Zhdanovskaya Street and Embankment

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ZHDANOVSKAYA EMBANKMENT, running from Bolshoy Avenue of the Petrogradskaya Side to Novoladozhskaya Street. The embankment was formed in the 18th century as a passage along the right bank of the Zhdanovka River, which received its name in the late 18th century from the Zhdanov clerk assistants, who owned a house near the St. Prince Vladimir Cathedral. In the first quarter of the 18th century, the site of houses Nos. 43 and 45 comprised of the I.T. Pososhkov Estate. Later, the Zhdanovskaya Embankment was developed for the use of the Second Cadet Corps (house No. 11-15; presently its buildings accommodate the A.F. Mozhaysky Military Space Engineering University). At the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries, the Zhdanovskaya Embankment was built up with residential houses, including house No. 1/2 (1898-1900, architect V.I. Barankeev), house No. 9 (1903, architect I.A. Styunkel), house No. 3/1 (1911-13, architect I.I. Demichelli), and an orphanage at house No. 21 (1905-06, architect R.R. Marfeld). In the 1950s, a monumental house was erected on the embankment at No. 11. In the 1920s, its yard accommodated the workshop of engineer M.S. Los, which was portrayed in A.N. Tolstoy's novel Aelita. House No. 13 was constructed in 1795-1803 (architect F.I. Demertsov), and house No. 15 (former Exercirhaus of the Cadet Corps) was built in 1819-20 (architect L. Rusca). In the 1970s-80s, the former Malo-Petrovsky Park was replaced by an indoor ice stadium (architect A.I. Pribulsky), which was erected for the training of SKA (Army Sports Club) hockey players. Past residents of the Zhdanovskaya Embankment include critic and writer N.G. Chernyshevsky (house No. 7, 1853-54; A.N. Pypin, his cousin, also resided there), writer A.N. Tolstoy (house No. 3, 1925-28), and poet F. Sologub (house No. 3, the 1920s). The Zhdanovskaya Embankment is connected to Petrovsky Island by the Krasnogo Kursanta Bridge.

References: Ефремов Г. Ждановские набережная и улица // БА. 1978. № 16. С. 36-43; Исаченко В. Г. По малым рекам и каналам Санкт-Петербурга. СПб., 2001.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Barankeev Vasily Ivanovich
Chernyshevsky Nikolay Gavrilovich
Demertsov Fedor Ivanovich
Demichelli Iosif Ivanovich
Los M.S.
Marfeld Robert Robertovich
Mozhaysky Alexander Fedorovich
Pososhkov Ivan Tikhonovich
Pribulsky Anatoly Isaakovich
Pypin Alexander Nikolaevich
Rusca Luigi (Aloisy Ivanovich)
Sologub Fedor (real name Teternikov Fedor Kuzmich)
Styunkel Albert Ivanovich
the Zhdanovs
Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich
Bolshoy Ave of Petrograskaya Storona/Saint Petersburg, city
Novoladozhskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 43
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 45
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/2
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3/1
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Zhdanovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Ефремов Г. Ждановские набережная и улица // Блокнот агитатора, 1978
Исаченко В. Г. По малым рекам и каналам Санкт-Петербурга. СПб., 2001 Cathedral of Prince St. Vladimir
Mozhaysky Military Space Engineering Academy