How Velika Zhytomyrska looked like in Kyiv 150 years ago: a historical photo was shown on the network

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The network mentioned how Velika Zhytomyrska Street in Kyiv looked in the 1870s.

The historical photo was published in the “Thirst” community : interesting in Kyiv” on Facebook.

Users noted that the photo shows a place on the corner of V.Zhytomyrska and Volodymyrska streets.

“The fire tower is on the left, and on the horizon is the Mykhailivskyi Gold-roofed Monastery”, “On the right is the tower of the wireless telegraph,” history experts write. Kyiv in the comments.

Velika Zhytomyrska Street is located in the Shevchenkiv district of Kyiv and runs from Mykhailo Square to Lviv Square. It is joined by Volodymyrska, Striletska, Olesya Honchara, Stritenska and Reitarska streets.

This is one of the oldest streets of Kyiv. It originated in the 11th century on the way to Zhytomyr. It crossed the Old City, stretching from the Sofia (Batiev) Gate to the (Jewish) Lviv Gate. In the 15th–18th centuries, together with the modern street of Sichovy Striltsiv, it was called Lvivska, and it is also indicated under this name on the city plan of 1803, drawn up by the architect Andriy Melenskyi.

At the beginning of the 19th century, it was called Zhytomyrska, it consisted of two parts: the lower one — from Pecherska (Lyadska) Gate to Mykhailivska Square and the upper one — to the former Lviv Gate, in the middle of the 19th century the street extended to the current Lukyanivska Square. In 1869, Zhytomyrska Street was divided, its part from Lvivska to Lukyanivska Square was named Lvivska (now Sichovy Striltsiv Street). In the 1870s, the lower and upper parts of the street were named Malaya and Velika Zhytomyrska, respectively (in fact, the street was “disconnected” in 1857 after the completion of the construction of the Places of Attendance building).

In 1919, Horovytsia Street was named (Horvytsia Street) in honor of the revolutionary, one of the leaders of the January Uprising of 1918, Oleksandr Horvytsia. During the occupation of the city in 1941–1943, the name Velyka Zhytomyrska Street was used. The modern name was restored in 1944.

It was fully formed in the second half of the 19th — at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, there were no hotels or furnished rooms on the street, apartments were rented on it mainly by representatives of liberal professions — doctors, scientists, lawyers, artists. Members of the Kyiv District Court, teachers of real, music, and art schools also lived there. Priests and teachers of the Kyiv Theological Academy also had estates on the street. In 1861, it was classified as a 1st-class street, and only stone houses with a height of at least two floors were allowed to be built on it. In the second half of the 19th century. the construction of the street was mostly two- and three-story, and already at the beginning of the 20th century. six- and seven-story buildings appear.