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Dachnaya, river

Categories / City Topography/Waterways and Currents/Rivers

DACHNAYA, a river in the south-west of St. Petersburg, formerly a left tributary to the Krasnenkaya River. The river is drawn from the west of the village of Staropanovo. This name was given to the river in the 19th century after the locality of Dachnoe. In the 1960s, during a large-scale housing development, the lower section of its channel north of Leninsky Avenue was filled in. The upper reaches of the Dachnaya were canalised and are used for land-reclamation. The extant sections of the river represent a system of elongated developed ponds, connected one with another by small canals; they are situated in the residential areas between Leni Golikova Street and Tankista Khrustitskogo Street, as well as north of Veteranov Avenue (between Dachny Avenue and Leninsky Avenue).

Y. P. Seliverstov.