The journey of the "Zero Kilometer" in Ufa

No matter how long the road is, it has a beginning and an end. In many cities around the world and in Russia, reference points have been established, 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. стало праздником, достойным внимания. The designation of the zero kilometer in Ufa became a holiday worthy of attention.

According to the old tradition, the Main Post Office

бронзовый диск с цифрой «0» в центре. At noon on September 14, 2007, on Lenin Street in Ufa, a beautifully decorated in traditional Bashkir patterns, a bronze disk with the number "0" in the center, was laid on a cobblestone .

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 building of Glavpochtamt Ufa.

километра» в Уфе расположены четыре крупных города России: на севере - Мурманск, на юге - Сочи, западе - Калининград и на востоке - Владивосток. A memorial tablet was posted on the facade, indicating 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 of installing the sign came from the Bashkir Service 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

: улица Ленина, Главпочтамт, породила сразу же множество примет, которые за эти годы стали новыми традициями. The installation of the sign "Zero kilometer" in Ufa at the address : Lenin street, Glavpochtamt, gave birth immediately to a host of signs that over the years have become new traditions.

At the celebration of the opening of the memorable sign by the postal workers, it was expressed the wish that from this day on from this place the cities would make their first steps in married life to the newlyweds, 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 ending.

All the tourist routes of the city are designed with a visit to 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 brings luck to every comer, and fell in love with him, an article appeared in the newspaper Vechernyaya 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 of the "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 a decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the Bashkir ASSR, it was decided: "The monument to Lenin is the point of reference of versts along the routes of Bashkiria from Ufa."

The authors of the article assume that in Tsarist Russia the point of reference of the Bashkirian versts was undoubtedly, since the distances on old maps and in some provincial editions 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's "zero kilometer" also does not give rest to Muscovites who want to get to the bottom of the story. 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. которого украшает буклеты и открытки с видами центральных улиц, и знак Москвы, чтобы заметить сходство. It is enough to look at the "Zero kilometer" of Ufa, whose photo adorns 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 from the bell tower of Ivan the Great, because the 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.

In the years of perestroika they were completely 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 Gate, where it is still today. Till.

. So the residents of Bashkiria should not be embarrassed by the journeys of their "Zero kilometer" in Ufa . He is not such a restless one.