Vyatka

Photographs of Vyatka, 1900s–1910s: Spasskaya Street, and the town seen from the river

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Not that it is distinguished by splendid buildings or their own Semiramis’s hanging gardens, and shan’t you find even a single three-storey house in a long row of streets, all unpaved, but there is something peaceful, patriarchal in all its physiognomy

Spasskaya Street, looking east

Postcard photograph, 1910s

The main street of the provincial capital.

Spasskaya Street in Vyatka seen looking east from the Tsarevskaya (Svobody) crossroads, with the buildings of the Vyatka boys' gymnasium on the right; photograph of the 1910s
Spasskaya Street in Vyatka seen looking east from the Tsarevskaya (Svobody) crossroads, with the buildings of the Vyatka boys' gymnasium on the right; photograph of the 1910s

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The whole town, from the river

Photograph, c. 1900s

The landing stage and the centre.

Vyatka seen from the river: the landing stage and the centre of the town, photograph of about the 1900s
Vyatka seen from the river: the landing stage and the centre of the town, photograph of about the 1900s

Public domain · photographer unrecorded · Wikimedia Commons

Its administration sits in a Dom Sovetov.