Peski

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PESKI (sands), the historical name of the area in the centre of St. Petersburg, between the Neva River, Nevsky Prospect and Ligovsky Avenue, on both sides of Suvorovsky Avenue. The name is caused by the nature of the ground. In the second half of the 18th century, here a settlement of Construction Chancellery was founded; its building up followed a strict regular layout design. In 1781-88, the Nativity of Our Lord Church was erected in the centre of Peski (demolished in 1934), it gave its names to the ten Rozhdestvenskaya Streets (today First-Tenth Sovetskie Street) and Rozhdestvenskaya Part. In the late 19th - early 20th centuries, the territory was mainly built up with multi-storied apartment houses. With the construction of a plant for alcoholic drinks producer Liviz, thermoelectric power station № 2, Kirov Spinning-Mill, Karavay bread-baking plant and other enterprises, an industrial zone formed along Sinopskaya Embankment.

Е. А. Bondarchuk, P.Y. Yudin. Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
1st Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
2nd Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
3d Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
4th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
5th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
6th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
7th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
8th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
9th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
10th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Ligovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city
Sinopskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Пески
Building Office
Kirov Spinning and Filar Factory