City Sides (entry)

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CITY SIDES (St. Petersburg City Sides), a general name of St. Petersburg historical districts, which emerged in the early 18th century. Determined by St. Petersburg's location on different banks (sides) of the Neva River. The left-bank part of the city was called Moskovskaya Side as it is from here the road toward Moscow started. The territory between the Neva River and Moika River was called Admiralteiskaya Side. Both place-names disappeared from the city vocabulary in the early 20th century. One of the largest islands of the Neva delta - Gorodskoy (today Petrogradsky Island) and adjacent islands were called Gorodskaya Side (today -Petrogradskaya Side). The right bank of the Neva and Bolshaya Nevka was called Vyborgskaya Side - after an old road to Vyborg that once was there. In the first third of the 18th century, the territory of the former city Nyen, contiguous to the Swedish fortress Nyenschantz (Russian name Kantsi), was called Kantsevskaya Side.

Е. А. Bondarchuk, P.Y. Yudin. Адмиралтейская сторона
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