Svetlanskaya Street, Vladivostok, Primorskiy kray, Russia

Svetlanskaya Street, Vladivostok, Primorskiy kray, Russia 

The “spirit” of Vladivostok is its unusual landscape. The city is dispersed over the hills; there are not straight streets because they disappear between the tops that compose the city landscape.

The buildings are amphitheater like placed on the slopes of the hills. You can observe half of the city from any point of the hills. Due to the irregular coastline of the Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, which forms numerous small bays and peninsulas, the view that will open before you is really unique.

The main street of the city is Svetlanskaya Street. It was also the first street in Vladivostok. It was named after Svetlana frigate on board of which grand prince Alexey Alexandrovich visited Vladivostok.

Today Svetlanskaya is a main tourist street. Many historical building constructed at the end of the 19th – at the beginning of 20th centuries, museums and monuments, central shops are located on the street and street adjacent to it. We tell some words here just about some of them. If you come here you’ll see how beautiful they are.

10, Svetlanskaya street houses Versailles Hotel built in 1895. One of the first city cinemas called World of Illusions occupied the ground floor of the building. An administrative building located 14, Svetlanskaya street, was earlier occupied by Modern Hotel and Medved Restaurant.

You can see an ancient building with arch on the opposite side of the street, 5, Svetlanskaya street. There is an entrance to the picturesque yard keeping centenary memories under this arch. Arka (Arch) modern art gallery is located here. 13, Svetlanskaya street is a building of the oldest Vladivostok’s Hotel Zolotoy Rog (Golden Horn) constructed in 1895 – 1902.

The building of Primorye Museum of Regional Studies is located 20, Svetlanskaya street. It was built from 1902 till 1906 by large entrepreneur V.P. Babintsev. There were shops and offices on the first two floors and comfortable apartments were on the third floor.

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