Darvina Street
Darvina Street (Дарвiна in Ukrainian, Дарвина in Russia) - the street is named after w:Charles Darwin.
In the first decade of the XIX century near Kaplunovskaya Church was the estate of the artist Kulikovsky. Later, when a street arose here, it was named Sadovo-Kulikovskaya.
Today's Darvina street, which received this name in 1917 (very influential Kharkiv anarchists at the beginning of 1918 called Sadovo-Kulikovskaya Anarchy street. - see Darvina, 11 and 25 )
Here for many years the famous Ukrainian poet lived and died P.P. Gulak-Artemovsky (professor, from 1841 - rector of Kharkov University). Reinforced construction began at the end of the 19th century, in connection with the opening in 1885 of the Technological Institute - the current NTU "KhPI", and in 1891 - the Commercial School.