This building, although not an architectural masterpiece, is quite an interesting object. First of all, it is an income house built by a peasant. How did a peasant manage to erect a four-story house in the pseudo-Gothic …

The stone church dedicated to all saints was built in 1817 and consecrated a year later, in 1818. The funds for its construction were provided by merchant Alexei Fyodorovich Ochkina two years before his death; his family…

The old water tower, presumably built in the 1890s, is one of the few towers of the Ryazan-Ural Railway that has retained its original roof shape. A similar tower can be seen at the Moscow-Tovarnaya Pavletskaya station, …

On the right bank of the river, near the Kazan church, which was demolished, is the Lebedev Bridge. In the mid-19th century, all the bridges on the Penza River were dismantled for the winter. This was a sensible decision…

The house of Rakhil Isaakovna Slonimskaya was built in 1914, and that same year the "Bristol" hotel began its operations. In the background, a new 9-story residential building can be seen, which houses the "Elektron" an…

The "Grand Hotel" was founded in 1774, when state peasant Yakov Andreyevich Koshelev, who became a merchant from Penza, purchased the estate from the honorable citizen Matryona Nikolaevna Kazitsyna and began construction…

Next to the meat passage, which functioned reliably until 1877, when the meat trade moved to a new market building on Bakunina Street, there was a livestock yard from which meat was supplied for sale. On the eve of the 5…

The building that housed the Ponomarev Gymnasium was constructed in the mid-19th century by the merchant's son Iov Stepanovich Samarin. At the end of the same century, it was acquired by retired notary Viktor Nikolaevich…

In the early 19th century, the house belonged to the merchant of the first guild F.P. Alferov. After several changes of ownership, the building was acquired by the Moscow International Trade Bank.

House No. 12, built in the late 19th century, is a one-story wooden building with a mezzanine. This house was home to the revolutionary A.L. Teplov (1852-1920). A.L. Teplov was born in the village of Argmakovo, which is…