Mogilev. Pedestrian Leninskaya Street.

In the historical center of Mogilev there is a pedestrian Leninskaya Street, which is about one and a half kilometers long. The street began to form back in the days of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Originally it was called Windy, and in the days of the Russian Empire – Bolshaya Sadovaya. After the revolution, Dekabristov and Leninskaya Streets.

In order to see all the architectural monuments and interesting places of the pedestrian street in Mogilev, a demanding tourist may not have enough time. After all, there are numerous ancient architectural monuments and several museums here.

From the beginning of the street there is the Wedding Palace, which was built in the 19th century and at first there was a city Duma. If you walk a hundred meters down the street, you will see on the right an 18th-century building with the date of construction written on the pediment – 1790! Once there were 2 Orthodox monasteries on Vetrenaya Street: Bogoyavlensky and Spassky. There is nothing left of Bogoyavlensky, and only a few years ago a memorial plaque was installed in its place. And on the contrary, on the right side, the palace of George Kanisky and 2 outbuildings with monastery gates remained from the Spassky Monastery. 

In the Theater Square, formerly Muravyevsky, along Leninskaya Street there are three former ancient hotels: Paris, Tulskaya and Bristol. Behind the College of Art is the building of the former S. Bogush-Sestrantsevich Palace and the Zuckerman Synagogue.

At the intersection of Leninskaya Street with Pozharny Lane there are 2 pre–revolutionary buildings: on the right is the two-storey Simkhovichy apartment building, where there was a private girls' gymnasium, a notary office and shops, and diagonally - Levin's apartment building with shops and offices. A hundred meters to the right is the Bobovik apartment building, where the Kuleshov Moscow State University building is now.

The next building is the art museum named after V. Byalynitsky-Biruli, or the house of the nobleman Anoshka. The 17th century building where Emperor Joseph II of Austria stayed in May 1780. On the left are the following Art Nouveau buildings: the apartment house of Zivannikov, where the art school is now, and the house with Atlanteans – this is the building of the former Credit Society.

On the right, the next two-storey classicism-style shopping center "Alice" is a former men's gymnasium. Many outstanding figures, scientists and writers studied here: poet M. Gromyko, scientist O. Schmidt, General V. May–Mayevsky, the first president of the Hawaiian Republic M. Sudilovsky and many others.

Further to the right is an orange building - Vidorovich's apartment building, the house is decorated with mascarons.

A hundred meters away is the Square of Stars with a Stargazer. Here you can make a wish if you hold the hand of a Stargazer. And you can find a chair with your zodiac sign. There are interesting and beautiful buildings of different eras on the square: a 3-storey red brick building - the Kozlovsky apartment building, the Rodina cinema dominates the square, to the right of it is a constructivist building of the 30s – Budyonny House, and 2 houses of post–war construction – the post-war so-called Stalinist Empire, or Neoclassicism.

Further along the way on the left is the Art Nouveau bank building, built at the beginning of the 20th century, and the corner two-storey house of the Gubernskaya Hotel, the former private girls' gymnasium of Zalesskaya, completing the pedestrian part.