Revolyutsii Freeway

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REVOLYUTSII FREEWAY (until 1923 Porokhovskoe Freeway), between Piskarevsky Avenue and Kommuny Street. It was named after the October Revolution. The road was constructed in the first quarter of the 18th century as the road to the powder-mill (hence the first name). In 1781-85, Church of St. Elijah the Prophet was erected (building 75). By the late 19th century, the majority of buildings were formed by wooden residential houses and buildings of Okhtinsky powder-mill. During the Siege of 1941-44, the Road of Life went along the freeway. The present-day architecture was shaped in the late 1950s. On the ground between Piskarevsky Avenue and Energetikov Avenue, standard 5-14-storied residential houses dominate. In the 1960s, the Park of the October Revolution Fiftieth Anniversary was laid out. On Revolyutsii Freeway, there are following plants: Polyustrovo Mineral Water Bottling Plant (4 Tukhachevskogo Street), Medpolimer (building 69), the plant producing laminate plastic (building 84), etc. Building 31 is the Ladoga Cinema, building 85 houses Registration and Examination Department of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Energetikov Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Kommuny St./Saint Petersburg, city
Marshala Tukhachevsky St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Piskarevsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Revolyutsii Freeway/Saint Petersburg, city
Revolyutsii Freeway/Saint Petersburg, city, house 75
Revolyutsii Freeway/Saint Petersburg, city, house 69
Revolyutsii Freeway/Saint Petersburg, city, house 84
Revolyutsii Freeway/Saint Petersburg, city, house 85
Church of St. Elijah the Prophet
Siege of 1941-44
Road of Life