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Complex of Buildings G78K, The Old City,

1. Building - G78K1, Turgaus a. 4, built in the 18^th – 19^th c.
2. House - G78K2, Turgaus a.6, built in the 18^th – 19^th c.
3. Building - G78K3, Turgaus a. 7, built in the 18^th – 19^th c.
4. House - G78K4, 9 Turgaus Sq., built in the 18^th – 19^th c.
5. House - G78K5, 11 Turgaus Sq., built in the 18^th – 19^th c.
6. House - G78K6, 13 Turgaus Sq., built in the 18^th – 19^th c.
7. House - G78K7, 15 Turgaus Sq., built in the 18^th – 19^th c.
8. House - G78K8, 17 Turgaus Sq., built in the 18^th – 19^th c.
9. House - G78K9, 21 Turgaus Sq., built in the 19^th c., restored in 1975
10. Building - G78K10, 23 Turgaus Sq., built in the 19^th c., reconstructed in 1960, 1995

Architectural value

At the beginning of the 18^th c the first farmsteads appeared next to the marketplace. In 1722 this part of the city became a part of the Old City. In 1798-1799 the square was paved with stones. Next to the square there were inns, shops, craftsmen’s workshops and bakeries. At the beginning, there were wider intervals between the buildings along the edges of the square that served as roads leading to the plots of lands. Later the buildings became higher, and intervals between them narrower. The owners of the houses changed many times. In the second half of the 19^th c, with a shortage of flats, many houses were made higher; garrets were equipped with rooms for living. In the Soviet times, the houses underwent major repairs, their architecture was simplified. The boundaries between plots of lands disappeared, in empty spaces standard houses were built.

 

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