Like any Ural city, Chelyabinsk from its very foundation has been "the supporting edge of the state, its keeper and blacksmith." And the place of attraction of the main events of any city is its central square. It has become such a center Revolution Square in Chelyabinsk .
Formal ...
It is an absolutely symmetrical space, surrounded on all sides by monumental buildings in the style of the Stalinist Empire. And yet the look Chelyabinsk Revolution Square only won from this.
The main place is reserved for the space where parade parades take place, the so-called parade ground. In the middle of the south side of the parade ground is a monument to V.I. Lenin - an indispensable attribute of the key space of all cities of the USSR. But Chelyabinsk residents are not going to part with it, they honor history.
On the left and right sides of the monument stands were erected, from where, during the parades, the responsible persons, friendly smiling, waved their hands at the passing workers.
... and an informal center
After parades or on weekdays in the evenings, young people come here, like decades ago, to socialize, to hang out, so to speak.
Behind the stands and the monumental leader Chelyabinsk Revolution Square continues the square with paved paths, blue spruces, a frame of shrubs and a beautiful luminous musical fountain.
Framed in granite and Kasli castings, he, as before, delights in its accessibility for children in the hot summer season.
Socialist realism
Further, the space intersects with Academician Timiryazev Street and there is a small square with benches and flowerbeds - Theater Square. Climbing the stairs, we approach the Chelyabinsk State Academic Drama Theater. Nauma Orlova.
This building is already strikingly different in style from everyone else - it was erected in the period 1973-1984. A little earlier, in 1968-1972, 8-storey buildings were erected according to the project of I. Talalay. They seem to complete the Revolution Square from the south.
Like all buildings in the city, perimeter houses Chelyabinsk Revolution Square, there are numbers. And in each building are located very important organizations for the city and region.
For example, the building at Revolution Square, 7 Chelyabinsk designed as one of the two components of the complex "House of Political Education." Now there are mainly commercial structures that rent office space.
The second building of this complex is located on Revolution Square, 4 Chelyabinsk . Here, as originally planned by the architects of the Chelyabgrazhdanproekt Institute, serious organizations: ministries, departments, public services.
Both buildings are made in the style of socialist realism and personified the bright and rapid leap of the Soviet state to a brighter future.