Krasny Avenue

Krasny Prospekt or Krasny Avenue is the central street and major thoroughfare in the city of Novosibirsk, Russia. Until 1920, it was known as the Nikolaevsky Prospekt or Nicholas' Avenue. Its length is about 7 km. It runs across the central part of the city starting from the right bank of the Ob River and terminates in the vicinity of Severny Airport. The main square of Novosibirsk – Lenin Square – is a part of Krasny prospekt, as well as Sverdlov and Kalinin squares.

Buildings and structures

Odd side of the street

No. 1а – Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
No. 1 – Zapsibzoloto Building
No. 3 – The School of the House of Romanov
No. 5 - Novosibirsk State Art Museum
No. 9 – Mashtakov House
No. 11 – Kraisnabsbyt Building
No. 13 – Sibstroyputi Building
No. 15 – Mayakovsky Cinema
No. 15/1 – Buzolina House
No. 17а – Saint Nicholas Chapel
No. 23 – City Trade House
No. 25 – Business House
No. 27 – Gosbank Building
No. 29 – Oblpotrebsoyuz Building or Sibkraisoyuz Building. The building located on the corner of Krasny Avenue and Ordzhonikidze Street
No. 31 – Residential Building
No. 33 – Residential Building
No. 41 – The Federal Service for Technical and Export Control
No. 49–51 – Kuzbassugol Building Comlex
No. 53 – Army Staff Building
No. 57 – Residential Building
No. 59 – Residential House of the Red Army Officers
No. 63 – Officers' House
No. 67 – Siberian Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineral Resources
No. 75 – Dormitory of Novosibirsk State Academy of Water Transport
No. 101 – Royal Park Shopping Centre
No. 157/1 – House of Project Institutes
No. 167 – 'Progress' Palace of Culture
No. 171/4 – 'Energia' House of Culture

Even side of the street

No. 6 – Sibmetaltrest Building
No. 8 – Residential Building
No. 10 – Prombank Dormitory
No. 12 – Saburov House
No. 16 – 100-Flat Building
No. 18 – Building of the Government of the Novosibirsk Oblast
No. 18/1 – State Concert Hall named after Arnold Katz
No. 22 – Houses of Surikov and Molchanov
No. 24 – Residential Building
No. 26 – Russian-Asian Bank
No. 26а – Novosibirsk Oblast Youth Library
No. 28 – Dinamo Residential Complex
No. 30 – NII-39 Residential Building
No. 32 – House of Lenin
No. 34 – Prombank Building
No. 36 – Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre
No. 38 – Building of State Institutions
No. 44 – Aeroflot House
No. 46 – Oblsberkassa Building
No. 48 – Gymnasium No. 1
No. 50 – Dom Byta
No. 52 – Novosibirsk State Medical Academy
No. 54 – Institute of Mining of the SB RAS
No. 56 – Oblplan House
No. 60 – Residential Building
No. 62 – 'The General's House'
No. 68 – The Wedding Palace
No. 72 – Novosibirsk Aviation Technical College
No. 78 – Residential Building
No. 82 – Sovnarkhoz Building
No. 84 – Institute of the Federal Security Service
No. 184 – Novosibirsk Urban Planning Project Institute

Transportation

Metro

Four Novosibirsk Metro stations are located on the street: Ploshchad Lenina, Krasny Prospekt, Gagarinskaya and Zayeltsovskaya.

Notable residents

Boris Galushchak was a director of the Novosibirsk Instrument-Building Plant. He lived in the 100-Flat Building.
Nikolay Gritsyuk was a Novosibirsk painter. He lived in the 100-Flat Building.
Yevgeny Meshlkin was an academician, famous Soviet and Russian cardiologist and cardiac surgeon. He lived in the 100-Flat Building.
Yevgeny Mravinsky was a Soviet and Russian conductor. He lived in the 100-Flat Building.
Alexander Tikhonov is a Soviet biathlete, multiple Olympic medalist. He lived in the 100-Flat Building.
Nikolay Cherkasov was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the USSR. He lived in the 100-Flat Building.