Obvodny Canal

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OBVODNY CANAL flows from the Neva River in the area of Alexander Nevsky Lavra to the Ekaterinhofka River (8.08 km long, 21.3 meters wide and 42.6 meters wide in its eastern part). Two rivers flow into the Obvodny Canal: the Monastyrka River (to the right) and the Volkovka River (to the left). The Obvodny Canal with a defence wall was constructed from the Ekaterinhofka River to the Ligovsky Canal under the project of engineer Lev Carbonnier in 1769-80. In 1805, engineer Ivan Gerard started building the eastern part of the Obvodny Canal, deepening and extending the old bed. The works were continued under the guidance of engineers Peter Bazen and Benoit Clapeyron in 1816-33. The Obvodny Canal marked the southern border of the city. The navigation of the whole route was opened in 1835. In the second half of the 19th century, the Obvodny Canal was actually turned into an open sewer collecting waste water of adjacent enterprises. The Obvodny Canal is spanned with 19 city and 2 railway bridges. The Obvodny Canal embankments belong to the main city's thoroughfares and are an important part of the city's industrial zone. They are dominated with industrial and transport buildings. The monuments of classical architecture include the Theology Academy (No 7, 1817-21, architect Luigi Rusca), and Izmailov provision warehouses (No 169-173, 1819-21, architect Vasily Stasov). The complex of the Cossack Life Guards Regiment Barracks (No 23-39, architects Gemilian A.P. and Ivan Chernik) was constructed in 1840s, and the former mansion of Timofey Dylev (No 155, architect Avgust Lange) was built in 1849. Among the buildings constructed in the second part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century are the Gasworks of the Capital Lighting Society (today, Komposit Factory); the former coke gasworks (No 72-74); Baltic Railway Station; Warsaw Railway Station; the buildings of Russian-American Rubber Manufacturing (No 134-140, today, the Krasny Treugolnik); Holy Resurrection Church (No 116); The House of Enlightenment Organizations in the memory of February 19, 1861 (No 181, 1912, architect Nikolay Dmitriev, today, the recreation centre is named after Alexander Tsyurupa); et al. In 1930s, the Obvodny Canal was cleaned and deepened (architect Konstantin Dmitriev, engineer I.B. Tarasenko). The concrete embankment between Baltic Railway Station and Gaza Avenue was constructed and the building of main embankments and bridges was completed in 1960s. The following buildings and organizations are located on the Obvodny Canal Embankments: Bus Terminal No 2 (No 36), Ligovsky Textile Joint-stock Company (No 60-62, formerly, the factory named after Peter Anisimov), Lenenergo Heat Station No 1 (No 76), the Handling Equipment Factory (No 118), the Sovetskaya Zvezda Spinning Factory (No 158), the Vereteno Factory (No 223-225, formerly, a Cotton Mill Factory) and other industrial enterprises; project institutions Lingiproneftechim (No 94/1), Lenaeroproject (No 122), the House of Culture and Technology named after Karl Marx (No 114, today, the Oktyabrskaya Railway Museum); and Neptun Business Centre (N 93a). On July 15, 1904, a socialist revolutionary Egor Sozonov exploded a bomb at No 163 of the Obvodny Canal Embankment and killed the Minister of Internal Affairs Vyacheslav Pleve.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Anisimov Peter Anisimovich (pseudonym Moiseenko)
Bazen Peter Petrovich
Carbonnier Lev Lvovich
Chernik Ivan Denisovich
Clapeyron Benoit Paul Emile
Dmitriev Konstantin Mikhailovich
Dmitriev Nikolay Vsevolodovich
Dylev Timofey Petrovich
Gemilian A.P.
Gerard Ivan (Johann Konrad) Kondratievich
Lange Avgust (Augusto) Ivanovich
Marx Karl
Pleve Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von
Rusca Luigi (Aloisy Ivanovich)
Sozonov Egor Sergeevich
Stasov Vasily Petrovich
Tarasenko I.B.
Tsyurupa Alexander Dmitrievich
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