Ilyinka Street (in the XIV-XV centuries – Dmitrovka Street, in 1935-1990 – Kuibyshev Street) – a street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow, on the territory of Kitay-Gorod. One of the oldest streets in Moscow. It runs from Red Square to Ilyinsky Gate Square and lies between Nikolskaya Street and Varvarka. The numbering of the houses begins in Red Square.
At the end of the XIX century, Ilyinka turned into the main business street of Moscow – the center of financial life and wholesale trade. A new building of the Stock Exchange was built, and shopping arcades and monastery courtyards were rebuilt per modern requirements. In 1893, Alexander Pomerantsev built the Upper Trading Rows (GUM) modern building. A little earlier, in 1891, Roman Klein designed the building of the Middle Trading Rows on the opposite side of the street, which, unlike the Upper Rows, were intended for wholesale trade.
In 1875, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra rebuilt its courtyard (No. 5), erecting a five-story apartment building with a turret, which for a long time remained the largest civil building in Moscow. Renting out the premises of the farmstead brought large incomes to the monastery. In particular, on the second floor of the courtyard, there was the Novotroitsky Tavern, a favorite meeting place for merchants and stockbrokers.
The street was built up with the facilities of the largest banks in Russia: the Volga-Kama Commercial Bank (No. 8, 1890, architect Boris Freidenberg), the St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank (No. 9, 1910, architect Adolf Erichson; now the Ministry of Finance of Russia), the Azov-Don Bank (No. 9, building 2, 1912, architect Adolf Zeligson), Moscow Trade Bank (No. 10, 1882, architect Boris Freidenberg), Russian Foreign Trade and Siberian Banks (No. 12, early 20th century, architect Roman Klein; later archive of the Central Committee of the CPSU, now – Rosarkhiv and the State Archive of Recent History), the Moscow Merchant Bank (No. 14, 1894, architect Boris Freidenberg). At the end of the street, the complex of the Northern Insurance Company, now the representative office (until 2009) of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (No. 21-25, architects Ivan Rerberg and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, all 1911) stands out with a turret with a clock.
Notable buildings
On the odd side
No. 1/3/2 – Upper Trading Rows (1890-1893, architect A. N. Pomerantsev, engineers V. G. Shukhov and A. F. Loleit), a cultural heritage site of federal significance. Now the Main Department Store.
No. 3/8, pp. 2, 3, 4 – Warm trading rows (at the base of p. 2 is the building of the Novgorod Bishop’s Metochion of the 17th-18th centuries) (1864-1869, architect A.S. Nikitin), an identified object of cultural heritage. One of the buildings is the Church of Elijah the Prophet (founded in May 1519 by architect Klim Uzhilo).
No. 5/2, building 1 – Profitable house of the Compound of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra (“Trinity Compound”) (second half of the 18th century, 1874-1879, architect P. P. Skomoroshenko), an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. The first five-story building in Moscow.
No. 7/3 – Profitable house of the Joseph-Volokolamsk metochion (1882-1891, architect A. S. Kaminsky), a valuable city-forming object.
No. 9 – Azov-Don Bank (1880s; 1912-1914, architect A.N. Zeligson).
No. 9, p. 1 – The building of the St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank (1910-1911, architect A. E. Erichson). The building is an interesting example of Moscow neoclassicism, which reflected the emergence of new trends in the architecture of the 20th century – constructivism and functionalism.
No. 11/10, p. 1 – House of the joint-stock company ARKOS (1928, architect V. M. Mayat). The building is an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
No. 13/19 – Profitable house of G. P. Shelaputin (House of the Mossovnarkhoz) (1905-1906, architect P. P. Shchekotov; built on with a change in the facade in 1926 by engineers G. D. Zinoviev and A. F. Loleyt), valuable city-forming object. In 2017, it was put up for sale for 3.3 billion rubles (58 million US dollars); it became the most expensive mansion in the center of Moscow.
No. 15 – Profitable building of the Joseph-Volokolamsky Monastery (1875, architect A. S. Kaminsky; 1909), a valuable city-forming object.
No. 15/2, p. 1 – The building of the former office of the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MNVK).
No. 21-23 – Buildings of the Northern Insurance Company.
No. 21-23, p. 1 – Eastern building (1909-1911, military engineer I. I. Rerberg, architects M. M. Peretyatkovich, V. K. Oltarzhevsky), an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
No. 21-23, p. 2 – Western building (1909-1911, military engineer I. I. Rerberg, architects M. M. Peretyatkovich, V. K. Oltarzhevsky, I. A. Golosov; 1930s), an object of cultural heritage of regional importance.
On the even side
No. 4 – Old Gostiny Dvor (1790-1830, architects G. Quarenghi, S. V. Barkov, K. K. Gippius and others), a cultural heritage site of federal significance.No. 6/1 – The building of the Merchant Exchange (1836-1839, architect M. D. Bykovsky; 1873-1875, architect A. S. Kaminsky; 1925 – superstructure, architect I. S. Kuznetsov), an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.
No. 8 – House of the Moscow Merchant Society (“Ambassador’s Compound”) (1889-1890, architect B. V. Freidenberg), an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
No. 8, p. 1 – Profitable house (1887-1889, architect B. V. Freidenberg), a valuable city-forming object.
No. 8, p. 3 – Trading House (1875, architect A. S. Kaminsky), a valuable city-forming object.
No. 8, p. 4 – Administrative building of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1980s, architect P. I. Skokan), now the State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation.
No. 10/2 – House of N. Kalinin and A. Pavlov – Moscow Trade Bank (1785-1790, architect M. F. Kazakov; 1882, architect B. V. Freidenberg). As a result of the restructuring at the end of the 19th century, the house received an eclectic finish with individual motifs of the Italian Renaissance.
No. 12 – Profitable house of I. G. Khryashchev – V. I. Vargin – Serpukhov City Society (1760-1772; 1780s, architect M. F. Kazakov; 1888; 1901-1904, architect R. I. Klein), an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. The building housed the Russian Foreign Trade and Siberian Banks.
No. 14/2 – Profitable house of the Moscow merchant bank with shops and warehouses (1820s – 1830s, architect O. I. Bove; 1894, architect B. V. Freidenberg), an object of the cultural heritage of Moscow.
Nearest metro: Kitay-Gorod, Lubyanka, Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya and Revolution Square.
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