Oktyabrskaya Embankment

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OKTYABRSKAYA EMBANKMENT translated as October Embankment and known as Pravogo Berega Nevy Embankment before 1973. It runs between Zolnaya Street and Novosaratovka Settlement and crosses a number of settlements such as Klochki, Malaya Arkhiereyskaya Sloboda, Vesely Poselok, Malaya Rybatskaya, Sosnovka, Utkina Zavod, and Rusanovka. It was named in honour of the 56th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. The Hostel of Alexander Nevsky Lavra was opened at number 18-22 in 1820. Among the buildings erected on the embankment in 1840s were Vargunin and Gobert's Stationery Factory now known as Bumaga Factory at number 54 and the factory of the Thornton Brothers now known as Nevskaya Manufaktura at number 50. Workers' camp was built by architects V. A. Alvang and G. D. Grimm in 1933. On the embankment there is also Kinoveevskoe Cemetery situated at number 16a, Pigment Works at number 38, St. Petersburg River Port at number 40, Reaktiv Company at number 44, and Krasny Oktyabr Cogeneration Plant No. 5 at number 108. The embankment was reconstructed in 2003.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Alvang Viktor Alexandrovich
Gobbert J.
Grimm German Davidovich
Thornton
Vargunin Alexander Ivanovich
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 44
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 54
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 108
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 38
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 16, litera л. А
Oktyabrskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 50
Zolnaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city
Веселый Поселок
Ленинград: Путеводитель / Сост. А. Е. Сукновалов. Л., 1977 Nevskaya Manufaktura, Factory