Gazetny Lane

It measures 2,1 km (1,3 miles) long, belongs to Oktyabrsky and Leninsky Districts and before the October Revolution was known as Kazansky Lane.

[3] The house number 9 at Gazetny Lane was place of living of Ryurik Rok, the leader of modernistic literary society of poets called poety-nichevoky (Russian: поэты-ничевоки).

History of this rather little-known association originates in performances that took place in artistic café the Basement of Poets – a Bohemian place in small basement in the house number 46 at the same lane (Gazetny Lane and Bolshaya Sadovaya Street intersection) at the beginning of the XX century.

On 21 April Clementine Churchill deigned to pay it a visit and complimented citizens of Rostov-on-Don of keeping it clean (historical plaque at Bolshaya Sadovaya Street near Prospect of Chekhov reminds of this event).

Among of the most important ones there was exhibition Provincial Avant-garde by the comradeship of artists from Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don called Art or Death (Russian: Искусство или Смерть, tr.