The journey of the "Zero Kilometer" in Ufa

No matter how long the road is, it has a beginningand the end. In many cities around the world and in Russia are established reference points, from which the counting of outgoing roads begins. This determines the distance between points. Somewhere it's just a workplace, and somewhere a monument and a city landmark. The designation of the zero kilometer in Ufa became a holiday worthy of attention.

According to the old tradition, the Main Post Office

At noon on September 14, 2007 on Lenin Street in Ufa was solemnly laid on a cobblestone beautifully decorated in traditional Bashkir patterns, bronze disc with the number "0" in the center.

Now every Ufa resident and guest of the city knows that the length of the roads of Bashkortostan is considered according to the old Russian tradition from the Main Post Office of Ufa.

On the facade was posted a memorial tablet on which it is indicated how far from the "Zero kilometer "in Ufa there are four large cities of Russia: in the north - Murmansk, in the south - in Sochi, in the west - in Kaliningrad and in the east - in Vladivostok. The fifth distance to the capital is Moscow.

The initiative to install the sign came from the Bashkirservice of the Russian Post. It is known that the mail in the old days was delivered by "Yamskaya chase", and zero verst was involved in calculating the run of coachmen. Who, if not Russia's Post, supports the old tradition?

New city traditions

Installation of the sign "Zero kilometer" in Ufa at: Lenin Street, Glavpochtamt, gave birth immediately to a host of signs that over the years have become a new tradition.

On the occasion of the opening of a commemorative sign by postal workersit was expressed the wish that from this day on from this place of the city their newly married couple would make their first steps in family life, so that the athletes would take their victorious starts from here. And that's exactly what happens today.

Moreover, from here and businessmen prefer to start new projects - it is believed that they will be successful. Yes, many who still start their way from the "Zero", hoping for a happy conclusion.

All the city's tourist routes are designed withVisit this place, so beloved by the townspeople. It's no wonder that the bronze disc is polished to the sheen over the years with millions of feet wishing to trample on it in front of the road.

The history of "zero kilometers" in Ufa

When the townspeople got used to a new place in the center,which brought luck to everyone, and fell in love with him, an article appeared in the newspaper "Evening Ufa", which told them that this is not the first or even the second "Zero" in the history of the city.

Previous existed since 1925, and the beginning"Zero verst" was a monument to Lenin by I. Mendelevich, delivered to the leader a year after his death. And where else should all the roads begin? By the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the Bashkir ASSR, it was decided: "The monument to Lenin is the starting point of versts along the routes of Bashkiria from Ufa."

The authors of the article suggest that in the royalRussia certainly was the starting point for Bashkirian versts, because the distances on old maps and in some provincial publications are indicated with great accuracy. Only where could it be? Unfortunately, there are no documents about this. But there are suggestions.

According to Yamsky tradition, it could be the Ufa post office on Pushkin Street. But, perhaps, the countdown was conducted from the Ufa Kremlin or the Governor's House. So how many "zero kilometers" in Ufa?

As in Moscow ...

Moscow "zero kilometer" also does not give restMuscovites who want to get to the bottom. He also repeatedly changed his location, causing at first controversy and bewilderment. But then people got used to the new sign, and it became a landmark of the city. These last signs are even alike. It is enough to look at the "Zero kilometer" of Ufa, photo which is decorated with booklets and postcards with views of the central streets, and a sign of Moscow to notice the similarity. And they are installed in disputable places.

The Moscow count of miles was once conducted fromthe bell tower of Ivan the Great, because Yamsky orders were located in the Kremlin. And then from the Postal Court on Sretenka, and later from the German Sloboda. Only at the beginning of the 20th century did Glavpochtamt move to Myasnitskaya Street.

After the revolution, a new countdown of Russian roads began. From the Central Telegraph on Tverskaya, from the Mausoleum of Lenin and Stalin.

During the perestroika years, they finally became entangled. The Moscow Mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, put the place where the sign was put to the vote, they were offered as many as 14. Finally, the disk was mounted in the cobbles in the passage of the Resurrection Gates, where it is still today. Till.

So the inhabitants of Bashkiria should not be embarrassed by the journey of their "Zero kilometer" in Ufa. He is not such a restless man.

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