Russell Street is a north-south street in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid laid out in 1837. At its southern end it itersects with Flinders Street and Federation Square, while at its northern end it becomes Lygon Street. The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area). ... The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets of the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Flinders Street is an important street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Inside the Atrium Federation Square (or Fed Square) is the new public heart of the city of Melbourne, Australia. ... Lygon Street, of the suburb of Carlton, Melbourne, Australia, is the Italian food precinct of the city. ...

There are three things for which Russell Street is most notable. The cinema complex, the drug dealing and the Russell Street Bombing of the then Victoria police Russell Street Police Headquarters, now converted to a residential complex. The Russell Street Bombing is the name given to a tragedy that occurred at 1pm on March 27, 1986 when a stolen 1979 Holden Commodore left parked outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, exploded. ... The Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. ... Russell Street Police Headquarters was for many years the headquarters of the Victoria Police before they were moved to St Kilda Road in about 1990. ...

The southern side of Russell Street between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street is notorious for both video games parlors and drug dealing, specifically heroin. The associated street crime led to a Victoria police crackdown on the activity. Bourke Street Mall Bourke Street is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events... Heroin or diamorphine (INN) (colloquially referred to as brown sugar, junk, babania, horse, golden brown, smack, black tar, H, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, diesel, etc. ... The Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. ...