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Youth Recreation Centre
Youth Recreation Centre
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YOUTH RECREATION CENTRE (47 Professor Popov Street), built in 1969-80 (architects P.S. Prokhorov, V.P. Tropin, A.P. Izoitko, engineers V.V. Panova, M.E. Khristiansen) as the first recreational centre for young people in the USSR. The flat, elongated building houses a concert hall seating 1,500 (A.I. Raykin, A.A. Mironov, N.S. Mikhalkov, M.A. Dudin and many others appeared on its stage, the comic-group Litsedey (Mummers) led by V.I. Polunin started its career here), show-room and ballroom, winter garden which covers 1000 square meters, a swimming-pool and other facilities. The complex of Youth Recreation Centre also includes a 14-storeyed hotel with 250 rooms. There is also a sporting complex (in 1994 the Open Commonwealth of Independent States Bodybuilding Championship took place here, in 1998 - the 51st All-Russian Chess Championship), an indoor water park, bowling, billiards, and American pool, as well as a business-centre and conference halls. The radio stations Europa Plus St. Petersburg and Radio Retro broadcast from the building of the Centre. Presently it is Leningrad Youth Recreation Centre, Co. Ltd. I. A. Bogdanov.
Persons
Dudin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Izoitko Askold Petrovich
Khristiansen M. E.
Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeevich
Mironov Andrey Alexandrovich
Panova V.V.
Polunin Vyacheslav Ivanovich
Prokhorov P.S.
Raykin Arkady Isaakovich
Tropin V. P.
Addresses
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
Chronograph
1976
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Aptekarsky Island
APTEKARSKY ISLAND, (Apothecary Island), situated in the estuary of the Neva River between the Karpovka River separating it from Petrogradsky Island, Malaya Nevka River, and Bolshaya Nevka River. It is 198 hectares in area, 2.7 kilometres long and 1
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Palaces and Houses of Culture (entry)
PALACES AND HOUSES OF CULTURE, multifunctional club-type recreation centres, assigned to professional associations and factory workers' leisure organizations. They were established in Leningrad from the 1920s
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Pesochnaya Embankment
PESOCHNAYA EMBANKMENT situated on Aptekarsky Island between Kamennoostrovsky Avenue and Karpovka River Embankment. It was laid on the left bank of the Malaya Nevka River in 1820s and named Pesochnaya Embankment (Sand Embankment) because of the sandy
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Petrogradsky District
PETROGRADSKY DISTRICT, an administrative and territorial unit of St. Petersburg, with its administration located at 19 Bolshaya Monetnaya Street. The district was formed in 1917, and in 1936 the Primorsky District was separated from its territory
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Professora Popova Street
PROFESSORA POPOVA STREET (in the 1810s - Pesochny Avenue, from the middle of the 19th century to 1940 - Pesochnaya Street), between Aptekarskaya Embankment and Pesochnaya Embankment, on Aptekarsky Island
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