Foundry Avenue, connects the eponymous bridge and the main road of the city. He is one of the oldest in the city and is named after the cast house, created by Peter I in 1711. In the first years of its existence it mainly zasilyalsya workers from the factory and all the buildings were constructed of wood, was beside the labor exchange for podnevnyh workers, and in connection with a high mortality Mariinsky hospital was built. In the early 19th century, part of the avenue was named Vladmirskim named erected there cathedral. During the Soviet era it was renamed Avenue Volodarsky, a historical name was restored in 1944.