Volodarsky Street

Volodarsky (Goldstein Moses Markovich) is a civil activist and revolutionary, was born on December 11, 1891 in the town of Ostropol in the Ostropol parish of Novograd-Volynsky district of Volyn province in the family of a Jewish craftsman. He entered the 5th grade of the gymnasium in Dubno, a year later he was expelled from there for unreliability and briefly arrested. He was a member of the organization of Ukrainian Social Democrats "Spilka".

During the Revolution of 1905−1907 Volodarsky compiled and printed illegal appeals, organized rallies. From 1908 to 1911 he worked as a revolutionary agitator in the Volyn and Podolsk provinces.
He was exiled in 1911 to Pinega, Arkhangelsk province, where he spent two years. The amnesty announced on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov, in February 1913, allowed him to be released, he emigrated to the United States. While working as a cutter at a tailor factory in Philadelphia, he joined the Socialist Party of America and the International Tailors' Union. During the First World War, together with Trotsky and Bukharin, he published the weekly newspaper Novy Mir in New York. Participant of the October Revolution, then Commissioner for Press, Propaganda and Agitation of Petrograd.

Going to the next rally in his car, V. Volodarsky noticed that the gasoline had run out. He abandoned the car, he went on foot. On the way to the Obukhov plant, an attempt happened — a socialist-revolutionary militant killed him with a pistol shot on June 20, 1918.

Built in the first half of the twentieth century, it serves as a good example of an ordinary manor house, preserving in its structure the characteristic features of a local dwelling. The chopped five-wall is placed on a low brick plinth. The main facade of the house faces the street. The cornice and window frames are decorated with sawn carvings. In the division of the facade, the motif of a triangular pediment with an attic window is used. The side links of the platbands are treated with chiseled balusters.

The wooden St. Andrew’s Apostolic Church was built in 1646 and was the parish church of the Cossacks who lived in the settlement. In total, as of 1710 there were 155 Cossack households. On the site of the wooden St. Andrew’s Church in 1744, the merchant Avraamiy Sumkin put a small stone "log house". But according to other sources, Cornelius Perevoloka is listed as the builder.

In the mid-1700s, the church chapel was consecrated several times — in the name of Abraham the Recluse and Andrew the First-Called. The construction of the refectory and the consecration of the third throne in the name of John the Warrior took place in 1759.

A funny incident occurred in the parish church in February 1740: the wife of one of the parishioners noticed a ghost, and therefore she became afraid, and she ran to the police. The brave guys began to catch a ghost, but instead of someone they caught a Cossack who went out into the yard for a small need with a white sheet on his head.

At the height of the cholera epidemic that occurred in Tobolsk in 1848, a parishioner of St. Andrew’s Church in a dream heard a voice that spoke of the need to bring an icon of the Pochaev Mother of God to the church. After telling the neighbors about the miracle dream and enlisting the support, the icon was brought to Tobolsk, after which the epidemic began to wane, and then stopped altogether. Residents of several districts of Tobolsk tearfully asked for the annual bringing of the icon, and in 1856 They petitioned His Grace Evlampy to bring the icon to Tobolsk on Peter’s Day for a whole week. The church authorities allowed the icon to be brought, but only for one year. Three years later, the Holy Synod again received a request to carry the icon. As a result, it became a good tradition and every year the icon of the Mother of God of Pochaevskaya was carried around the city and brought to temples.
In 1885, the St. Andrew’s Apostolic Parish School was opened at the church. After the revolution of 1917, the church community was liquidated. In the spring of 2001, the public organization club "Good Will" appealed to Archbishop Dimitri with an initiative to revive the church. The initiative was supported: a prayer room was equipped in the narthex under the bell tower. Since 2013, services have been held weekly in the church, a mixed choir has been created, recognized as the best parish choir in Tobolsk. Through the efforts of Priest John Kazantsev, with the help of benefactors, an iconostasis was built in the main part of the temple and the temple space was equipped.