Bolsheokhtinsky Avenue

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BOLSHEOKHTINSKY AVENUE, one of the main roads in Bolshaya Okhta lying between Krasnogvardeiskaya Square and Revolyutsii Freeway. It was called Bolshoy Okhtensky Avenue from the 1820s and Bolshe-Okhtensky Avenue from the 1880s to 1956. The avenue included Gorushechnaya Street from Bolshaya Porokhovskaya Street in 1958, which was so named after the former Gorushka Market situated near the present-day house 14. The Head Office of Okhtinskoe Admiralty was situated not far from Kontorskaya Street, later - Okhta Suburban Council (house 3) with an alms-house built by architect P. P. Merkulov in 1865-67, out houses built in 1886-87, and fire tower built in 1900s. Modern houses were built in 1950-70s. In Bolsheokhtinsky Avenue, there is Okhtinskaya Hotel (house 4) and a music library (house 8).

Reference: Метлицкий Б. Г. Об Охте. Л., 1964.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Merkulov Peter Petrovich
Bolshaya Porokhovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Bolsheokhtinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Bolsheokhtinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Bolsheokhtinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Bolsheokhtinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Bolsheokhtinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Kontorskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Krasnogvardeiskaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Revolyutsii Freeway/Saint Petersburg, city
Большая Охта
Метлицкий Б. Г. Об Охте. Л., 1964