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Academic Gymnasium
ACADEMIC GYMNASIUM, the first general secondary education institution in Russia. It was founded as a part of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1724 and opened in January 1726 to provide training to boys coming from various free social classes
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Birzhevaya Square
BIRZHEVAYA SQUARE, translated as Exchange Square, in 1937-89 - Pushkinskaya Square. The square lies on the spit of Vasilievsky Island between Universitetskaya Embankment and Makarova Embankment
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Exchanges
EXCHANGES, regular wholesale markets where goods or securities are sold are called commodity exchanges and stock exchanges, respectively. The first Russian exchange, which remained the only exchange till the late 18th century
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Lines of Vasilievsky Island (entry)
LINES Of VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, the historical name of a number of parallel streets that intersect Vasilievsky Island from the south to the north: First to Twenty-Ninth Lines, Birzhevaya Line, Kozhevennaya Line, Kosaya Line, Mendeleevskaya Line
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Makarov S.O. (1848-1904), oceanographer, vice-admiral
MAKAROV Stepan Osipovich (1848-1904), fleet commander, naval scientist, Vice-Admiral (1896). Graduated from Naval School in Nikolaevsk- Na-Amure (1865). Served on the Baltic Fleet from 1869
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Makarova Embankment
MAKAROVA EMBANKMENT (until 1887 - Malaya Neva River Embankment, until 1952 - Tuchkova Embankment), between Birzhevaya Square and Smolenka River Embankment, on Vasilievsky Island, on the left bank of the Malaya Neva. The embankment was named after S
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Malaya Neva
MALAYA NEVA, the second largest (after Bolshaya Neva) branch of the Neva river delta. The Malaya Neva separates from the Neva near the Spit of Vasilievsky Island and flows into the Neva Bay between Dekabristov Island and Petrovsky Island
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Maly Avenue of Vasilievsky Island
MALY AVENUE Of VASILIEVSKY ISLAND [in the 1730-70s - Third Prospektivaya Street, in the 1780-1800s - Malaya Prospektiva, in 1939-44 - Zheleznyakova Avenue, after the participant of October Revolution and Civil War A.G
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May's Gymnasium
MAY'S GYMNASIUM, men's private high school founded by teacher K. I. May (1824-1895) as a classical school in 1856 and reorganised into a gymnasium in 1865. It had a actual department opened in 1868 and transformed into a Real school (which along
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Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island
SREDNY AVENUE OF VASILIEVSKY ISLAND (called Malaya Pershpektiva from the 1730s until the 1770s, known as Mussorgskogo Avenue in 1939-44), from Makarova Embankment to Nalichnaya Street
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Vasileostrovsky District
VASILEOSTROVSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 55 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island) Its present-day borders were formed in 1917 (the western part was a separate
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