Sobering-up Stations

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SOBERING-UP STATIONS. In Autumn 1936 collection of the drunk in the streets by special brigades of militia driving in cars supplied with special equipment became a usual practice in Leningrad. In December 1936 alone some 742 people were collected, of which 141 were delivered home. The first sobering-up station was opened at 79 Marata Street. In 1940, sobering-up stations were transferred from the jurisdiction of People's Commissariat of Health into the system of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. The first medical sobering-up station opened on April 20, 1949 in Petrogradsky District (16 Skorokhodova Street). In 1977 it was moved to 20 Skorokhodova Street (today Bolshaya Monetnaya Street). (Its present capacity is 40 beds). Since the autumn of 1963, a female medical sobering-up station with 5-10 beds has been functioning at 7b Drovyanaya Street. In 2002, there were 22 medical sobering-up stations subordinated to the city and district organs of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg.

E. P. Bogoslovskaya. Bolshaya Monetnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Bolshaya Monetnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Drovyanaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7, litera л. Б
Marata St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 79