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Adress index / Saint Petersburg, city / Grazhdansky Ave
История переименований:
Grazhdansky Ave (as of November 12, 1962)
road to Grazhdanka colony (the late 19th cent.-November 12, 1962)
Grazhdanskaya Road (1914 - 1955)

Agrophysics Institute

AGROPHYSICS INSTITUTE is a scientific institution run by the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (14 Grazhdansky Avenue), and was created on the initiative of Member of the Academy A.F. Ioffe in 1932

Casinos (entry)

CASINOS (from Italian casino - house), a kind of gambling-house. In the Russian Empire and USSR gambling-houses and casinos were officially banned. The first legal casinos appeared in St

Grazhdanka

GRAZHDANKA, an area to the north of St. Petersburg. Named after a German settlement (sometimes, referred to as Gorozhanka) that was formed in the second half of the 18th century on Staraya Murinskaya Road (the present-day site of Favorskogo Street)

Grazhdansky Avenue

GRAZHDANSKY AVENUE, running from Nepokorennykh Avenue to Suzdalsky Avenue. The avenue was named after the locality Grazhdanka. Originally called Road to Gorozhanka Village (name known since 1817)

Ioffe A.F., (1880-1960), physicist

IOFFE Abram Fedorovich (1880-I960, Leningrad), physicist, organiser of science, Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1916), the Russian Academy of Sciences (1920)

Kalininsky District

KALININSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 13 Arsenalnaya Embankment.) The district was named in honour of Mikhail Kalinin in 1946

Murinsky Stream

MURINSKY STREAM, a water course in the north of St. Petersburg and a tributary to the Okhta River. The name comes from the village of Murino. The stream heads from Sosnovka Park

Nepokorennykh Avenue

NEPOKORENNYKH AVENUE translated as the Avenue of the Unconquered, a part of the central ring road running between Muzhestva Square and Piskarevsky Avenue and crossing Kushelevka and Piskarevka

Roerich Art School

ROERICH ART SCHOOL (88/2 Grazhdansky Avenue) is a special secondary school: it is the oldest art school in Russia. It shares its history with the Auditors Drawing School that was opened by the Ministry of Finances in the Custom House (2 Birzhevaya

Ruchyi

RUCHYI, an area to the north-east of St. Petersburg, to the north of Piskarevka. It was named after a village located on the banks of Murinsky Stream (the site where it intersects present-day Grazhdansky Avenue) from the late 18th century to the

Tram Depots

TRAM DEPOTS, enterprises providing special facilities and equipment for parking, maintenance and repair of tramway cars. The first Tram Depot (Petersburg Tram Depot

Trolleybus depots

TROLLEYBUS DEPOTS, enterprises providing special facilities and equipment for parking, maintenance and repair services of trolleybuses. The first trolleybuses were accommodated in the depot of Smirnov Tram Depot (3 Degtyarny Lane) since 1936