Chumbarov-Luchinsky Avenue, popularly nicknamed as Chumbarovka, is the main pedestrian street of Arkhangelsk. Actually, it is but a kilometer-long stretch that is pedestrian, from Ioann Kronstadtsky (St. John of Kronstadt) to Karl Liebknecht Street. The latter has received its modern name - in honor of the revolutionary - in 1921, and previously it was called Pskovskaya. The pedestrian part of Chumbarovka has been conceived as an architectural reserve, or an open-air museum, created artificially: historic wooden houses from all parts of the city were brought to the avenue.

The same principle was used in constructing the Malye Korely Museum of Wooden Architecture, to mention but one, where buildings were brought from different areas of the Arkhangelsk region. Some buildings in Chumbarovka have been completed and recreated, some of them are ordinary dwelling houses. Among the buildings you can see the wooden house of the city estate of F. G. Antonov, dating back to 1884-1890, the hospital of P. A. Dmitrievsky, built in 1911, and many others. The main attraction here is Marfa's House, built in 1910. Despite the fact that the mansion is made mainly of wood, the architects have managed to combine two styles in it: Baroque and Neo-Renaissance. At present, Marfa's House accomodates a cultural and exhibition center.

Walking along the avenue, you can also see monuments to outstanding North-Russian writers with their personages standing side by side with the authors. At the crossing of Chumbarovka and Pomorskaya Street, the storyteller Stepan Pisakhov holds out his hand for a handshake, and a few meters apart, riding on a huge burbot, there is a personage of his fairy tales, Senya Malina. Still further is the sculpture of the writer Boris Shergin, followed by Kozma Prutkov, the literary mask of the brothers Zhemchuzhnikovs and Alexei Tolstoy. At the end of the street there is a monument to Russian Wives, Family Hearth Lady Guardians. The author of all the sculptures is Sergey Syukhin. There are museums and cafes in the houses; at the beginning of the street is the central market of Arkhangelsk, closer to the middle is the Central Department Store, and nearby is the Book Centre.