Nguyen Duy Trinh Street - The street of revolutionary spirit

(Baonghean) - The hundred-year-old street is now being constantly built by the local government and the old and new residents living here, creating a new, vibrant street that still retains the soul of an inner-city Vinh street, associated with the history of revolutionary struggle. That is Nguyen Duy Trinh Street...

Nguyen Duy Trinh Street.

Nguyen Duy Trinh Street is about one and a half kilometers long, located entirely in Hung Dung Ward (Vinh City). When Vinh was still Yen Truong Commune during the Trinh - Nguyen War, this street already existed, both as a small path to the Lam River boat dock (Ben Thuy) and as a road for farmers to go to work in the fields. During the French colonial period, the population gradually increased, but the street was still a deserted path among dense gardens. The street was a traffic route with the footprints of many revolutionary predecessors who came here to build patriotic bases, mobilize farmers in Yen Dung area (today's Hung Dung), and create the atmosphere of the Red Village during the Nghe - Tinh Soviet movement (1930 - 1931). Gradually, the street was considered the gateway of the Upper Yen Dung area to the center of Vinh city.

If at the dawn of the revolution, the road was bustling with the footsteps of farmers who persistently and bravely carried out the worker-peasant revolution until the day of the August General Uprising to seize power (1945), then during the fight against the American destructive war, the road was bustling with air defense units coordinating with the Red Village militia to shoot down American planes, contributing to the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces for Dung Dung ward.

When Hung Dung was still a commune, the residents still kept the village customs, during harvest time the roads were covered with straw. The gardens of the houses had bamboo clumps, banana bushes, and the houses were still small. More than a decade ago, the commune became a ward, and many residents bought land to live on both sides of the road, many high-rise buildings were built in the hamlets, and the cross-streets were numbered, but many times the entire long alley only led to the door of one house. Until now, the entire Nguyen Duy Trinh street only has one high-rise building, the newly built 9-storey Sao Dem Hotel.

Although residential buildings and a few offices are being continuously built on both sides of the road, Nguyen Duy Trinh Street has not yet created a real street rhythm, except for about 600 meters of the first section of the road starting from the intersection with Nguyen Phong Sac Street down to the intersection with Nguyen Gia Thieu Street. This section has been expanded and upgraded in recent years, and the asphalt has been repaved smoothly, but there is still basically no sidewalk. However, services have opened up as bustlingly as any major street in the city. There are no large-scale services and no specialized products, but there are service counters from high-end electronics and refrigeration to elegant embroidery stalls, interspersed with fashion shops, beauty care shops and cafes with youthful and gentle decorations; the buying and selling rhythm is not yet bustling but has created a street atmosphere. In this area, the sidewalk trees have not yet had time to cover the old trees, but after the road was widened, many residents have trimmed the trellises in a stylish way, partly creating a new charm for the street.

Until now, Nguyen Duy Trinh Street is still an important route of Hung Dung Ward to the city center, and is also a route that attracts visitors because right next to the road is the historical - cultural relic of Trung communal house, which has been restored to illustrate the heroic revolutionary movement of the people of Lang Do. History books record: Under the direct guidance of the Central Region Party Committee and Vinh Provincial Party Committee, in September 1930, Yen Dung Thuong commune organized a large rally at Trung communal house, demanding that the village chief and local leaders surrender their seals, books, and documents. In the face of the strong fighting spirit of the people, the feudal government here collapsed, and the Soviet government was born under the name "Hotbed Roof" consisting of representatives of the Farmers' Association in 8 villages. Trung communal house became the headquarters of "Hotbed Roof". Trung communal house has now become a place to educate the tradition for the young generation of the heroic Red City.

Dinh Trung is located on Nguyen Duy Trinh Street.

At the end of the road, from the Lang Do Martyrs Cemetery to the end point "catching" Nguyen Viet Xuan Street, it is bustling early because it is the old entrance to Vinh Technical Education University (the main gate of the school is now on Nguyen Viet Xuan Street). Residents in this area compete to build boarding houses for students and open kiosks to sell all kinds of things. If we talk about the cuisine of Nguyen Duy Trinh Street, it is also in this area, whether it is just simple snacks, cakes, porridge, sweet soup, or more luxurious ones such as beer stalls, grilled pork rolls, or dog meat stalls. Most of the houses and villas are hidden in the alleys, allowing rows of kiosks to be continuously built and stick to the road, possibly because the road is slow to be expanded and upgraded according to the plan. When the gate of Vinh University of Technology and Education had not yet moved to a new location, Nguyen Duy Trinh Street was also the entrance to the revolutionary relic "Nia Pagoda's Sanh tree" which was ranked by the State and preserved in the school grounds as a traditional place for students... Following Nguyen Duy Trinh Street to visit the Trung communal house relic cluster, visitors were led to houses with many old vestiges, which were places where the Central Party Committee once chose to print revolutionary documents and shelter important figures of the Party, such as Mr. Nguyen Sy Huyen's house, which still retains the four-pillar lim house, and Mr. Nguyen Huu Dien's house, which still has a perennial chay tree where a jar of documents was buried.

Still hesitant in the rhythm of the streets, Nguyen Duy Trinh Street is a street that preserves many traces of revolutionary struggles. Stepping on each street and alley on this street, we are reminded of the heroic past of a vibrant period in the history of the nation in general and of Nghe An in particular. Therefore, the street is a great attraction, not only to increase the prosperity day by day, but also to multiply the awareness of cherishing and preserving the soul of this street in the heart of the space of the old heroic Red Village.

Sam Temple