Chinese guests get acquainted with Gomel
- Published: Tuesday, 11 February 2025 12:50
On November 15, 2024, teachers of the Department of Slavic and Romano-Germanic Languages N.V.Kulazhenko, E.L.Baturina, I.I.Volskaya, N.A.Lyubochko organized a guided tour for teachers from Guangzhou Railway Vocational College who are interning at our university, as well as Chinese students studying at our university. the city center and Gomel Park.
Did you know that
- Until 1861, modern Sovetskaya Street was called Proboynaya. It seemed to "punch through", crossing old Gomel from the southeast to the northwest. After 1861, the street was renamed Rumyantsevskaya in honor of the former owners of Gomel. The renaming of Rumyantsevskaya to Sovetskaya took place on May 6, 1919.
- Mogilevskaya Street (now Kirova Street) was the main transit highway of Gomel from the very beginning. An acquaintance with the plan of Gomel in 1799 suggests that Mogilevskaya Street was formed along the old road to the north, in the direction of Mogilev.
- Zamkovaya Street (now Lenin Avenue), unlike Proboynaya and Mogilevskaya streets, was formed and grew slowly, as it did not lead anywhere. It is not surprising that even in the 40s of the 19th century, there was a pasture for horses next to the Gomeyuk ravine, on the left side of the street.
- The rapid formation of Zamkova Street towards the northwest began after the Libavo-Romenskaya (1873) and Polesskaya (1888) railways were laid through Gomel. Since that time, Zamkovaya Street has acquired "strategic" importance, since it connected the city center and the palace with the railway station.
- Modern Victory Street was formed in the 80s and 90s of the 19th century. It was originally called Transverse. From the very beginning, she walked from Rumyantsevskaya Street and soon reached the Burnt Swamp. It was built up with small, poor wooden houses. The ancestors of the inhabitants of modern Pobedy Street in pre-revolutionary times traveled through the Burnt Swamp on boats, along the shore of the swamp there was a small street inhabited by railroad workers.
- In 1898, a beautiful men's gymnasium building (today the BelSUT building) was built on an area of one tenth. A beautiful garden was laid out around the gymnasium.
- Peter Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky, the hero of the Russian-Turkish War, was a favorite of Empress Catherine II. His generalship talent was marked by an expensive gift: on July 10, 1775, by decree of Catherine II, the Gomel starost was transferred to Rumyantsev's possession.
- The formation of the modern Gomel center should be linked to a very severe fire that destroyed the old Dorumyantsevsky city in the first year of the 19th century.On the initiative and with the direct participation and financing of the owner of Gomel at that time, Count N. P. Rumyantsev, a new general building plan was developed in accordance with the requirements and rules of the urban art of classicism.
- In 1827, the owner of Gomel, Count Sergei Petrovich Rumyantsev, mortgaged the surrounding lands in a State-owned loan bank. Gomel was bought by the treasury, and in 1834 Field Marshal Ivan Fedorovich Paskevich purchased the estate with a palace for 800,000 rubles. Several local legends are associated with the name of Ivan Fedorovich. It is said, for example, that the prince had two special cellars in his Gomel palace. One was with wine, the other with gold.
- In 1856, Fyodor Ivanovich Paskevich took possession of the Gomel palace and most of the city. His wife Irina Ivanovna Paskevich, the last Gomel princess, lived a long life. On one of the winter days of 1928, the 90-year-old princess was seen off on her last journey by the most devoted residents of the city. Princess Paskevich has left a memory of herself through the charitable deeds she performed in the city and its surroundings. At the initiative of Irina Ivanovna, Paskevich's private funds supported an orphanage for orphaned girls, an orphanage, a trusteeship for the poor and an almshouse for elderly women. At the same time, Irina Paskevich personally selected the most capable children in orphanages and provided them with education.
(Source: Rogalev, A.F. From Gomeyuk to Gomel. Urban antiquity in facts, names, and persons / A.F. Rogalev. – Gomel, 1993. -216 p.)
Associate Professor of the Department of Slavic and Romano-Germanic Languages
E.L. Baturina