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Street Provision is one of the few streets of Saratov, preserving history not only in its name, but also the architecture.

Saratov at the time was one of the main trading cities of the Volga region. From all parts of the city were brought supplies and food for further transport of food along the Volga. To do this close to a shipping port (Commissariat a hill) built warehouses, which over time began to acquire small houses, outbuildings, and later manors and mansions.

Provision in our time is the sleeping area in the bustling centre of Saratov with open access to the local beach-the concrete (this hour in this place built a new embankment). As before, the street consists of three blocks, each of which has its historical value.

The first attraction, if you walk from the Volga river embankment, this is the house of the commune. In 1928 the government decided to build three houses with unusual bunk layout of apartments in three cities, including Saratov was. The idea of M. Gunzburg implemented two Saratov architect: Popov and Lisogor. The house was built in the style of constructivism.

The block above is the architect Yu.Turlikov, a native of Saratov. The author's house in art Nouveau style with a bas-relief depicting a human face could be called classically austere, if not a round window with cast-iron balcony (unfortunately lost). Opposite the house Turlikov standing corner building with a semicircular facade, built in the late thirties. Architects: Dubova and Karpov.

In the middle of the street is red-yellow mansion, designed in art Nouveau style, with a beautiful Greek mouldings. Unfortunately, the history of the us have left the architect's name.

The next building has a sad story. It was built in 1904 Seraphim widow's house, which is decorated with the remaining after the reconstruction of the crosses on the facades of the building and window arches. In 1910 the house was consecrated a Church in honor of Titus the Wonderworker. The architect of the building G. G. Plotnikov. After the revolution the house was reconstructed, by constructing two more floors, and only a few in the facade is a reminder of its religious past.

The last and the most beautiful sight in the streets of the Provision is the estate of K. A. Fee, son of the founder of the Saratov tobacco factory, and now the clinic of skin diseases. The building was built in 1912-1913 in the classic German style.

In November 1972, the street was renamed in honour of J. Galan, and in the early nineties has returned the historic name – Provision.

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