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Streets Historical and professional Navarinskaya Street , was named in honor of the sailors who participated in the Navarra Battle. During the 1920s many Nikolaev streets were renamed. At that time, this became Trotsky Street. Soon, the name was changed again to Krestinternovskaya Street in honor of Peasant International. But that name lasted only until the late 1930s, when it was renamed yet again and became Mayakovski Street, honoring poet and revolutionary V.V. Mayakovski. The original, historical, name was reinstated in 1983.
Tavricheskaya Street (now Shevchenko Street). - The original name honored a vast Tavria which began at Nikolaev. In the early days, Navy musicians lived here. There are remnants of a fortress (Hovogrigorievskaya) that predates the creation of the city of Nikolaev. During the 1920s, the street was renamed to honor the Ukrainian poet T.G. Shevchenko. Nikolskaya Street - was named for St. Nikolay Chudotvorets, miracle-maker and "most merciful of the saints," patron of sailors, fishermen, and traders. Many naval authority buildings and houses of navy officers were in this street. Admiral I.M. Deribas, the city-provost and the chief architect lived there. Also situated there were workshops, the arsenal for military ground forces, Aleksandr College and the Greek bazaar. In the 1920s the street was renamed to honor Rosa Luxemburg, a German revolutionary. But in 1996 the original name was reinstated. Many streets were named for their particular features or where they led. Examples of this approach to naming include Sadovaya (Garden) Street, Leskovaya (Forest) Street, Shosseynaya (Highway) Street, Abrikosovaya (Apricot) Street, and Peschanaya (Sand). In Russia and elsewhere, there is a long tradition of naming streets after the professions of their inhabitants. Such names have a second level of meaning in Nikolaev, because they reflect inhabitants' specialties within the profession of shipbuilding. Some examples: Konopatnaya (Caulkers) Street, Kuznechnaya (Smiths) Street, Stoliarnaya (Joiners) Street, and Plotnichnaya (Carpenters) Street. Many streets in the outskirts of the city were named for specific shipbuilding crafts.
Slobodskaya (Outskirts) streets were named from first to ninth. This part of the city adjoined Admiralty lands and was known as Admiraltyskaya Slobodka (Admiralty Outskirts). Those who worked at the Admiralty and built vessels, known as "Admiralty workers," lived in these streets. Later, the edge of the city pushed beyond these original "outskirts." After the Second World War the Slobodskaya (Outskirts) Streets were renamed. The Third was named Dzerzhinsky Street in honor of the revolutionary F.E. Dzerzhinsky. Sixth Slobodskaya (Outskirts) Street was renamed Komsomolskaya Street, and the Ninth Slobodskaya (Outskirts) Street was renamed after Second World War commander Marshal A.M. Vasilevskyy. Ingulnaya (Ingul) Street (now Kotelnaya Street) took its name from its direction, it led to the Ingul River. By the 1870s, vessels being built at the foot of Ingulnaya Street were steam powered so the street was renamed Kotelnaya (Steam).
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