In the early years of Soviet power, the street was renamed Chernyshevsky Street — a Russian revolutionary and thinker, writer, economist, philosopher.
Born on July 24, 1828 in Saratov in the family of Archpriest Gabriel Ivanovich Chernyshevsky and his wife Evgenia Egorovna (nee Golubeva). In his family, there were a lot of priests.
Without graduating from the gymnasium, he was able to enter St. Petersburg University, and after graduating, Chernyshevsky returned to Saratov and became a gymnasium teacher.
Since May 1853, Chernyshevsky has been living in St. Petersburg, where he became the leading critic of Nekrasov’s magazine Sovremennik.
In the mid-1860s, he became one of the inspirers and leaders of the underground revolutionary organization "Land and Freedom". In 1862 he was arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress. In the solitary cell of the Alekseevsky Ravelin, Chernyshevsky worked on the novel "What to Do?", which appeared in 1863 on the pages of the magazine "Sovremennik", which had just been allowed after an eight-month stop.
After the publication of the novel "What to do?" the pages of legal publications were forbidden for Chernyshevsky forever. Following the civil execution, Chernyshevsky was sent to the Nerchinsk penal servitude.
On June 5, 1864, Nikolai Gavrilovich entered the Tobolsk prison castle. Chernyshevsky had his hair cut short, without a mustache and without a beard, in a frock coat and trousers tucked into boots. Then he was sent to Yakutsk.
In 1866 Chernyshevsky was transferred to the Alexander Factory of the Nerchinsk district, from 1871 to 1883 he lived in Vilyuysk. Only in August 1883 Chernyshevsky was allowed to return from Siberia to Astrakhan, under the supervision of the police. In June 1889, he returned to Saratov, but shortly after arriving home, on October 29, 1889, Chernyshevsky died.