Herzen Street

The street appeared on the city map in 1835 Walking along it, you can study the architectural history of the city. Here, you can find wooden houses from the early 20th century, Stalinist architecture, and modern buildings. On Herzen Street, you’ll find the 19th-century hospital of the Alexandrovsky factory, the house of the founder of Soviet Karelia, Edward Gyulling, a Stalinist-style residential building with decorative stucco on the balconies, a 1950s grocery store with a domed roof, and the cultural center of the tractor factory with columns in the Stalinist empire style.