Suvorovsky Avenue

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SUVOROVSKY AVENUE, from Nevsky Prospect to Proletarskoy Diktatury Square. The avenue was laid in the mid-18th century. It ran from the Elephant Yard (a menagerie) which used to occupy the site of the present-day Oktyabrskaya Hotel. The section of the road between present-day Second Sovetskaya Street and Ninth Sovetskaya Street was called Slonovaya Street, and the length of the avenue extending from present-day Ninth Sovetskaya Street to the Smolny Institute was named Konnogvardeyskaya Street, after a settlement of Lifeguards Cavalry Regiment (for a while it bore the name Peschanaya Street, after the locality of Peski). In 1880 both streets were merged into one, called Slonovaya Street. In 1900 the thoroughfare was connected to Nevsky Prospect and renamed as Suvorovsky Avenue. On the occasion of the centenary of A.V. Suvorov's death the building of the Academy of the General Staff (house No. 32; 1900-01, architect A.I. von Gogen, engineer A.A. Vedepyanin) came to house a temporary museum of the military leader, moved in 1904 to a building specially built for that purpose (see Suvorov Memorial Museum). From 1923 to 1944 the road was called Sovetsky Avenue, since it ran to Smolny, where Petrograd (Leningrad) Soviet was quartered. At the same time Rozhdestvenskie Streets which crossed the avenue were named Sovetskie Streets. Most of the buildings of Suvorovsky Avenue pertain to the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. House No. 4 (1870s, architect A.O. Tomishko) accommodated the College for Doctor's Assistants and Fully-Trained Nurses established in 1872. At the present time residential houses Nos. 12 (1934-37, architects А. А. Ol, E.I. Kholmogorov, D.N. Navalishin) and 52 belong to the Academy of Light Industry (1934-37, architects P.V. Abrosimov, A.P. Velikanov, L.M. Polyakov, A.F. Khryakov). Suvorovsky Avenue suffered severe damage due to the bombardments during the siege of 1941-44. The site of the destroyed buildings was taken by houses Nos. 15, 17 (1950-52, architects Fomin, M.K. Benois) and 56 (1954, architects G.A. Alexandrov, S.B. Speransky, I.I. Fomin). In 1881, composer M.P. Mussorgsky passed away in Nikolaevsky Military Hospital (house No. 63, 1835-40, architect A.E. Shtaubert; now Z.P. Solovyev District Military Memorial Clinic).

References: Бурмистров А. А. Суворовский проспект // БА. 1969. № 8. С. 38-47.

A. A. Alexeev. Abrosimov Pavel Vasilievich
Alexandrovich Georgy Ivanovich
Benois Mikhail Konstantinovich
Fomin Igor Ivanovich
Gogen Alexander Ivanovich von
Kholmogorov E.I.
Khryakov Alexander Fedorovich
Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich
Navalishin D.N.
Ol Andrey Andreevich
Polyakov Leonid Mikhailovich
Shtaubert Alexander Egorovich
Solovyev Zinovy Petrovich
Speransky Sergey Borisovich
Suvorov Alexander Arkadievich, Count
Tomishko (Tomishka) Antony Osipovich (Iosifovich)
Vedenyapin Alexander Alexeevich
Velikanov Alexander Petrovich
9th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city
Proletarskoy Diktatury Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 12
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 52
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 63
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Suvorovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 56
Бурмистров А. А. Суворовский проспект // Блокнот агитатора, 1969 Pribaltiiskaya Hotel
Smolny Institute
Suvorov Memorial Museum