Samarskaya embankment: photo and description

In this brief essay, we will look at whatis the Samara embankment. The photo and description of this attraction of the Volga city will be presented below. In the meantime, to keep the intrigue, let's say that the embankment appeared much earlier than Samara itself. “It’s understandable,” will say those who know that natural objects were formed millions of years earlier than the first human settlements.

But we are talking about the fact that Venetian merchants are still in1367 marked on the map of the Volga convenient pier near the village (or farm?) Samar. The city appeared at this place much later. Only the first security fortress, designed to protect the following vessels along the Volga, was built in 1586. So it turns out that the embankment of Samara appeared two hundred and twenty years before the city.

And this is not its only advantage. Samara embankment is the longest on the Volga and, probably, the most beautiful and equipped. It cascades down to the river and has a length of more than four kilometers.

The history of the Samara embankment

Many believe that the arrangement of the Volga RiverIt began only with the thirties of the last century. Say, before Stalin, Samara had no embankment. But this opinion is wrong. The arrangement began in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Indeed, until 1850 Samara embankment was a sad sight. It was built up with hoards of the local poor, port warehouses, merchants' warehouses. This spontaneous building interspersed with boards and logs, which were unloaded from ships just to the shore. This not only did not paint Samara, but also represented an epidemiological threat to its population. Therefore, in the summer of 1852, the provincial road and construction commission of Samara commissioned the architect Firsov to develop a plan for the embankment arrangement. Work began in two years.

First Samarskaya Embankment

The city authorities first took uparrangement of slopes to the Volga. The Moscow post road followed the river to the floating bridge. Two more descents were laid on the streets of the Cathedral and Factory (now Molodogvardeiskaya and Ventseka, respectively). An important contribution to the arrangement of the Samara Embankment was made by the subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Alfred von Vacano. In the spring of one thousand eight hundred and eightieth year, he signed a contract with the city government for the lease (for a period of ninety-nine years) of the land plot for the construction of a brewery. Thus was born the Zhiguli plant, known today to many lovers of beer.

Factory buildings Alfred von Wakano built inAustrian style, and the red brick building was another attraction of the embankment of Samara. And ten years later, another architectural decoration appeared - the chapel of the saint and the Moscow Metropolitan Alexy.

This little church was built according to the project of architect A. A. Shcherbacheva in the "Russian" style. The small head of the chapel on the tent in the shape of an octahedron and with white stone ornaments was clearly visible from the Volga. The building stood at the Resurrection (now Pioneer) descent.

Construction of the thirties

In tsarist Russia, it was impossible to orderto deprive people of housing in order to equip the river bank and save it from buildings. Therefore, up to the thirties of the twentieth century, the Samara embankment was a sloppy housing neighborhoods of the poor, interspersed with beautiful new slopes to the Volga.

But in 1935 the situation changed. The embankment project was developed, according to which all the buildings were to be demolished. Already in the thirty-ninth year, the area between Vilonovsky and Nekrasovsky slopes was completely cleared. The project envisaged not only decorating the coast, but also strengthening it from undermining. It was decided to equip the beach and plant the area between the upper and lower terraces. The beginning of World War II prevented the continuation of work.

Building the fifties

Only in 1954 found the means to continue the embankment. He supervised the construction at this stage of M. A. Trufanov, who envisioned an optical "invasion" of greenery and water surface into the body of the city.

Samara embankment was built gradually. In the fifties, the first stage was completed (between Nekrasovskaya and Vilonovskaya). The whole site, a thousand three hundred and fifty meters long, was covered with a retaining wall of reinforced concrete, lined with granite, which was brought from the Urals. The first section was decorated with sculptures in the aesthetics of the time. In the mid-fifties, a beautiful sandy beach was established and the plot was landscaped.

Samara embankment. Address: whole city

Only the first stage was completed, as immediatelytook up the second. It was built from the fifty-eighth to the sixty-first year. The length of the second stage is almost one and a half kilometers from the CSK basin to the Kinap plant. It is noteworthy that it was part of a plan for the integrated development of the coast - the present Volzhsky Avenue. Promenade alleys interspersed with garden sofas, sports and children's playgrounds, kiosks and summer cafes. Now a light-music fountain is working near the CSK pool, and a cycle path is laid throughout the second stage.

In the seventies, a draft third was developedqueue, which extends from Nekrasovsky descent to the River Station. But this plan was not fully implemented. Instead of four, only one fountain was installed, and a semicircular rotunda was not built at all. And, finally, the last turn - from Osipenko street (Kinap plant) to the Silicate ravine. In this area the coast is not as flat as in the center of Samara. It was decided to break the steep slope with cascading terraces. By the 400th anniversary of Samara (1986), a twenty-meter Ladle stela in the form of a sail under sail was opened on this site. Now this concrete monument is the emblem of the city.

Modernity and future plans

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, no newno queues were built, although the city grew, including along the river bank. But this does not mean that the Samara embankment was abandoned. Photos show that it has become even more beautiful. The asphalt here is replaced by paving slabs, new lanterns are installed, bicycle lanes are laid. In addition to the available monuments, new ones have appeared. A plan for the construction of a new, fifth line has been developed. It stretches from the stele "Ladia" to the street. Lieutenant Schmidt.