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History of Aleksandrovsk


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ived in the dugouts at 15-th and Aluminum districts. The District border is limited by Verkhnya Ulitsa (Upper st.) in the south and by the hydroelectric power in the north. At the intersection between Lenin ave. and Verkhnya Ulitsa. architect I.L. Kosliner set the tower in seven stories. The tower supposedly indicates the entrance in the Sotsgorod from the south (from Alexandrovsk). Closer to the Dam the second tower was raised (the authors are I.L. Kosliner and L.Ya. Gershovich). These two towers point out a straight line of the central street of the district.

The names of the streets have changed several times. The original name of Metallurgist Avenue was Enthusiasts Alley. This road leads to the factories. At that time, they believed that people going to the plant have only positive feelings like joy, pride and enthusiasm. At the end of the road stands a sculpture of the metallurgist (sculptor � Ivan Nosenko, 1963). During the German occupation, it was named Shevchenko Avenue; later it was renamed Stalin Avenue; and after his death it got present name of Metallurgist Avenue. Lenin Avenue originally had the name Libkhnet Avenue. "Forty Years of Soviet Ukraine" Street was once called Sovnarkomovska Street and during the German occupation Hitler Alley.

Big Zaporizhia

The District #6 is a small part of the global project called Big Zaporizhia. This project was designed for the city, to enable half million people to live in seven different areas � Voznesenka, Boburka, Kichkas, Alexandrovsk, Pavlo-Kichkas, Island Khortitsa. Each district must be independent from the others and at the same time part of ? united city. The city line should be stretched along the banks of the Dnieper River in 22 km.

The Dnieper railway bridges

The location of the Kichkas Bridge was in the flood zone upstream of the hydro-electric dam. Initially it was planned to disassemble it and rebuilt it in another location. But expert advice was that
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