Toreza Avenue

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TOREZA AVENUE, called Staro-Pargolovsky Avenue until 1964, from Muzhestva Square to the intersection of Engelsa Avenue and Severny Avenue. The avenue was laid in the 18th century and led towards Pargolovo (hence the original name). It was given its present-day name in commemoration of M. Thorez, a French communist leader (1900-64). Until the 1960s, the development of the avenue consisted of wooden and stone buildings comprising of one or two stories. Some buildings pertaining to the early 20th century can still be found here: house No. 8, the former mansion of D.A. Kotlov (1913-14, civil engineer N.I. Tovstoles), as well as houses Nos. 29, 65 and 89. In 1963, Toreza Avenue started to be built over with multi-storied residential-houses with the preservation of the existing landscape (the project was directed by architect V.F. Belov). In the 1980s, houses Nos. 35-39 were built for the members of the Academy of Sciences (architects N.I. Apostol, V.M. Tverye). Part of Toreza Avenue runs along the park of Sosnovka. Toreza Avenue accommodates I.M. Sechenov Scientific Research Institute for Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry (house No. 44). Next to the institute, a bust of L.A. Orbeli was set up in 1969 (sculptor D.M. Epifanov, architect L.L. Schreter). House No. 64 represents one of the buildings of Svetlana open joint-stock corporation company (the 1960s, architects G.V. Kostyurin, R.K. Dineyka, engineer A.D. Nelipa; the flank side of the building has the artistic composition Electronics, 1978, sculptor V.G. Kozenyuk). 68 Toreza Avenue is the address for the Electron Scientific Research Institute, while house No. 72 is the Clinical Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1976-77, architects I.A. Fabritsky et al.).

References: Кузнецов А. И. Район-сад на Выборгской стороне: Застройка проспектов Тореза и Шверника // СиАЛ. 1973. № 5. С. 2-6; Лисовский В. Г. Ленинград: Р-ны новостроек. Л., 1983. С. 234-236.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Apostol Nikolay Illarionovich
Belov Viktor Fedorovich
Dineika R.K.
Epifanov Dmitry Mikhailovich
Fabritsky Bentsion Bentsionovich
Kostyurin G.V.
Kotlov D.A.
Kozenyuk Valentin Grigorievich
Nelipa A.D.
Orbeli Leon (Levon) Abgarovich
Schreter Login Ludwigovich
Sechenov Ivan Mikhailovich
Tovstoles Nikolay Ivanovich
Tverie V.M.
Engelsa Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Muzhestva Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Severny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 29
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 35
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 89
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 39
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 37
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 65
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 72
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 68
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 64
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 44
Thorez Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Кузнецов А. И. Район-сад на Выборгской стороне: Застройка пр. Тореза и Шверника // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1973
Лисовский В. Г. Ленинград: Р-ны новостроек. Л., 1983 Sechenov Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Svetlana Factory