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                                                                                                  Nikolsky Alexander Sergeevich
                                                      
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                                                        Nikolsky A. S. (1884-1953), architect 
                                                                           
                         
                        NIKOLSKY Alexander Sergeevich (1884-1953, Leningrad), architect, doctor of architecture, full member of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR (1939). Since 1902, resided in St. Petersburg. Graduated from the Civil Engineering Institute (1912)
                                             
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                                                        Architectural-Construction University, St. Petersburg State 
                                                                           
                         
                        ARCHITECTURAL-CONSTRUCTION UNIVERSITY, St. Petersburg State, located at 4 Second Krasnoarmeiskaya Street, was established in 1832 as the College for Civil Engineering. It was renamed the Institute for Civil Engineering in 1882
                                             
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                                                        Baths (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        BATHS. The first baths in St. Petersburg were built near rivers and other reservoirs, separate from residential houses. About 30 so-called commercial baths were constructed by 1720. Construction was paid for by the Treasury
                                             
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                                                        College Buildings 
                                                                           
                         
                        COLLEGE BUILDINGS, group of college buildings including classes, workshops, library, assembly hall, recreation rooms, dormitories, etc. Among the first college buildings were the buildings of the Cadet Corps, Academy of Arts, Foster House
                                             
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                                                        Constructivism 
                                                                           
                         
                        CONSRTUCTIVISM, the main style in the architecture of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s and early 1930s. Based on the principle of functionality expressed in dynamically separated structures, it featured well-defined spaces and laconic surfaces
                                             
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                                                        Crafts Academy 
                                                                           
                         
                        CRAFTS ACADEMY, State, Saint Petersburg (13 Solyanoy Lane) is one of the leading creative academies in Russia, originating from the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing (CSTD, 1876-1924)
                                             
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                                                        Gegello A.I. (1891-1965), architect. 
                                                                           
                         
                        GEGELLO Alexander Ivanovich (1891-1965), architect. Resided in St. Petersburg since 1910. Graduated from the College of Civil Engineers (1920) and from the Academy of Fine Arts, Higher School of Art and Technology (1923)
                                             
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                                                        Kirov Stadium 
                                                                           
                         
                        KIROV STADIUM (25 Yuzhnaya Road), the largest sports facility of St. Petersburg. The construction began in 1933 (the project was approved in 1937) by the summer of 1941 most early works were finished
                                             
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                                                        Muzhestva Square 
                                                                           
                         
                        MUZHESTVA SQUARE known as Murinskaya or Spasskaya Square before 1965, between Karbysheva Street, Politekhnicheskaya Street, Second Murinsky Avenue, Toreza Avenue, and Nepokorennykh Avenue
                                             
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                                                        Primorsky Park of Victory 
                                                                           
                         
                        PRIMORSKY PARK OF VICTORY is located on Krestovsky Island. The total area of the park is 168 hectares. Primorsky Park was laid out according to the designs of architect A. S
                                             
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                                                        Residential Blocks (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS, a site development system typical for new city districts built in the 1920-30s. Due to an acute demand for accommodations in the mid-1920s, individual home building was replaced by residential blocks - a new type of city
                                             
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                                                        Simonov G. А. (1893-1974), architect 
                                                                           
                         
                        SIMONOV Grigory Alexandrovich (1893-1974), architect. Graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineering (1920). In the 1920s, he headed the project bureau of the Urban Planning Committee
                                             
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                                                        Stachek Avenue 
                                                                           
                         
                        STACHEK AVENUE, called Petergofskoe Highway until 1923, then known as Stachek Street until 1940, between Stachek Square and the place where Marshala Zhukova Avenue and Petergofskoe Freeway intersect
                                             
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                                                        Stachek Square 
                                                                           
                         
                        STACHEK SQUARE, known as Narvskaya Square until 1923, at the intersection of Stachek Avenue, Narvsky Avenue and Staro-Petergofsky Avenue. The square assumed the present-day name in commemoration of the strike movement (the name of the square
                                             
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                                                        Traktornaya Street 
                                                                           
                         
                        TRAKTORNAYA STREET, from Stachek Avenue to Sivkov Lane. The street was laid on the place of Krylova Lane and named so in 1926 in commemoration of the output of the first tractors at the Krasny Putilovets plant (present-day Kirov Plant)
                                             
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                                                        Union of Architects 
                                                                           
                         
                        UNION OF ARCHITECTS, St. Petersburg Branch (52 Bolshaya Morskaya Street), creative association of architects, formed in 1932-33 (the statute was ratified in 1937, to be changed repeatedly). The first president was architect M
                                             
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                                                        Volodarsky Bridge 
                                                                           
                         
                        VOLODARSKY BRIDGE, across the Neva River, joining Ivanovskaya (left bank of Neva River) and Narodnaya streets. Named in memory of the revolutionary V. Volodarsky, killed in 1918 in this area. Built in 1932-36 (engineers G.P. Peredery, V.I
                                             
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