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Adress index / Saint Petersburg, city / Turgeneva Square
История переименований:
Turgeneva Square (the late 1920s)
Pokrovskaya Square (1822 - October 6, 1923)
Pisatelya Turgeneva Square (October 6, 1923 - 1928 )

Angliisky Avenue

ANGLIISKY AVENUE, from 1771 - Aglinskaya Perspective or Anglinsky Avenue; from 1846 it possessed its present-day name; in 1918-94 - Maklina, or MacLean, Avenue in honour of English socialist John MacLean (1879-1923) elected an honorary deputy

Holy Virgin Intercession Church

HOLY VIRGIN INTERCESSION CHURCH, (Turgeneva Square), constructed on parish donations in Bolshaya Kolomna in 1798-1812 in the style of high Classicism (architect I. E. Starov)

Kolomna

KOLOMNA, a historical district in the west part of St. Petersburg, between the Bolshaya Neva, Moika, Fontanka and Kryukov Canal. The name appeared in the early 18th century, most likely, on account of working people from the town of Kolomna

Petrashevsky M.V. (1821-1866), revolutionary

PETRASHEVSKY (Butashevich-Petrashevsky) Mikhail Vasilievich (1821, St. Petersburg 1866), public figure. In 1836-40 studied at Tsarskoselsky Lyceum, in 1840-41 – audited classes at the Faculty of Law of Petersburg University; received an academic

Sadovaya Street

SADOVAYA STREET (from 1923 to 1944 - Third of July Street, the section from Italyanskaya Street up to Ekaterininsky Canal; from the 1730s to 1887, it was known as Bolshaya Sadovaya Street; the part from Moika River Embankment to Italyanskaya Street

Tramway

TRAMWAY (borrowed into Russian as the word derived from English tram (carriage) and way), a means of city rail transport. Three kinds of tramways are known: horse-drawn (see Horse-tram)

Turgenev I.S. (1818-1883), writer

TURGENEV Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883), writer, associate of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1860). In 1834 he transferred from the University of Moscow to the Philological Department of the Faculty of Philosophy of Petersburg University

Turgeneva Square

TURGENEVA SQUARE, Pokrovskaya Square until 1923, at the intersection of Sadovaya Street (the numeration of the buildings on the square follows the numerical order set on Sadovaya Street) and Angliisky Avenue; the square is the centre of Kolomna area