Stachek Avenue

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STACHEK AVENUE, called Petergofskoe Highway until 1923, then known as Stachek Street until 1940, between Stachek Square and the place where Marshala Zhukova Avenue and Petergofskoe Freeway intersect. The avenue was opened in the 18th century as a section of a post road leading towards Narva and Reval (Tallinn) and a road to Peterhof at the same time (see Petergofskaya Road). The corner of present-day Trefoleva Street and Stachek Avenue still holds a marble milestone, remaining from that time. Until the early 20th century, the villages of Volynkina, Tenteleva (Tentelevka), Emelyanovka and Avtovo were situated south of Stachek Avenue. In the 18th-19th centuries country estates and summer residences of St. Petersburg nobility stretched along the road. Among them, the summer residence of E.R. Dashkova called Kiryanovo (house No. 45) and K.E. Sivers' summer residence (house No. 158, built in the mid-18th century, reconstructed in the 1950s, Kirovets Recreation Centre at present) have been preserved. The present-day area of the houses Nos. 26-36 used to be occupied by Krasnaya Myza (Red Grange) summer residence, while the area built over with houses Nos. 132-134 accommodated Levendal summer residence; both residences belonged to the Naryshkin family. In 1801 an iron foundry was transferred from Kronstadt to the district of Stachek Avenue; in 1868 it was given the name Putilov Plant, and now is the Kirov Plant. In the second half of the 19th century the area became a major thoroughfare of Narvskaya Zastava: here barracks and wooden houses for workers were being constructed, and a number of churches were erected. Starting from the 1920s, the thoroughfare together with the adjacent territory underwent reconstruction work. In 1925-27, the junction with Traktornaya Street became the site of the building of a housing estate (houses Nos. 31-33; architects A.I. Gegello, A.S. Nikolsky, G.A. Simonov), while the opposite side of the avenue accommodated the school named after the 10th anniversary of October 1917 (present-day school No. 384) (house No. 11, architects A.S.Nikolsky, A.V. Krestin). Next to the school the housing estate of Turbinnaya Street was built (houses Nos.11-13, formerly Serafimovsky Area; 1925-27, architects Gegello, Simonov, Nikolsky) along with Kirovskaya Square. In 1934, a building of Kirovsky District Soviet was built in the avenue (house No. 18; architect N.A. Trotsky); at the same time the Ninth of January Children's Park was laid out. In 1941-44, the Leningrad defence line ran close to Stachek Avenue. Nowadays at the junction of Stachek Avenue with Marshala Zhukova Avenue, there is the Kirovsky Rampart memorial. The Victory Tank monument was set up in 1951 at the site where a temporary triumphal arch once stood, erected in 1945 to commemorate the place where Leningraders' welcomed the returning, victorious soldiers, a reinforced concrete pillbox can still be found nearby (architects V.A. Kamensky and G.F. Vetyutneva).

References: Карпущенко В. М. Проспект Стачек. Л.,1978.

O. A. Chekanova. Dashkova Ekaterina Romanovna, Duchess
Gegello Alexander Ivanovich
Kamensky Valentin Alexandrovich
Krestin Alexander Vasilievich
Nikolsky Alexander Sergeevich
Simonov Grigory Alexandrovich
Sivers Karl Efimovich
the Naryshkins
Trotsky Noy Abramovich
Vetyutnev G.F.
Kirovskaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Marshala Zhukova Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Petergofskoe Freeway/Saint Petersburg, city
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 31
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 158
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 36
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 34
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 30
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 28
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 26
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 134
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 132
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 45
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 33
Traktornaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Trefoleva St./Saint Petersburg, city
Turbinnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Карпущенко В.М. Проспект Стачек. Л., 1978 Kirovsky Plant
1935