Solyanoy Settlement

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SOLYANOY (SALT) SETTLEMENT, a complex of buildings in the central part of St. Petersburg on the ground between Fontanka River Embankment, Solyanoy Lane, Pestelya Street and Gangutskaya Street. From the 1710s, there was a private dockyard, from the 1780s - salt and wine storehouses constructed by architect F.I. Volkov (hence the name). From the dockyard complex the building of St. Panteleimon’s Church has survived. At the end of the 1860s, the buildings of the Solyanoy Settlement were altered for the All-Russian Industrial Exhibition of 1870. Then they housed Russia's largest cultural and educational centre that comprised of the Museum of Applied Knowledge and Pavilions of the Russian Technical Society (nowadays 2 Pestelya Street), the Agricultural Museum (nowadays 1 Gangutskaya Street; 1876-1879, architect I.S. Kitner, engineer O.E. Krell, S.B. Lukashevich), the Handicraft Museum (9 Solyanoy Lane; 1901-03, architect P.P. Trifanov). The eastern building was replaced by buildings of the Central School for Technical Drawing of Baron Stieglitz (13 Solyanoy Lane; 1878-81, architects A.I. Krakau, R.A. Gedike; currently the Mukhina Art Industrial Academy) and Museum of Decorative Applied Art (15 Solyanoy Lane; 1885-1896, architect M.E. Messmacher). Until October 1917, in Solyanoy Settlement, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, etc. were organised. In 1946-1952, the Museum of the Defence of Leningrad was located (2 Pestelya Street), which was recreated in 1989 as the Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad.

References: Исаченко В. Г., Питанин В. Н. Возродить музейный комплекс // ЛП. 1990. № 8. С. 13-14; Куферштейн Е. З. Соляной городок // Петербургские чтения, 98-99. СПб., 1999. С. 81-83.

B. М. Kirikov. Gedike Robert Andreevich
Kitner Ieronim Sevastianovich
Krakau Georg Alexander (Alexander Ivanovich)
Krell Otton Egorovich
Lukashevich S.B.
Messmacher Maximilian Egorovich
Mukhina Vera Ignatievna
Stieglitz Alexander Ludwigovich, Baron
Trifanov Peter Pavlovich
Volkov Fedor Ivanovich
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Gangutskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Gangutskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Pestelya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Pestelya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Solyanoy Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Solyanoy Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Solyanoy Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Solyanoy Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Исаченко В. Г., Питанин В. Н. Возродить музейный комплекс // Ленингр. панорама, 1990
Куферштейн Е. З. Соляной городок // Петербургские чтения, 98 - 99. СПб., 1999 Particulyarnaya Shipyard
St. Panteleimon Church
Leningrad Defence and Blockade Museum
1944
1989