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Basseinaya Street
BASSEINAYA STREET, translated as Pool Street, between Kubinskaya Street and Vitebsky Avenue. The name originated from a canal (pool) that was then in design. The street is roughly in line with the former Azovskaya Street, Erivanskaya Street
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Belevskoe Field
BELEVSKOE FIELD, an area to the south-east of St. Petersburg, confined with Alexandrovskoy Fermy Avenue, Sedova Street, Krasnykh Zor Boulevard and Moskovskaya Line of Oktyabrskaya Railway
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Belinskogo Street
BELINSKOGO STREET, until 1923 - Simeonovskaya Street, between Fontanka River Embankment and Liteiny Avenue. The street was so named after V. G. Belinsky. The previous name was in honour of SS Simon and Anna Church situated at number 6. Architect G
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Beloostrov
BELOOSTROV, a municipal unit (since 1998) forming a part of Kurortny District of St. Petersburg, 30 km to the north-west of the city centre, on the banks of the Sestra River, 3 km upstream from the place where it flows into Sestroretsky Razliv Lake
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Bely Island
BELY ISLAND, artificial island at the mouth of the Bolshaya Neva River. It was built by reclaiming the so-called Bely Shoal in the mid-20th century. It is 55 hectares in area, one kilometre long, and 600 metres wide
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Berezovy Island
BEREZOVY ISLAND, 1) named Petrogradsky Island until the early 18th century, which is accurately translated from the Finnish name of Koivusaari. 2) From 1799, the name Berezovy Island was transferred to the small island about one hectare in area
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Bezymyanny Island
BEZYMYANNY ISLAND, large territory over 16 square kilometres in area situated in the centre of St. Petersburg between the Neva, Monastyrka River, Obvodny Canal, Fontanka River, and Ekaterinhofka River
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Birzhevaya Square
BIRZHEVAYA SQUARE, translated as Exchange Square, in 1937-89 - Pushkinskaya Square. The square lies on the spit of Vasilievsky Island between Universitetskaya Embankment and Makarova Embankment
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Bogatyrsky Avenue
BOGATYRSKY AVENUE, a part of the central ring road lying between Kolomyazhsky Avenue and Kamyshovaya Street. The name of Bogatyrsky Avenue and the neighbouring streets is associated with the history of national aviation - the first multi-engine
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Bolotnaya Street
BOLOTNAYA STREET, translated as Swamp Street, between Toreza Avenue and Novorossiiskaya Street. It appeared in swampy area (hence the name) in the early-to-mid 19th century
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Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street
BOLSHAYA KONYUSHENNAYA STREET (in 1918,-91 Zhelyabova Street, in memory of А. I. Zhelyabov), located between Konyushennaya Square and Nevsky Prospect. It was laid out in the early 1730s from the Court Stable (in Russian, Konyushenny) Yard buildings
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Bolshaya Neva
BOLSHAYA NEVA, the largest left branch of the the Neva river delta; a continuation of the Neva River below the Dvortsovaya Bridge. The Bolshaya Neva flows into the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland, in the area surrounded by Vasilievsky Island
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Bolshaya Nevka
BOLSHAYA NEVKA, the extreme right branch of the Neva River delta, which flows off the main channel 500 metres below the Liteiny Bridge. It separates Vyborgskaya Side from Petrogradskaya Side and flows into the Neva Bay below the Spit of Elagin
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Bolshaya Okhta, locality
BOLSHAYA OKHTA, a locality in the east of St. Petersburg, on the right bank of the Neva River, surrounded by the Okhta River, Energetikov Avenue and Revolyutsii Freeway
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Bolshaya Zelenina Street
BOLSHAYA ZELENINA STREET, running from Maly Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side to Admirala Lazareva Embankment. The street was laid in the 1710s as a road leading from the St
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Bolsheokhtinsky Avenue
BOLSHEOKHTINSKY AVENUE, one of the main roads in Bolshaya Okhta lying between Krasnogvardeiskaya Square and Revolyutsii Freeway. It was called Bolshoy Okhtensky Avenue from the 1820s and Bolshe-Okhtensky Avenue from the 1880s to 1956
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Bolshevikov Avenue
BOLSHEVIKOV AVENUE, a part of the central ring road lying between Kollontay Street and Oktyabrskaya Embankment. It was laid in the right-bank part of Nevsky District where names of streets are associated with the history of the revolutionary
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Bolshoy Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side
BOLSHOY AVENUE OF PETROGRADSKAYA SIDE, in the 18th century - Bolshaya Road, Bolshaya Garnizonnaya Road, Bolshaya Ofitserskaya Street, in 1919-44 - K. Libknekhta Avenue. It lies between Dobrolyubova Avenue and Karpovka River Embankment
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Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island
BOLSHOY AVENUE OF VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, in 1720s-1780s - Bolshaya Prospektivaya or Bolshaya Pershpektivaya Street, in 1918-22 - F. Adlera Avenue, in 1922-44 - Proletarskoy Pobedy Avenue
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Borodinskaya Street
BORODINSKAYA STREET between Fontanka River Embankment and Zagorodny Avenue. It was laid through the land owned by St. Petersburg Bourgeois Society. Development of the area started in the early 20th century
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Botanic Garden
BOTANIC GARDEN (2 Professora Popova Street) originates from the Apothecary Garden (established by order of Tsar Peter the Great). Its overall area was 22.9 ha including 2.5 ha of conservatories and buildings, 16
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Botkinskaya Street
BOTKINSKAYA STREET, from the late 18th century - Ofitserskaya Street, in 1858-98 - Samarskaya Street. It runs from Lenina Square to Voennykh Medikov Square and Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue
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Bumazhny Canal
Bumazhny Canal (Paper Canal) was dug between the Ekaterinhofka River and the Tarakanovka River for practical purposes in the second half of the 18th century. It bears its name from the Ekaterinhof Cotton Mill (today
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Buyans (entry)
BUYANS, is the common name of the small, often artificial, islands that were used to accommodate warehouses for various goods easily transportable by water between the 18th and the early 20th century
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Bychy Island
BYCHY ISLAND situated between the Bolshaya Nevka River, Srednaya Nevka River, and Grebnoy Canal. It is 14 hectares in area, 800 meters long and 200 metres wide
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Canals (entry)
CANALS are artificial waterways built from the time of St. Petersburg's founding to drain low and swamp lands and create convenient access to ship construction materials and other cargoes (Peter the Great’s wish to create "a second Venice" another
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Canals of Galley Yard
CANALS OF THE GALLEY YARD were dug at the beginning of the 18th century in the western end of Admiralty Island, at the place of the Galley Yard. In 1711 and 1716
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Catherine Park (Pushkin town), ensemble
CATHERINE PARK (Pushkin town), a monument of landscape architecture and the central part of Tsarskoe Selo palace ensemble. Its consists of a total of 107 hectares The park consists of a grassed and a landscape areas, divided by the Great Pond
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Catherine Square
CATHERINE SQUARE is situated in the centre of St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospect. It is surrounded by the architecture ensemble of the Anichkov Palace, Alexandrinsky Theatre, and Russian National Library. The park was laid out in 1820-32 (architect K
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Central Park of Culture and Recreation
CENTRAL PARK OF CULTURE AND RECREATION was opened on Elagin Island in 1931 on the basis of a park which existed from the second half of the 18th century. The park was named after S. M. Kirov from 1934 until the beginning of the 1990s
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