Lenina Street

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LENINA STREET, running between Sytninskaya Street and Levashovsky Avenue, on the Petrogradskaya Side. Known as Shirokaya Street until 1923. In 1956, it included the former Y. Kalinina Street (until 1923, Matveevskaya Street). The road was laid in the 1730s in the Koporsky Regiment settlement, and was renamed in memory of V.I. Lenin. In the late 19th - early 20th centuries, it was built up with apartment houses, including building no. 8 (1908-10, architects M.I. von Wilken, S.G. Ginger), building no. 32/66 (1907-08, architects A.L. Lishnevsky, P.P. Svetlitsky), and building no. 52 (1912-13, architect A.M. Erlich). In 1924-26, the Volkhov Hydroelectric Power Station was constructed (building 4-6, architects V.A. Shchuko, V.G. Gelfreich); and in 1956-58, the Union of Writers block of flats appeared (building 34, architect N.M. Nazarin). Prominent past residents of the street include S.L. Perovskaya (building no. 4); Soviet Party figure and statesman V.M. Molotov (building no. 24, 1917); writers L.I. Borisov, A.N. Chepurov, V.V. Konetsky, V.B. Azarov, V.S. Shefner, A.A. Akhmatova and others (building no. 34); and engineers M.T. Elizarov and A.I. Ulyanova-Elizarova (building no. 52). In 1917, V.I. Lenin, N.K. Krupskaya and M.I. Ulyanova stayed with Ulyanova-Elizarova's (see the Elizarov Memorial Apartment-Museum). In 1957, a bust to Lenin (sculptor V.I. Ingal) was erected in a public garden at the corner of Bolshoy Avenue of the Petrogradskaya Side and Lenina Street.

References: Сукновалов А. Е. Улица Ленина // БА. 1966. № 10. С. 39-46; Привалов В. Д. Улица Ленина // Там же. 1977. № 1. С. 41-49.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Akhmatova Anna Andreevna
Azarov Vsevolod Borisovich
Borisov Leonid Ilyich
Chepurov Anatoly Nikolaevich
Elizarov Mark Timofeevich
Erlich Alexander Markovich
Gelfreich Vladimir Georgievich
Ginger Sergey Grigorievich
Ingal Vladimir Iosifovich
Konetsky Boris Ivanovich
Krupskaya Nadezhda Konstantinovna
Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
Lishnevsky Alexander Lvovich
Molotov (real name Skryabin) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Nazarin Nikolay Mikhailovich
Perovskaya Sofia Lvovna
Shchuko Vladimir Alexeevich
Shefner Vadim Sergeevich
Svetlitsky Pavel Petrovich
Ulyanova Maria Ilyinichna
Ulyanova-Elizarova Anna Ilyinichna
Wilken Mikhail Ivanovich von
Bolshoy Ave of Petrograskaya Storona/Saint Petersburg, city
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 52
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 34
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 32/66
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Levashovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Sytninskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Сукновалов А. Е. Улица Ленина // Блокнот агитатора, 1966
Привалов В. Д. Улица Ленина // Блокнот агитатора, 1977 Union of Writers, the Leningrad Department
The Elisarovs' museum apartment