Grafsky Lane

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GRAFSKY LANE, running from Fontanka River Embankment to Vladimirsky Avenue. Called Golovin Lane from 1739 to the late 18th century; in 1923 it assumed the name Proletarsky Lane, and, in 1964, was renamed Marii Ulyanovoy Street (in honour of M.I. Ulyanova, a sister of V.I. Lenin), bearing this name until 1991. The street was laid in the 1730s along the manor estate of Count N.F. Golovin, the president of the Admiralty Collegium (hence the lane's original name and its present-day form, "Graf" meaning "Count" in Russian). The present-day look of the lane comes from the 19th-20th centuries; the left part of house No. 10 was built in 1900 (civil engineer I.Y. Moshinsky), a school building was erected in 1938 (house No. 1, architect D.D. Libedinsky), and house No. 8 was built in 1950 (architect B.I. Zhuravlev). In 1998, a monument to Polish poet A. Mickiewicz (sculptor G.D. Yastrebenetsky, architect S.P. Odnovalov) was erected near house No. 8.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Golovin Nikolay Fedorovich, Count
Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
Libedinsky Dmitry Dmitrievich
Mickiewicz Adam
Moshinsky Iosif Yulianovich
Odnovalov Stanislav Pavlovich
Ulyanova Maria Ilyinichna
Yastrebenetsky Grigory Danilovich
Zhuravlev Boris Nikolaevich
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Grafsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Grafsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Grafsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Grafsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Vladimirsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city