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Persons / Vasilyev Alexander Viktorovich architect , artist
Vasilyev A.V. (1913-1976), architect.

VASILYEV Alexander Viktorovich (1913-1976, Leningrad), architect, painter, graphic artist. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1938). In the years of the war, he worked as a poster artist for propaganda

Admiral Kuznetsov Naval Academy

ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV NAVAL ACADEMY (NA) (73/1 Vyborgskaya Embankment). Established in April, 1919, on the basis of Nikolaevsky Marine Academy for preparing command and command-engineering personnel for the Soviet Navy

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)

Grilles (entry)

GRILLES. St. Petersburg boasts a number of unique metal grilles, created in the course of three centuries. Wrought grilles of bars with (sometimes gilded) decorative figures made from flat iron bars (the grille of the Ekaterininsky (Catherine)

Lenina Square

LENINA SQUARE, at the intersection of Arsenalnaya Embankment and Botkinskaya Street. Named in 1924 in memory of V.I. Lenin's visit to Petrograd in April 1917; known as Lenina Alley until 1946

Levinson E.A. (1894-1968), architect

LEVINSON Evgeny Adolfovich (1894-1968, Leningrad), architect and artist, Associate of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR (from 1941), Doctor of Architecture (1946)

Mass Residential Construction (entry)

MASS RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION. Started from the middle of the 1920s with the erection of apartment blocks. The first ones were erected in 1925-27, on Traktornaya Street (in 1927, 140,000 sq. metres of apartment houses were introduced)

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

Piskarevskoe Memorial Cemetrey

PISKAREVSKOE MEMORIAL CEMETREY (72 Nepokorennykh Avenue), the main site of mass burials of Leningrad residents who starved to death or perished during the siege of 1941-44

Piskarevsky Avenue

PISKAREVSKY AVENUE between Sverdlovskaya Embankment and the upper Okhta River near Novaya Village. It crosses Polyustrovo, Piskarevka (hence the name), and Ruchi

Smolninskaya Hotel

SMOLNINSKAYA (22 Tverskaya Street). A hotel constructed in 1971-72 as a part of the Political Enlightenment House of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (architects D.S. Goldgor, G.A. Vasilyev and others)

Stachek Square

STACHEK SQUARE, known as Narvskaya Square until 1923, at the intersection of Stachek Avenue, Narvsky Avenue and Staro-Petergofsky Avenue. The square assumed the present-day name in commemoration of the strike movement (the name of the square

Sverdlovskaya Embankment

SVERDLOVSKAYA EMBANKMENT (in 1887-1925 - Polyustrovskaya Embankment, after the area of Polyustrovo), on the right bank of the Neva River, between Arsenalnaya Street and Krasnogvardeiskaya Square. It was named after Y.M. Sverdlov

Ushakovskaya Embankment

USHAKOVSKAYA EMBANKMENT, on the right bank of the Bolshaya Nevka River, from Chernaya Rechka River Embankment to Akademika Krylova Street. The embankment is an extension of Vyborgskaya Embankment