Sosnovka (Vyborgsky District)

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SOSNOVKA, a historical district in the north of St. Petersburg, in the north-east it joins Sosnovka park, in the south-west it is confined with Nauki Avenue, Gzhatskaya Street, Favorskogo Street, Politehnicheskaya Street and Toreza Avenue. It was named after a village that was located here in the late 18th - early 20th centuries. In the early 18th century, the territory of Sosnovka belonged to the treasury; in the late 18th century, it was granted to senator I.I. Kushelev. Since the late 19th century, Sosnovka was a rural area forming a part of the suburban wood lot. In 1899-1902, the Polytechnic Institute complex was constructed in Sosnovka. In the 1930s, numerous scientific, educational and research-production enterprises were constructed in the south part of Sosnovka, with Boiler-and-Turbine Institute, Direct Current Institute, Applied-Physics Institute and Military Academy of Communications with an inhabited area among them. During the Siege of 1941-44, a military aerodrome of the same name was constructed to the west of Sosnovka. In the 1950-70s, the complexes of the Television Scientific Research Institute, the Cytology Scientific Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Avrora Scientific Development and Production Association, the Positron Scientific Development and Production Association, the Impulse Scientific Development, the Production Association and other establishments were constructed in the Sosnovka. By the beginning of the 1960s, present-day planning had been developed: the territory along Toreza Avenue, Svetlanovsky Avenue and Nauki Avenue were built up with standard residential blocks of flats. In 1975, metro stations Ploshchad Muzhestva and Politekhnicheskaya started functioning.

Е. А. Bondarchuk, P.Y. Yudin. Kushelev I.I.
Favorskogo St./Saint Petersburg, city
Gzhatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Nauki Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Politekhnicheskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Polytechnical University
Ioffe Physics-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Siege of 1941-44
Cell Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of
Pozitron, Research and Development Association