Sovetskie Streets, First - Tenth

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SOVETSKIE STREETS, First - Tenth (were called Rozhdestvenskie Streets from 1798 to 1923, after the Nativity of Our Lord Church, with the present-day name given on occasion of the 6th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917). All the streets are situated within the locality of Peski and run transversely to Suvorovsky Avenue, the major artery of the district. First Sovetskaya Street, Second Sovetskaya Street, Fourth Sovetskaya Street and Fifth Sovetskaya Street start from Ligovsky Avenue; of them First Sovetskaya Street extends as far as Suvorovsky Avenue, Second Sovetskaya Street reaches Bakunina Avenue, whereas Fourth Sovetskaya Street and Fifth Sovetskaya Street run as far as Mytninskaya Street. Third Sovetskaya Street, Sixth Sovetskaya Street and Seventh Sovetskaya Street continue from Grechesky Avenue to Mytninskaya Street; Eighth Sovetskaya Street runs from Grechesky Avenue to Novgorodskaya Street; Ninth Sovetskaya Street covers the area between Moiseenko Street and Mytninskaya Street; finally, Tenth Sovetskaya Street goes from Moiseenko Street to Novgorodskaya Street. In the 18th century this area incorporated the settlement of the St. Petersburg Building Chancellery; the laying of the streets started in 1755. Originally, wooden houses were built alongside the streets. In the late 19th century - early 20th century all the neighbourhood was built up with multi-storied apartment houses in the Art Nouveau style, neo-classical and neo-Russian styles. First Sovetskaya Street was turned into a pedestrian precinct in 2000, where shopping stalls are situated. house No. 4 on Second Sovetskaya Street accommodated the first school for fully-trained nurses in Russia, opened in 1872; now it's the Scientific Research Institute for Occupational Hygiene. House No. 16 is the building of the Holy Trinity Community of Mercy with a hospital attached (1874-91, architects E.S. Vorotilov, A.F. Krasovsky; the Scientific Research Institute of Haematology and Transfusiology at present). 33 Fifth Sovetskaya Street is the address for St. Petersburg Archival Depository of Scientific and Technical Documents (located in the building of the former Old Athos metochion; 1891-93, architect N.N. Nikonov). Writer Y.N. Tynyanov used to live in house No. 8 at Fifth Sovetskaya Street. House No. 3 at Sixth Sovetskaya Street accommodated the school of the Petrovskoe Society for Propagation of Commercial Education, founded in 1902. In 1912-13, house No. 39 at Ninth Sovetskaya Street served as a place where the sittings of the socialist-democratic faction of the Fourth State Duma were held. House No. 17 at Tenth Sovetskaya Street, the flat of S.Y. Alliluev (I.V. Stalin's father-in-law) in particular, is notable as a place where V.I. Lenin hid during the July Days in 1917; in 1938 the flat was turned into the memorial museum, now called the Alliluevs' Memorial Flat-Museum.

A. A. Alexeev. Alliluev Sergey Yakovlevich
Krasovsky Alexander Fedorovich
Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
Nikonov Nikolay Nikitich
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
the Alliluevs
Tynyanov Yury Nikolaevich
Vorotilov Evgraf Sergeevich
1st Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
2nd Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
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5th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
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6th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
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9th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 39
10th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
10th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Bakunina Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Grechesky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Ligovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Moiseenko St./Saint Petersburg, city
Mytninskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Novgorodskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Пески
Building Office
Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Science
Scientific and Technical Archives of St. Petersburg
State Duma