Narodnogo Opolchenia Avenue

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NARODNOGO OPOLCHENIA AVENUE translated as Avenue of the People's Volunteer Corps, lying between Krasnoputilovskaya Street and Letchika Pilyutova Street and crossing districts of Knyazhevo, Dachnoe, Ulyanka, Ligovo, and Sosnovaya Polyana. The stretch behind Marshala Zhukova Avenue was known as Rabochy Avenue from 1930s. The avenue received its present-day name in 1964 in memory of the People's Volunteer Corps organised in Leningrad in 1941. Laid in 1960s, it ran along Baltiiskaya Railway so houses, mainly residential, were built on one side of the avenue in 1960-70s. Narodnogo Opolchenia Avenue is a major artery with a number of railway stations situated in it such as Dachnoe, Ulyanka, Ligovo, and Sosnovaya Polyana.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Krasnoputilovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Letchika Pilyutova St./Saint Petersburg, city
Marshala Zhukova Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Narodnogo Opolcheniya Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
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