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Troitskaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
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Avsteria Traktir
AVSTERIA. Also know as the Osteria; traktir from the Italian meaning "public house"; austeritas, from the Latin meaning "gloomy, dark, rough". The first drinking- and gambling-house in St
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Baranov N.V. (1909-1989), architect
BARANOV Nikolay Varfolomeevich (1909-1989), architect, National architect of the USSR (1972), the full member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR (1979). He graduated from the College of Hydraulic Engineers (1931) and from the Academy of Fine
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Building Office
BUILDING OFFICE was a state institution, directing the development of St. Petersburg. In was founded in 1706, and until 1723 it was called Municipal Affairs Office, it exercised control of the city construction and urban planning
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Fires (entry)
FIRES. Especially common in the first years of St. Petersburg's existence. The first large fire happened in 1710 on Troitskaya Square. A prohibition against constructing wooden houses within city limits was issued in 1727
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Founding of St. Petersburg
FOUNDING OF ST. PETERSBURG. In May 1703, after the surrender of Nyenschantz, Tsar Peter the Great decided to build a fortress at the mouth of the Neva River on Zayachy Island
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Gorodskoy Island
GORODSKOY ISLAND, name of Petrogradsky Island in the first third of the 18th century. The first city buildings were constructed in the island near the present-day Troitskaya Square. Troitsky Island was another name used at that time.
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Guryev O.I. (1912-1986), architect.
GURYEV Oleg Ivanovich (1912, St. Petersburg - 1986, Leningrad), architect, artist. Upon graduating from the Leningrad Engineering and Urban Planning Institute (1935) he worked in the Lenproject Institute, in 1943-60, was in charge of a workshop
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Holy Trinity and St Peter's Cathedral
HOLY TRINITY AND ST PETER'S CATHEDRAL, located at Troitskaya Square. An 18th century architectural monument. The first wooden church on this place was built in 1709-11, by order of Tsar Peter the Great
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Inns (entry)
INNS. Establishments featuring apartments and rooms for lodgers, as well as dining halls (similar to modern hotels). In the early 18th century kharchevnies (taverns) were also called inns or traktirs (Avsteria, Krasny Kabachok)
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Kamennoostrovsky Avenue
KAMENNOOSTROVSKY AVENUE, located between Troitskaya Square and the Bolshaya Nevka River Embankment. The main thoroughfare joining the city centre and the Petrogradskaya Side with Aptekarsky Island and Kamenny Island
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Kronverkskaya Embankment
KRONVERKSKAYA EMBANKMENT is located between Troitskaya Square and Kronverksky Avenue along the right bank of Kronverksky Strait. It was laid in 1980 and received its name after Kronverk at the same time
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Kronverksky Avenue
KRONVERKSKY AVENUE, between Troitskaya Square and Mytninskaya Embankment, on the Petrogradskaya Side; its semicircular arch includes the territory of Alexandrovsky Park. The avenue was constructed in the first half of the 18th century
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Kuybysheva Street
KUYBYSHEVA STREET (until 1918, Bolshaya Dvoryanskaya Street; until 1935, 1st Derevenskoy Bednoty Street), located between Troitskaya Square and Petrogradskaya Embankment, on the Petrogradskaya Side. The street was named after Soviet statesman V.V
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Markets (general)
MARKETS. Markets, especially food markets, were very popular in Russia as early as before the time of Peter the Great. The first market appeared in St. Petersburg in 1705 on Troitskaya Square with hundreds of stalls, but no windows or ovens
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Mosque
MOSQUE, Central Mosque, located at 7 Kronverksky Avenue. An architectural monument, constructed in 1910-13 on a lot near Troitskaya Square bought in 1907 by the Emir of Bukhara. Designed by architects N. V. Vasilyev, S. S. Krichinsky and A. I
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Petrogradskaya Side
PETROGRADSKAYA SIDE (in the 18th century - Gorodskaya Side, until 1914 - Peterburgskaya Side), the joint name of the territory that includes the following islands: Petrogradsky, Aptekarsky, Petrovsky and Zayachy
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Petrovskaya Embankment
PETROVSKAYA EMBANKMENT lying between Troitskaya Square and Petrogradskaya Embankment on the right bank of the Neva River on Petrogradskaya Side. It appeared in what was then the city centre in the 1700s as the first embankment of St. Petersburg
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Political Persecution
POLITICAL PERSECUTION refers to large-scale punitive measures organized by the Soviet Government from October 1917 on with a purpose of physical removal of real or potential political opponents
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Salute of 27 January 1944
SALUTE OF 27 JANUARY 1944, military ceremony in honour of the Lifting of the Siege; the only salute of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 outside Moscow. Fired at 20:00 from the embankment at the St
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Solovetsky Stone, monument
SOLOVETSKY STONE, a memorial in the public garden on Troitskaya Square, mounted by the Memorial Society on 4 September 2002 (artists E.I. Ukhnalev, Y.A. Rybakov) in memory of victims of political repression (a gift for the tercentenary of St
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Toponymy of St. Petersburg
TOPONYMY OF ST. PETERSBURG, a corpus of names of geographical points situated on the territory of St. Petersburg. Names of rivers, islands, and villages located on the city's future territory appeared long before its foundation
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Town Council
TOWN COUNCIL, the organ of city government. In St. Petersburg it was set up in the 1710s by the Tsar Peter the Great as an organ for management of merchants and commerce. It was located in Troitskaya Square
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Troitskaya Square
TROITSKAYA SQUARE, called Kommuny Square from 1918 to 1923, then known as Revolyutsii Square until 1991, between Kamennoostrovsky Avenue and Kuybysheva Street. The square appeared in the early 18th century on Gorodskoy (present-day Petrogradsky)
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Troitsky Bridge
TROITSKY BRIDGE (Trinity Bridge; in 1918-34 Ravenstva Bridge, in 1934-99 Kirovsky Bridge), across the Bolshaya Neva River, connecting Suvorova Square with Troitskaya Square (hence, the name) and Kamennoostrovsky Avenue
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Victims of Political Repressions, Monuments,
MONUMENTS TO THE VICTIMS OF POLITICAL REPRESSIONS, the foundation stone of the monument To the Victims of Political Repressions in Petrograd -Leningrad was laid in 1990 on Revolyutsii Square that was given its historical name, Troitskaya Square
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