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Old photos of Yekaterinburg: the view to cinema theatre Coliseum
These photos were taken by Veniamin Metenkov in the beginning of Xxth century and Valery Fomin in 2013.
Note: The Metenkov's photo was scanned from card, prepared by publisher Lobanov S.N.
History
The view to the Coliseum cinema theater from the intersection of Lenina Avenue and Karla Liebknechta Street. Before the revolution, these streets are called Glavniy Prospect and Voznesensky Prospekt respectively. The building, which is visible in the center of these images, it was built in 1845 by architect К. G. Turskiy .
The First Municipal Theatre of Yekaterinburg was in this building from 1847 to 1912. The theater was renamed the Coliseum cinema in 1914 . During the Soviet period of our history the cinema was called Oktiabr (October) . It was one of the few cinema theaters in the country, which show movies in 3D format. In 2002, the theater returned to its historical name.
More info
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You can use the following links to see more modern photographs of the Coliseum cinema in Photo album of Neogeoraph theatre using address: Lenina, 43 or use Photo album link in the menu in right upper part of this page for search address
To view photos of the Coliseum theater with city map, use the link on the Map of Neogeograph |
