Komarovsky market in Minsk: how to get there, the mode of operation

For Minskers, Komarovka is not only a place for shopping. They rest here, make dates. This brings children and guests of the capital to admire the sculptural compositions and fountain. In front of the market there is a large playground where New Year, City Day and other holidays are celebrated.

Komarovsky market is loved for its cleanliness, beauty, comfort and low prices. A variety of products offered by the food industry of the republic: dairies, bakeries, meat processing plants, confectionery factories, greenhouse farms. In branded shops, goods are sold at producer prices.

Year-round seasonal rows work, where they buy sour cream, cottage cheese, berries, fruits, vegetables, nuts, etc. Farmers come here with homemade cottage cheese, butter, sour cream, cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries and other products from personal farms.

Once in the Komarovsky market, you can not go home without buying. But it was not always so.

History

In the century before last, the village of Komarovka was located on this land. It belonged to the princes of the Radziwills. After the war in 1812, the village became the property of the Minsk landowner Stanislav Vankovich, and later became part of the city.

Until 1925 Komarovka was a swampy terrain. In the area where the urban poor lived, insanitary conditions dominated, infectious diseases spread. Where there is a brisk trade today, there was a clean field on which S. Utochkin made indicative flights.

After draining the marshes, the terrain was built up with new houses and various buildings. There was an institute of physical culture, the square of the Belarusian poet Yakub Kolas, a giant furniture store. Trolleybuses and trams ran along the streets. Near the House of Furniture is a collective-farm market, named after the former village of Komarovsky.

Architecture of the structure

Although the Komarovsky market in Minsk was designed on the basis of the shopping center of Chelyabinsk, the architectural features of Komarovka are unique. The roof was collected from light instrument panels, fastened with thirty-seven ropes.

Each rope consists of one hundred twenty-four super-strong steel wires. Breaking strength is about three hundred tons. Ropes are tightened around the perimeter of the edge of the roof, which makes the structure easy. The highest point of the dome is raised to the height of a ten-story house - 26 meters from the ground.

The exterior facades are finished with a colored rubber coating, golden glass and polished granite.

Komarovsky market in Minsk was designed by architects V. Aladov, A. Zheldakov, V. Krivosheev, M. Tkachuk.

Sculptures

Near the market there is a multi-stage fountain and a city sculpture. Authors compositions - V. Zhbanov, A. Tukhto, O. Kupriyanov, E. Kolchev.

The idea to decorate Komarovka with sculptures appeared at the beginning of the zero ones. The attention of the directorate of the trading company was offered by different objects, but the winner was the famous Belarusian sculptor Vladimir Zhbanov. He presented sculptures "Lady with a Dog" and "Photographer". Objects are placed as if a bronze lady is posing in front of an old camera.

No less interesting is the sculpture "Horse", performed by V. Zhbanov in collaboration with Alexander Tukhto. It seems that the animal came to the watering place. On the back of the horse there is a small bronze sparrow, which unscrupulous citizens unscrew from time to time, and the city authorities have to restore the composition. On the steps of the fountain bronze geese found their place. This is the joint work of Vladimir Zhbanov and Yevgeny Kolchev. Important, proud birds, like a horse, seek to quench their thirst.

Sculptor Oleg Kupriyanov immortalized a woman with seeds in the image of the grandmother Komarikha. A burly elderly woman not only offers goods to customers, but also feeds birds. Over the grandmother of bronze flaunts a sign: "Komarovsky market. Opening hours from 9.00 to 19.00. The day off is Monday. "

Sculptural compositions of Komarovka became another attraction of the city. Here children play and tourists are photographed.

Neighborhood

Komarovsky market (address: Vera Khoruzhey street, 8) is located in the Soviet district of the capital. A two-storey house of furniture is built nearby, where people come from all over the city. Belarusian and foreign manufacturers offer beds, chairs, kitchen sets, stools and other goods.

The kingdom of sofas and cupboards is an independent trading object, but due to close neighborhood in the minds of Minsk citizens the association "Komarovsky market - furniture" is firmly rooted.

A little further is the square of Yakub Kolas, in the center of which there are monuments to the classics of Belarusian literature and to the heroes of his works. Behind the monument architects have provided for the twin towers. In one building there is the Minsk Polygraphic Combine, in the other - a plant for the production of computer technology.

In front of the monument and towers is the building of the Belarusian State Philharmonic. Symphony orchestras, choral, dance groups and soloists perform in the concert hall. Here, academic concerts are given to students and graduates of art schools, specialized gymnasiums and lyceums, students of the Belarusian Academy of Music. The building of the Institute of Physical Education was given to the National Olympic Committee.

On the Komarovsky market, mainly food products are sold .

Those who want to buy something from clothes, shoes, cosmetics or accessories, it is recommended to visit nearby shopping centers "Impulse", "Zerkalo", "Manezh" and others. Cars are left on a multi-level parking lot.

On the other hand Komarovka housed a residential block. Multi-storey houses are built according to original designs. The most famous are "corn" - sixteen-story frame structures of non-trivial construction. Other buildings are faced with glazed tiles, decorated with mosaic, decorated with gratings on the roofs.

Awards

In 1997, the Komarovsky market was given the status of a municipal trading unitary enterprise. Since then, Komarovka has changed. There were beautiful pavilions, the above-mentioned sculptures, a playground, a fountain, retail outlets from enterprises.

For achievements in the field of trade and the provision of jobs, the labor collective was awarded the "Bronze Mercury" - the award of the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Belarus. The enterprise was also brought to the Republican Board of Honor.

How to get to the market

The Komarovsky market is located next to the metro station "Yakuba Kolasa Square". This mode of transport is the most convenient and fastest. Trams # 1, 5, 6, 8, 11 also run through the famous square.

Buses No. 19, 25, 44, 59, 91, 136, trolleybuses No. 22, 29, 40 stop from the streets of V. Khoruzhei and Kulman, not far from the market.

Welcome to shopping!