Kalinina Square

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KALININA SQUARE, at the intersection of Kondratyevsky Avenue and Polyustrovsky Avenue. The square was named in 1955 after M.I. Kalinin, who is also commemorated by a monument in the centre of the square (1955). The square started to be built in the late 1920s. In 1933-36, the Kalininsky Department Store was constructed on the square, and is part of the Kondratyevsky Housing Estate (47 Polyustrovsky Avenue; architects G.A. Simonov, L.M. Tverskoy et al.). In 1936, the Gigant (Giant) Cinema, which is now a night club called Gigant-Hall (Giant-Hall), was opened on the square's northern side. The square was augmented by two five-story residential houses (31 and 42 Polyustrovsky Avenue; the 1950s, architects A.K. Barutchev, L.N. Lindrot, N.I. Ioffe). In the early 1980s, the S.A. Zverev Physico-Mathematical Engineering College was built there.

References: Бартенев И. А. Современная архитектура Ленинграда. Л., 1966. С. 104, 106. G.Y. NIkitenko. Barutchev Armen Konstantinovich
Ioffe Naum Isaevich
Kalinin Mikhail Ivanovich
Lindrot Lev Nikolaevich
Simonov Grigory Alexandrovich
Tverskoy Lev Mikhailovich
Zverev S.A.
Kalinina Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Kondratevsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Polyustrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
Polyustrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Polyustrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 42
Polyustrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 31
Бартенев И. А. Современная архитектура Ленинграда. Л., 1966 1936