Darvina Street

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Darvina Street (Дарвiна in Ukrainian, Дарвина in Russia) - the street is named after [Charles Darwin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin].

In the first decade of the 19th 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 )

On this street, for many years lived the famous Ukrainian poet P.P. Gulak-Artemovsky (professor, from 1841 - rector of Kharkiv University). Intensive construction began at the end of the 19th century, in connection with the opening in 1885 of the Technological Institute - the current Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, and in 1891 - the Commercial School.


Source

This article in Russian