Sverdlovskaya Embankment

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SVERDLOVSKAYA EMBANKMENT (in 1887-1925 - Polyustrovskaya Embankment, after the area of Polyustrovo), on the right bank of the Neva River, between Arsenalnaya Street and Krasnogvardeiskaya Square. It was named after Y.M. Sverdlov. Until 1958, the section of Sverdlovskaya Embankment from Piskarevsky Avenue up to Bolshaya Porokhovskaya Street formed a part of Bolsheokhtinsky Avenue. From the first quarter of the 18th century, the street was built up with country estates. In the 1770-80s, the manor of the Kushelev-Bezborodko family (building 40), in front of a granite quay with sphinxes (late 18th century) and the fence with 29 cast iron lions (the middle of the 19th century) were arranged. In the 1780s, the summer residence of Durnovo (building 22) was built. In the middle of the 19th century, country estates were plotted out and sold to raise capital for industrial construction: in 1857, a metal plant was founded (building 18, its production building, constructed in the 1970s by architects A.V. Vasilyev, B.I. Kozyrev and V.G. Filippov, dominates the surroundings of Sverdlovskaya Embankment) and the plant of Rosenkranz was constructed (building 12, since 1922 - Krasny Vyborzhets). In the second half of the 19th century, there was a railway station of Irinovskaya railway road opposite modern building 62. In 1926, the monument to V.I. Lenin was unveiled. In 1970, the reconstruction of Sverdlovskaya Embankment was launched: to the south, opposite Smolny, a broad staircase slope was built. In 1969-71, a complex of 9-12-storied buildings was designed by architects A. V. Vasilyev, A.I. Kozulin, et al., who made use of the level difference from Sverdlovskaya Embankment towards the Neva bank. Sverdlovskaya Embankment features the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation (building 64) and the Yubilei Department Store (building 60).

Reference: Шаврова Н. Свердловская набережная // БА. 1970. № 29. С. 39-48; Лисовский В. Г. Ленинград: Р-ны новостроек. Л., 1983. С. 194-195.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Durnovo Peter Pavlovich
Filippov Vladimir Gavrilovich
Kozulin А.I.
Kozyrev B.I.
Kushelev-Bezborodko Alexander Andreevich, Gracious Prince
Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
Rosenkranz Ernst Eduard
Sverdlov Yakov Mikhailovich
Vasilyev Alexander Viktorovich
Arsenalnaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Bolshaya Porokhovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Bolsheokhtinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Krasnogvardeiskaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Piskarevsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 60
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 62
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 64
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 12
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Sverdlovskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Лисовский В. Г. Ленинград: Р-ны новостроек. Л., 1983
Шаврова Н. Свердловская набережная // Блокнот агитатора, 1970 Krasny Vyborzhets, Plant