Boulevard Street

1906 Fetisov's planting of the first silver poplars and oaks along the ditches near his house in 1879 gave rise to the city's Boulevard Alley. On Forest Day, April 4, 1902, the plantings were extended to Verkhnyaya Street, although the annual rings on the stumps of the trees cut down here indicate that they were planted no later than 1893. The Tserkovny ditch, used for watering trees, still irrigates the boulevard’s plantings today.