the visiting "guests" stopped, there were horse-links, there was a trade in hay, wood, fodder hay.

The houses surrounding the square have a long history. In the building of the present Philharmonic since the beginning of the XIX century housed the Noble Assembly. There was also the first museum of the region - the museum of birth studies. In the XVII-XVIII centuries, three churches appeared on the square one after another - Athanasius of Alexandria, Spaso-Vsegradskaya and Nicholas the Wonderworker. Unfortunately, they were destroyed. In the building of the former house of the merchant Sveshnikov was born one of the founders of Soviet cinema G. Vasiliev. Here in the 20s was first opened "Artelsoyuz" - the first association of famous Vologda lace.

On Revolution Square from the balcony of the City Duma building (now Children's Music School No. 1), Soviet power was proclaimed on December 6, 1917. That is why in the middle of the square there was a monument with bas-reliefs carved on it, dedicated to the revolutionary events in the region. From here the path of Vologda residents on the front of the Great Patriotic War began. In memory of the dead countrymen, the Eternal Flame burns on the square.