Pryazhka, river

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PRYAZHKA, a river, flowing from the Moika River into Salnobuyansky Canal and on into the Neva River. The river is 1.32 kilometres long. Banny Bridge, Matisov Bridge and Berdov Bridge were span Pryazhka River. The name of the river is associated with the spinning workshops, transferred at Kolomna from the area of the Main Admiralty in the 1730s. The settlement, where artisans and workmen lived, was moved to the same location. From the late 18th century, the banks of the Pryazhka were built up with residential houses and buildings pertaining to K.N. Bird"s factory. House No. 48 (1832) and house No. 50 (1838) are architectural monuments of late classicism. In 1897, the building of A.A. Ilyin"s Mapping Establishment was built (the house No. 5, architect I.I. Shaposhnikov). At the turn of the 19th-20th centuries a number of multi-storied apartment houses were constructed: house No. 66 (1898, architect V.F. Rozinsky), house No. 34B (1904-05, architect A.G. Uspensky), house No. 40 (1910-11, architects V.V. Fridlein et al.). House No. 50 was occupied by stonemason S.K. Sukhanov. A.A. Blok lived in the house at the corner of former Ofitserskaya Street (now 57 Dekabristov Street) and Pryazhka River Embankment from 1912 to his death in 192. In 1980, the flat was turned into the poet"s Memorial Flat. Poet I.F. Annensky lived in the same house from 1874 to 1879, as did singer I.V. Ershov from 1916 to 1925. Pryazhka River Embankment accommodates St. Nicholas Psychiatric Hospital (126 Moika River Embankment), Foil-Rolling Works (1 Perevoznaya Street) and Levsha hunting arms company (house No. 32).

References: Исаченко В. Г. По малым рекам и каналам Санкт-Петербурга. СПб., 2001. С. 175-193.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich
Bird Karl (Charles) Nikolaevich
Blok G.P.
Ershov Ivan Vasilievich
Fridlein Vadimir Vasilievich
Ilyin Alexey Afinogenovich
Rozinsky Vasily Fedorovich
Shaposhnikov Ivan Ivanovich
Sukhanov Samson Xenofontovich
Uspensky Alexander Glebovich
Dekabristov St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 57
Moika River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 126
Perevoznaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Pryazhka River/Saint Petersburg, city
Pryazhka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Pryazhka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 48
Pryazhka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 50
Pryazhka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Pryazhka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Pryazhka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Pryazhka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 34, litera л. Б
Pryazhka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 66
Исаченко В. Г. По малым рекам и каналам Санкт-Петербурга. СПб., 2001 Blok's Memorial Flat
St. Nicholas Psychiatric Hospital
Foil Rolling Plant