Dzerzhinsky Street

In 1927 Bolshaya Soldatskaya Street was named after the revolutionary Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky.
He was born on September 11, 1877 in a Polish noble family. He spent his childhood in the family estate near Vilna (now Vilnius).

In 1884, Dzerzhinsky first got acquainted with the ideas of Marxism by joining the social-democratic circle of the Vilna gymnasium. A year later, he left his studies and devoted himself entirely to revolutionary work.

For 20 years, Dzerzhinsky’s life has been full of arrests, prisons, exile, escapes. He was sentenced to death several times. In 1906, he illegally visited Stockholm, where the congress of the RSDLP was held; there he met V.I. Lenin for the first time.
In 1917, during the February Revolution, together with other political prisoners, he was released from the Moscow Butyrskaya prison.

In August 1917, he became a member of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b), joined the Central Committee for the preparation of an armed uprising. He took an active part in the October revolution.

On December 17, 1917, he was appointed chairman of the Cheka. An inflexible and tough fighter against any dissent, Dzerzhinsky became one of the leaders of the Red terror. It was he who, together with Lenin, initiated the persecution and expulsion abroad of representatives of the Russian intelligentsia, the seizure of church valuables, and the execution of clergy.

In the 1920s, Dzerzhinsky headed the People’s Commissariat of Railways, was chairman of the Commission on Combating Homelessness, in 1924 he became chairman of the Supreme Economic Council.

He died suddenly on July 20, 1926 in Moscow.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Vasily Fedorovich Busygin, a Tobolsk philistine, lived at 69 Bolshaya Soldatskaya Street. The modern building is typical for the development of a provincial town in the middle of the twentieth century. The house is decorated with beautiful platbands with sawn carvings, in which the floral ornament is visible. The house is sheathed in wood and painted in two colors. The roof of the house is rebuilt, covered with slate. The attic room is arranged in the form of a separate room, for natural lighting of which a window is made on the east side, decorated with a trim with a sawn carving.

At the beginning of the XX century, the house at 21 Soldatskaya Street was owned by the heirs of the Tobolsk philistine Meer Khaimovich Motilev. In 1911, 13 residents were registered in the house (8 m., 5 w.). The modern building was built in the middle of the twentieth century. The house is decorated with simple platbands with an overlay ornament in the form of diamonds. The house is sheathed and painted. The current owners have erected a new building on the site.

Residential house of two families. At the beginning of the twentieth century, one half of the house belonged to the family of the priest Semyon Fedorovich Aksarin, the other was occupied by the family of the Tobolsk philistine Pashkovsky. The house is decorated with overhead carvings, flowers, circles and rhombuses are present in the ornament. In the attic there is a dormer window, which was previously taken away by a platband. Of particular interest are the windows of the house facing Volodarsky Street — each window frame is divided into three equal parts.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the house at 30 Soldatskaya Street belonged to Tobolsk philistine Stepan Maksimovich Volovich. In 1911, 10 residents were registered in the house (4 m., 6 w.). The modern building was built in the middle of the twentieth century. The house is decorated with an overhead sawn carving. The roof of the house is rebuilt and covered with slate. The fence of the house has not been preserved.