Quarter of the city. In the Fortress Quarter there is also a special administrative street of the city - the Line of Public Places, passing from Sadovaya to Moskovskaya, bypassing the Spassky Cathedral. It has never had and still does not have residential buildings. the eastern earthen rampart of the old Penza fortress The ancient defensive rampart runs along the western side of Kirov Street (this section of Kirov Street was formerly called Teatralnaya Street).

The cathedral was destroyed by the Communists in 1934, and rebuilt between