Professora Popova Street

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PROFESSORA POPOVA STREET (in the 1810s - Pesochny Avenue, from the middle of the 19th century to 1940 - Pesochnaya Street), between Aptekarskaya Embankment and Pesochnaya Embankment, on Aptekarsky Island. The street was named after the inventor of the radio A. S. Popov. The construction of the street was started in the late 18th - early 19th centuries. Originally, it went from Aptekarsky Avenue to modern Vyazemsky Lane; in the 1860s, it was extended as far as Aptekarskaya Embankment and in 1911 - up to Barochnaya Street. The latest part up to Pesochnaya Embankment was built in the 1960s. The majority of buildings date back to the late 19th - 20th centuries: building 6 (1912, architect R.O. Ulman), building 7 (1913, architect G.Y. Gervits), building 26 (1911, architect I.B. Kaliberda), building 33 (1900, architect E.S. Biryukov), building 37b - the former school for blind children (1890s architect A.I. Tomishko; since 1906, the monument to the school's founder K.K. Grot was located on this place. In 1963, it was moved to Shaumyana Avenue), building 42 for the Government Automobile Licensing and Inspection Department (1962, architect N.E. Efimov), building 41 (1915, architect F.I. Lidval), building 43 (1931, architect E.A. Levinson), building 47 is the Youth Palace. In 1899-1900, the building of the Electrotechnical Institute was constructed (building 3/5 architect A.N. Vekshinsky), today it is Electrotechnical University. Research assistants of the institute were A.S. Popov, A.I. Berg, P.D. Voynarovsky, V.P. Vologdin, H.O. Graftio, V.V. Dmitriev, A.A. Shaposhnikov, M.A. Chatelaine, Y.M. Gakkel, A.F. Shorin. The following historical figures lived on Professora Popova Street: poetess V.M. Inber (building 4, 1941), in building 10 - man of letters V.O. Mikhnevich (1890s), artist M.V. Matyushin (1910s-40s), this building was visited by poets V.V. Mayakovsky and V.V. Khlebnikov, artists K.S. Malevich and P.N. Filonov. In 1942-44, writer V.V. Vishnevsky lived here. Building 24 housed the studio of sculptor A.M. Opekushin, where in the 1930s sculptors M.G. Manizer and E.A. Yanson-Manizer worked. On Professora Popova Street, there is the Influenza Scientific Research Institute (building 15/17) and Scientific Research Institute for Infantile Infections (building 9).

Reference: Ефремов Г. Улица профессора Попова // БА. 1968. № 13. С. 40-49; Грибанов В. П., Лурье Л. Я. Аптекарский остров. Л., 1988.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Berg Axel Ivanovich
Biryukov E.S.
Chatelaine Mikhail Andreevich
Dmitriev Vladimir Vladimirovich
Efimov Nikolay Efimovich
Filonov Pavel Nikolaevich
Gakkel Yakov Modestovich
Gevirtz Yakov Germanovich
Graftio Heinrich Osipovich
Grot Konstantin Karlovich
Inber Vera Mikhailovna
Kaliberda Ilya Borisovich
Khlebnikov Velimir (real name Viktor Vladimirovich)
Levinson Evgeny Adolfovich
Lidval Fedor (Iogan Friedrich) Ivanovich
Malevich Kazimir Severinovich
Manizer Matvey Genrikhovich
Matyushin Mikhail Vasilievich
Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich
Mikhnevich Vladimir Osipovich
Opekushin Alexander Mikhailovich
Popov A.A.
Shaposhnikov Alexander Alexandrovich
Shorin Alexander Fedorovich
Tomishko (Tomishka) Antony Osipovich (Iosifovich)
Ulman Robert Ottonovich
Vekshinsky Alexander Nikolaevich
Vishnevsky Vsevolod Vitalievich
Vologdin Valentin Petrovich
Voynarovsky Pavel Dmitrievich
Yanson-Manizer Elena Alexandrovna
Aptekarskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Aptekarsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Barochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Pesochnaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city
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Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 41
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Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 42
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 37, litera л. Б
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 33
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Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 15/17
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
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Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Vyazemsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Ефремов Г. Улица профессора Попова // Блокнот агитатора, 1968
Лурье Л. Я., Грибанов В. П. Аптекарский остров. Л., 1988 Youth Recreation Centre
State Electrotechnical University "LETI", St. Petersburg