Chumbarov-Luchinsky Avenue (Chumbarovka)

Chumbarov-Lucinscky avenue or Chumbarovka as it is called in Arkhangelsk is a pedestrian boulevard in the heart of the city of Arkhangelsk. It is a «preserved street», where one can find the objects of the northern architecture, the sculptures of the famous writers and their characters, try local gingerbread — kozulya, visit the small museums, cafes and shops, and just have a good time.

   
At the end of the 18th century, this street was known as Bolshaya Messhchanskaya, then it was named Sredniy (due to its location between two long avenues: Troitsky and Lomonosova). Then it was named Pskovsky, and in 1921 it received the name of Fyodor Stepanovich Chumbarov-Luchinsky — a revolutionary, poet and journalist who once lived on the street.

In the early 1980s, a decision was made in Arkhangelsk to create a «preserved street» on Chumbarov-Luchinsky Avenue to place here all types of houses that could be found in the development of Arkhangelsk in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There were several dozens of such houses, all significant and important in different ways. Some remained in historical places, some were moved, and some were recreated again.

In addition to architectural monuments on Chumbarov-Luchinsky Avenue, there is the Museum of the Arkhangelsk gingerbread kozulya, the visit center of the Malye Korely Museum in the House of the Commercial Assembly, the Pomor Artel cultural center, the literature museum, as well as the monuments to the northern writers Stepan Pisakhov and Boris Shergin, captured in the middle of creating the next epigram to Kozma Prutkov riding a huge burbot, to the Pomor peasant Senya Malina.

Photo E. Dolgoborodova, S. Kornitskaya