Smolnaya Embankment

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SMOLNAYA EMBANKMENT, from Smolny Avenue to Robespierre Embankment. It received its name in 1887 after Smolny Cathedral (see Cathedral of the Renewal of the Jerusalem Holy Resurrection Temple). The thoroughfare and embankment were built in 1996-2000 and launched in 2001, which makes this embankment the youngest of the Neva embankments. The building of the former Alexandrovsky Institute (1765-75, architect Y.M. Velten, rebuilt in 1821-24, architect D. Quadri) overlooks the embankment, together with the garden enclosed by a fence (the 1760s-70s; the fence was used as a pattern for performing the present-day fencing of the constructions on Smolnaya Embankment in 2001).

References: Орлов И. Б. Раскрывая систему ансамблей // СиАЛ. 1980. № 5. С. 20-23. G.Y. NIkitenko. Felten Yury (Georg Friedrich) Matveevich
Quadri Domenico
Robespierre Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Smolnaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Smolny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Орлов И. Б. Раскрывая систему ансамблей // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1980 Cathedral of the Renewal of the Jerusalem Holy Resurrection Temple
2001