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by Джикару
General information
We are in front of the building known for most of Yaroslavl citizens as Ars-Cinema. The cinema rested in peace in 1994 and now there are “Ars-Forum” and Yaroslavl Chamber Theatre there. However, the original mission of the building was far from arts.
It was built in 1913 as House Of Mutual Help For Private Official Labour. The meaning of the title is rather simple. It was a combination of special interests club and special helpdesk for so-called “small business”. It is said the building has never played such role. Because during The World War I there was a hospital there. And the Ars-Cinema was arranged there almost immediately after the Revolution.
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This is a new post in our new sub-category of the category News (like Details or Front Doors in Stories). Now we are going to post interesting trends of our city Yaroslavl. Today we want to write about Internet access.
We know that in most European countries there are lots of cafes and restaurants with free Wi-Fi access. In the same time our catering just begins to provide it. Yes, there were some access in the past but it was paid or with some restrictions (speed and so on).
Today we can see sings which say us about good and absolutely free Wi-Fi access.
Another cafe provides not only wireless internet but also netbooks (it costs about $3/hour):
We suppose it’s a good practice for our cafes and exactly an excellent trend!
by Evgeny Pavlov
Two month ago, 27th March, we opened this website for testing and writing first posts. Yes, it is necessary, because nobody wants to see an empty website.
Initially, Elina and I have thought up several sections of the blog: photos, stories, history, music, news and podcasts. Today some of posts can simultaneously belong to two or even three sections. Sometimes I can’t decide which part of the website is more suitable. I wanted to expand our blog with new section, but we decided to remain the structure intact. Nevertheless, there are lots of project within the blog. For example, there are Yaroslavl details and Yaroslavl Front door. During two month we wrote more than 45 post and sent lots of postcards with the view of Yaroslavl. By the way, if you want to receive a postcard then contact us.
Within a short time there will be some new projects. I think that you will be interested in these posts.
So, I want to make a short summary of some our interesting existed posts (three for each section).
News:
Stories:
History:
Music:
Photos:
And our experiment with podcasts:
I hope you carry on reading our website. We say thank you to all our visitors!
by Yan Levin & translated by Evgeny Pavlov
We continue our series of Yaroslavl front doors which made by LJ user yanlev. One of our readers complained of bad photo quality, so I’ve decided to correct some of yanlev’s photographs. Possible in the future we will take photos on our own.
It’s Sobinova street (ул. Собинова), 48.
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The red double-decker bus is the sign of England like Queen, Big Ben and football. But there was double decker in USSR! By the end of 30th of the previous century, there were two levels trolley buses YaTB-3 (ЯТБ-3, it’s abbreviation of Yaroslavl Trolley Bus) on Moscow streets. They were made on Yaroslavl automobile plant. After 70 years there are no those trolley buses, no those plant which produced them (now it’s Yaroslavl Diesel Engine Plant “Avtodiesel”). How did they appear and why did they disappear?
The first YaTB-3 was made on June, 22th in 1938 year and in four days — the second. Initially there were only two machines, but in 1939 else eight were produced.
The basis of a construction was two levels city trolley bus (the model of 1935 year) of England company “English Electric Company”. At the first time the design was changed a bit for our conditions: the steering wheel was transmitted from the right side to the left side. English variant had only one back entrance, but YaTB-3 had both front and back doors. The trolley bus was 9,5 meters in width and 4,7 meters in height, could contain 72 sitting passengers (32 — on the first floor and 40 — on the second) and 28 standing passengers but only on the first level. The engine had 75 kilowatt (101 hp) and could reach 54 k/h.
At that time YaTB-3 had lot of new technical features: a ventilation, an electrical heating, a stylish cabin, an indicator board “There are no seat left”. The trolley bus was all metal.
Unfortunately, experience suggested that it was very complicated to control this machine in our Russian condition. Also there were lots of disadvantages of the machine: high center of gravity, low height of the cabin, bad driving in the winter and others.
By the end of 1939 year Moscow government decided to discontinue the exportation of the trolley buses. Alack, there are no any example of those trolley buses — it was the only double-decker trolley bus which was produced outside England.
Addition materials concerning Yaroslavl double-decker on the Internet (all in Russian):
We carry on our investigation of Yaroslavl front doors. So, the Object #3
Address is Moskovsky prospect (Московский проспект), 12
It’s a neat three-storey penthouse which opens a small enfilade (a line of houses) of nice historical buildings on the right side of Moskovsky prospect (if you go from the city center).
Do you want to know more? Let’s look into the front door of this building on Moskovsky prospect →
Three storey of this massive house are dominated in this part of prospect. The facade is richly decorated: since the beginning of time it’s the main entrance of the city. The house was built in the second part of the 19th century and the whole 20th century it was as dwelling house. Only by the ends of the century there was a computer shop on the first floor. Now this computer company owns the entire building.
The door.
Modern. Plastic “Rehau”. Stylish. Modish.
Near the main entrance there is an unclaimed another door. It’s more older the the previous one.
The staircase.
There is a corridor (hall) from the door before the staircase. The corridor is preserved without any changes:
Walk up, and now both flight of stairs are in all their beauty:
The staircase remains intact from the time of the construction of the building. These interesting things are wonderfully preserved, reminding us of those times when the whole upstairs had a carpet track.
Pay attention to the authentic legs of the banisters:
The landing.
Indeed, both the staircase and the landing are the best example of a real front door. Only have seen the landing, one can understand the design of an architect.
The front door in this building is the key design element. The designers gave so serious attention to it that they took it outside as a jetty (bay window).
Here it is, on the left, a special bay window for the front:
This architecture method allowed to give an imperial scope to the front door. The landing can contain a small room. But more possible there was a big plant there.
In any case, this space was unobtrusively filled without losing its core function: to provide space and scope.
The modeling has remained on the walls and ceiling. It visually divides this side into parts. Probably, there were wall paintings. The “circle” of the modeling indicates the place of the chandelier.
The trick.
The window. The whole front door serves this window. It’s gigantic,
as two man’s height.
Unfortunately, the window frame has been lost. But we can see the marble windowsill.
In spite of a number of losses, we can exactly imagine how the building looked by the ends of 19th century.
It’s a real front door: gorgeous, spacious and bright.
We used the material of LJ user yanlev.
It is the second post of Yaroslavl Front Doors. In the previous time I told you about the front door on Kalmykovykh street, 5. Today the narration will about a front door on the same street.
So, object #2, address Kalmykovykh street, (ул. Калмыковых), 3.
The third building is the first of the set of working barracks. Initially, there were three-storey buildings but after there were four-storey. In spite of the front doors of different buildings are similar (they were made by the one author), the third building is different from fifth. It is tidier and even there is intact windows!
Why did it happen? Let’s investigate the front door of third building →
Probably it can be defined by the following fact. A women who lives in that building said some quite interesting information:
— Our home is three hundreds years old, %#!
— The fifth is being totally resettled, there are 40 new flats, %$$#
— But there is no resettlement in that house across the street.
Probably, the residents of the fifth building are living “as at the last time” before the final resettlement and the residents of the third house are more careful with their own flats.
The door.
The door is unaltered for all buildings. There are no a combination lock and intercom: it is clear.
The staircase.
There is a similar version (like in fifth building). It is a beautiful hammering of the late of XIX century. There is a permanent and elegant handrail. We can see a load-bearing structure of the staircase which implements a decorative function.
Such hammering staircase is also sexual! If you are standing in the very bottom near the entrance door and a girl with spike heels are walking down the stairs, the whole front door is filled with a sexual clatter for three minutes.
Who will be now from the top? WHO? The whole staircase is sexual vibrating. And no matter that your hopes and aspirations will be completely crushed… Main thing is anticipation.
Summary: the staircase is very loud and noisy, but it’s not always harmful (for example, you live on the third floor than you can know about your visitors three minutes before).
The landing.
It is more quality than the landing of fifth building. Most of the window are untouched and we can imagine the author’s concept — good illuminated front door. The floors are not so dirty that we can explore an embossing of tiles.
Moreover, even the glazing of corridor doors remains intact. The fact that the door wasn’t burnt and the windows remain intact, tell us about the high resilience of spirit and purity of thoughts of the inhabitants of this front door.
This belief, however, has been broken when several empty bottles of vodka was seen on windowsill. But it is a nuance.
The trick.
At last, the third floor, attic hatch is not locked. According to all, the inhabitants of the building are not very fond of door locks and in general all things affecting the breadth of the spirit.
Climb to the attic, and, indeed, there is that which is difficult to get in other similar buildings of Yaroslavl. There is a huge rafter which holds the roof of the working barracks. It is more than 120 years old.
The rock paintings..
This inscription in full, at its root, destroys the very scientific sexology. (It’s some words about sex in Russian. If you want to know more details, don’t hesitate to contact us.)
Thanks to LiveJournal user yanlev for this amazing material.
I am glad to open our new set of stories of our website. Recently I found out about quite interesting Russian LiveJournal in which a author writes about front doors (street door, or in Russian парадная, paradnaya, or in contemporary Russian подъезд, pod’ezd). The author pays attention to details. He walks in different places of Yaroslavl and takes photographs inside old houses and buildings. Let’s start with the first Yaroslavl’s front door.
The object #1, address: Kalmykovykh street (ул. Калмыковых), 5.
Working barracks, well-known by residents as “korpusa”, were built in 1880-1890 years as dwellings for employees of Yaroslavl’s Big Manufacture. There are eight red-brick buildings (three-storey and four-storey) and one white building. In present only four red and white are inhabited.
Buildings in Perekop are whole stratum of Yaroslavl’s history. Starting as working barracks, then they have evolved into the most known communal flats, source of crime and permanent headache for government and residents. They are a cause of Perekop’s bad reputation. This is understandable.
Let’s see the history of this place →
Approximately 4000 people have lived in these nine buildings before the revolution. Three-storey building could accommodate three hundreds and four-storey — four hundreds. The number of inhabitants have been increased in 3-4 times after “compression” of Soviet Government. Thus there were at least twenty thousands people on such small territory. No professors, no chief engineers, no academician.
There was a reconstruction and resettlement in 1960th. The main part of inhabitants have departed for Bragino, but remaining people dished it out to whole Yaroslavl. Today the resettlement is practically over. There is no bygone atmosphere, but there is rests of the material culture.
Well, go to the front door of building number 5 on Kalmykovykh street.
The door.
The staircase.
Staircase is the main decoration of a front door, and it is difficult to find such staircase in our city. It was made of cast iron!
It is the eternal material, so stairs are not destroyed and they kept the original image in spite of dreadful quarrels (there were lots of dead persons in Soviet period).
Pay attention to the legs of the handrails! But initially they were made for houses of unskilled workers!
The landing.
Apertures between stages are really great. The height is around six meters!
There are famous passages on both sides of the staircase. The passage divides all buildings: sixteen rooms on one sides and sixteens on another. Such room was called kamora (the chamber) and it was a space 4m×8m (32m). One room was for one family of a worker.
In Soviet era each kamora was separated on three parts and now it was for three families. The photo of separated kamora:
One family is on the average 3-4 persons, thus 9-12 per room, 32 rooms per floor, so 280-380 people per one floor. At the end of passage there were kitchens and lavatories. The photograph of 1950th:
In 1960th after reconstruction the rooms have been turned into an individual apartment with all conveniences inside rather than outside.
In post cases these apertures was closed with bricks and fastened with nails.
The common door:
The prank.
The internal strainer armature as a helm:
The buildings were built with the latest technologies of the time — using the fixture (the armature).
The rock paintings.
Yes, it’s a very funny verse… with informal words.
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