The area around the intersection of Bazarnaya, Kolodezna, and Pokrovskaya Streets was before the revolution a center of various stores, benches, and workshops, most of whose owners were of Jewish nationality.The main occupations of the Jews of Tiraspol were trade and crafts. Jews were watchmakers, tailors, shoemakers, hat makers, painters, blacksmiths, apothecaries, bankers, photographers.