Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island

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SREDNY AVENUE OF VASILIEVSKY ISLAND (called Malaya Pershpektiva from the 1730s until the 1770s, known as Mussorgskogo Avenue in 1939-44), from Makarova Embankment to Nalichnaya Street. In 1972 the avenue incorporated the length of the road running from Detskaya Street to Nalichnaya Street, previously known as Malogavansky Avenue. Sredny Avenue was extended in the 1720s. The most part of the buildings pertaining to the turn of the 19th-20th centuries consists of apartment houses. Among the buildings of Sredny Avenue, the following should be distinguished: house No. 17 (Brullov family house, first half of the 18th century); house No. 18, formerly St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church (engineer K. Bulmering, the 1870s); house No. 14 (1907, architect F.A. Korzukhin); house No. 24 (Aladov's house, the 1800s); house No. 31 (1897, architect A.R. Gerschwend); house No. 45 and house No. 47 (1915 and 1911, architect A.F. Baranovsky); house No. 53 (1912, architects S.S. Serafimov, I.A. Pretro); house No. 48, comprising a building for a theatre (1892, architect A.F. Krasovsky); house No. 74, former Geological Committee, present-day Karpinsky Institute of Geology; No. 77, the tramway depot of Vasilievsky Island (1907); house No. 82, the Institute of Mining Geomechanics and Mine Surveying (1956, architect B.M. Serebrovsky). House No. 4 accommodates Giprotsement State Institute for the Designing for the Cement Industry; No. 86, houses the Aluminium-Magnesium Institute, while No. 87 is a swimming-pool. Among the residents of Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island were: A.P. Gannibal (on the site of house No. 11, the 1740s), artist A.G. Venetsianov (house No. 44, the 1830s), I.P. Pavlov (house No. 7/46, 1870-71), P.L. Chebyshev (house No. 10/25, the 1840s), A.N. Pypin (house No. 13/41, 1895-1904), I.N. Kramskoy (house No. 28, 1863), P.A. Fedotov (house No. 56, the 1840s). There is also Vasileostrovskaya Metro Station on Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island.

References: Никитенко Г. Ю., Соболь В. Д. Василеостровский район: Энцикл. улиц С.-Петербурга. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. СПб., 2002.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Aladov Nikolay Ivanovich
Baranovsky Alexander Fedorovich
Bulmering Karl Karlovich
Chebyshev Pafnuty Lvovich
Fedotov Pavel Andreevich
Gannibal Abram (Ibrahim) Petrovich
Geschwend Alexander Romanovich
Karpinsky Alexander Petrovich
Korzukhin Fedor Alexeevich
Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich
Krasovsky Alexander Fedorovich
Pavlov Ivan Petrovich
Pretro Ippolit Alexandrovich
Pypin Alexander Nikolaevich
Serafimov Sergey Savvich
Serebrovsky Boris Mikhailovich
the Bryullovs
Venetsianov Alexander Gavrilovich
Detskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Makarova Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Nalichnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 74
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 48
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 77
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 28
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 13/41
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10/25
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7/46
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 44
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 86
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 82
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 56
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 53
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 45
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 31
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 24
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Никитенко Г. Ю., Соболь В. Д. Василеостровский район: Энцикл. улиц С.-Петербурга. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. СПб., 2002 Karpinsky All-Russian Geological Institute