Leninsky Avenue

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LENINSKY AVENUE, running between Doblesti Street and Moskovskaya Square, part of the Central Circular Highway. It connects Yugo-Zapad and Ulyanka settlement, and Dachny and Moskovsky Avenues. The avenue, named in 1977 after V.I. Lenin, integrated the former Galstyana Street (since 1955), Geroev Avenue (since 1962) and a new section heading towards the Gulf of Finland. Leninsky Avenue began to be developed in 1953 (with 10-story residential buildings raised near Moskovskaya Square, architect S.B. Speransky), and continued through the 1960-90s (architect E.M. Poltoratsky). Prominent buildings on Leninsky Avenue include the St. Petersburg State Newspaper Complex (building no. 139), the Scientific Research Institute of Mineral-Salt Production (building no. 140, 1977, architect A.V. Zhuk), trolleybus depot № 4 (building 140/2, architect O.B. Golynkin), the Dinamo Sports Equipment Factory and Volna Sewing Workshop (building no. 140/2), the Logovaz-Neva Auto-Centre (building no. 146), the Lengipromez Scientific Research Institute and the Giproruda Design Institute (building no. 151), the Lenpromstroiproekt Institute (building no. 160), and the Energomashproekt Institute (building no. 168, 1974, architect I.N. Stupelman). There is also a railway station nearby (above the overpass, opened in 1970), and a metro station bearing the same name (1977, architect A.S. Getskin, E.I. Wahl). Reinforced concrete pillboxes, constructed in 1943 up to the Izhora Defense Line, have been preserved.

References: Афонченко А. А. Проспект Героев // СиАЛ. 1966. № 6. С. 12-15; Булдаков Г. Н. Ленинский проспект города Ленина // Там же. 1977. № 7. С. 4-8; Лисовский В. Г. Ленинград: Р-ны новостроек. Л., 1983.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Getskin A.S.
Golynkin Oleg Borisovich
Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
Poltoratsky Evgeny Mikhailovich
Speransky Sergey Borisovich
Stupelman I.N.
Wahl E.I.
Zhuk Alexander Vladimirovich
Doblesti Street/Saint Petersburg, city
Leninsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 160
Leninsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 146
Leninsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 140/2
Leninsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 140
Leninsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 139
Leninsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 168
Leninsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Leninsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 151
Moskovskaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
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Афонченко А. А. Проспект Героев // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1966
Лисовский В. Г. Ленинград: Р-ны новостроек. Л., 1983
Булдаков Г. Н. Ленинский проспект города Ленина // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1977