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Troitsky Avenue
TROITSKY AVENUE, from Izmaylovsky Avenue to Lermontovsky Avenue; the avenue is the extension of First Krasnoarmeyskaya Street. In the late 18th century, the avenue was known as First Street, called Troitskaya Street from the 1830s (Troitsky Avenue)
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Troitsky Bridge
TROITSKY BRIDGE (Trinity Bridge; in 1918-34 Ravenstva Bridge, in 1934-99 Kirovsky Bridge), across the Bolshaya Neva River, connecting Suvorova Square with Troitskaya Square (hence, the name) and Kamennoostrovsky Avenue
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Troitsky Island
TROITSKY ISLAND (Trinity Island) used to bear the name Petrogradsky Island, along with the name of Gorodskoy Island in the first third of the 18th century. After, it was renamed after the Holy Trinity and St. Peter's Cathedral.
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Trolleybus
TROLLEYBUS, one of the principal means of the mass passenger city transport. The first tests of an electrical wire-operated car in Russia were conducted by engineer S.I. Schulenburg in 1902 in St. Petersburg at Froeze and C° plant
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Trolleybus depots
TROLLEYBUS DEPOTS, enterprises providing special facilities and equipment for parking, maintenance and repair services of trolleybuses. The first trolleybuses were accommodated in the depot of Smirnov Tram Depot (3 Degtyarny Lane) since 1936
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Trotsky L.D. (1879-1940), a revolutionary, chairman of Petrograd Soviet in 1917
TROTSKY (born Bronstein) Lev Davidovich (1879-1940), a political figure. After graduating from applied training school in Nikolaev (1896) he entered Novorossiisk University (Odessa) non-credit, but soon left it
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Trotsky N.A. (1895-1940), arhcitect.
TROTSKY Noy Abramovich (1895, St. Petersburg 1940, Leningrad), architect. Graduated from the Petrograd State Arts Courses (1921). Author of the bid for the crematorium project in Petrograd (1919, not carried out)
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Trubetskoy Bastion
TRUBETSKOY BASTION, one of 6 bastions of Peter and Paul Fortress, situated in its south-western part. The bastion was built in 1703, of earth and wood under the supervision of prince Y.Y
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Trubetskoy P.P., (1866-1938), sculptor
TRUBETSKOY Pavel (Paolo) Petrovich (1866-1938), Prince, sculptor. Lived originally in Italy, where he studied mainly on his own. Between 1897 and 1906 he lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and after 1906 in France, USA, and Italy. He visited St
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Truda Square
TRUDA SQUARE, known as Blagoveshchenskaya Street from the 1830s to the 1880s, then called Blagoveshchenskaya Square until 1918. The square is surrounded by Angliiskaya Embankment, Konnogvardeysky Boulevard
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Trudolyubivaya Pchela (Industrious Bee), journal
TRUDOLYUBIVAYA PCHELA (Industrious Bee), a monthly literary journal. Appeared in 1759 printing 12 issues, and was published by its leading author A. P. Sumarokov
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Truten (The Drone), journal
TRUTEN (The Drone), a literary weekly, published by N. I. Novikov in 1769-70. The Тruten was a response to Catherine II's call in the Vsyakaya Vsyachina journal to establish Russian satiric journalism
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Tsarskoe Selo, palace and park ensemble
TSARSKOE SELO (Pushkin town), a monument of town-planning and a palace and park ensemble dating from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. The core of the ensemble is the estate of Empress Catherine I Sarskaya Myza (founded in 1710)
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Tsarskoe Selo, Park Museum
TSARSKOE SELO, park museum in the Pushkin town. Established in 1992. Includes palace and park built in the 18th-19th centuries, which were transformed into a museum in March 1918
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Tsarskoselskaya Railway
TSARSKOSELSKAYA RAILWAY is the first Russian railway (until 1851 - the only in the country, the 6th in the world), running between St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo
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Tsentralny (Central) District
TSENTRALNY (CENTRAL) DISTRICT, an administrative-territorial entity within St. Petersburg, with the territorial administration situated at 176 Nevsky Prospect. The district was set up in 1994, when Smolninsky District
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Tsereteli I.G. (1881-1959), political figure
TSERETELI Irakly Georgievich (1881-1959), statesman, public and political figure. After graduating from Tiflis Gymnasium (1900) he entered the School of Law of Moscow University, in 1902
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Tsoy Viktor Robertovich (1962-1990), rock musician
TSOY Viktor Robertovich (1962, Leningrad 1990), rock musician, frontman of rock group Kino. Graduated from Technical College No. 61 (1982), worked first in the parks and gardens department, and from 1985 in a boiler-house called Kamchatka
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Tsylov N.I. (1799 or 1801-1879), Cartographer
TSYLOV Nikolay Ivanovich (1799, Peterhof - 1879, St. Petersburg) cartographer and topographer, Major-General (1860). Tsylov graduated from the First Cadets Corps in St. Petersburg in 1817. Served in the Caucasus in 1817-20
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Tuchkov Bridge
TUCHKOV BRIDGE (Tyuchkov; Nikolsky), across the Malaya Neva River. The bridge connects the First Line of Vasilievsky Island and Bolshoy Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side
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Tuchkov Buyan
TUCHKOV BUYAN (1a Bolshoy Avenue of the Petrogradskaya Side), an architectural monument in the style of Early Classicism, consisting of a set of hemp storehouses, which include three stone structures
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Tukhachevsky M.N. (1893-1937), military commander, marshal
TUKHACHEVSKY Mikhail Nikolaevich (1893-1937), Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1935). Tukhachevsky graduated from the 1st Moskovsky Cadet School (1911), and Alexandrovsky Military School (1914)
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Tur A. F., (1894-1974), paediatrician
TUR Alexander Fedorovich (1894-1974, Leningrad), paediatrician, Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1952). The main work of Tur was related to the Institute of Motherhood and Infancy (now the Paediatric Medical Academy)
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Turaev B.A., (1868-1920), orientalist
TURAEV Boris Alexandrovich (1868-1920, Petrograd), orientalist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1918). He came to St. Petersburg in 1886. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at St
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Turgenev I.S. (1818-1883), writer
TURGENEV Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883), writer, associate of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1860). In 1834 he transferred from the University of Moscow to the Philological Department of the Faculty of Philosophy of Petersburg University
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Turgeneva Square
TURGENEVA SQUARE, Pokrovskaya Square until 1923, at the intersection of Sadovaya Street (the numeration of the buildings on the square follows the numerical order set on Sadovaya Street) and Angliisky Avenue; the square is the centre of Kolomna area
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Turner H. I., (1858 - 1941), surgeon, orthopaedist
TURNER Henrich Ivanovich (1858, St. Petersburg - 1941, Leningrad), surgeon, orthopaedist, Doctor of Medicine (1894). He graduated from the Medical Surgical Academy (1881)
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Turukhtannye Islands
TURUKHTANNYE ISLANDS, an area to the south-west of St. Petersburg, in the zone of the coal harbour of the seaport. The name comes from waterlogged islands that existed on this site before the 1930s, but merged with the mainland
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Tverskaya Street
TVERSKAYA STREET, called Ofitserskaya Street from the 1770s to 1859, from Tavricheskaya Street to Proletarskoy Diktatury Square. It was renamed in honour of one of the cities of central Russia, Tver, as a number of other streets in this district
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Tverskoy L. M. (1889-1972), architect
TVERSKOY Lev Mikhailovich (1889-1972, Leningrad), architect, architecture theorist. Graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineering (1914) and the Academy of Arts (1923). Since 1919, worked in the city of Petrograd adjustment plan workshop of I.A
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