ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SAINT PETERSBURG

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Capital // Personalia //

Nabokov Family

NABOKOV Family, noble family, known since the mid 17th century. Several family members are closely associated with St. Petersburg. Ivan Alexandrovich Nabokov (1787-1852, St Petersburg), Infantry General (1835), Adjutant General (1844). Graduated from the Pages Corps (1806). In 1848-52, he was a member of the Military Council and Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Buried at the Commandant Cemetery.

Science. Education // Museums //
Nabokov Museum NABOKOV MUSEUM, St Petersburg (47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street). The museum was established in 1993 on the initiative of the Nabokov Foundation. It was incorporated as a private museum and got its present-day name in 1998. The museum is located in the house where V. V. Nabokov was born and lived together with his parents until 15 November, 1917.

Literature. Book Publishing // Personalia //

Nabokov V.V. (1899-1977), writer

NABOKOV Vladimir Vladimirovich (1899, St. Petersburg - 1977), poet, prose writer, playwright, translator, literary critic. The son of V.D. Nabokov (see the Nabokov Family). The childhood of Nabokov passed in the Anglicised setting of a Petersburg aristocratic family (he was born in the house at 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street, memorial plaque; from 1993 the museum of Nabokov V.V.).

Sports // Personalia //
Press. Mass Media // Personalia //

Nabutov V. S.(1917-73), sports commentator

NABUTOV Viktor Sergeevich (1917-1973), sportsman, radio and television commentator, master of sports (1934). In 1947 he graduated from the Leningrad Electro-Technical Institute however from 1936 he was already playing for the Dinamo football team as goalkeeper, and from 1938 until 1939 for Elektrik (Krasnaya Zarya), in 1938 qualifying for the finals of the USSR Cup. After the merger of trade union teams into Zenit in 1940, he returned to Dinamo where he played until 1948.

Literature. Book Publishing // Personalia //

Nadson S.Y. (1862-1887), poet

NADSON Semen Yakovlevich (1862, St. Petersburg - 1887), writer. Graduated from Pavlovsky Military School (1882). In 1884 resigned on account of illness. A.N. Pleshcheev played an important part in his literary life. From 1882 he was a full member of Pushkin circle, contributed to Otechestvennye zapiski, from 1884 worked as the secretary of Nedelya newspaper's editor.

Science. Education // Educational Institutions // Army. Navy // Military Academies //
Nakhimov Navy School NAKHIMOV NAVY SCHOOL (before 1991, the Leningrad Nakhimov Navy School), at 2-4 Petrogradskaya Embankment, is a specialised men's boarding secondary school named after Admiral P.S. Nakhimov (1802-1855).

Art // Fine Arts // Personalia //

Nappelbaum M.S.(1869-1958), photographer

NAPPELBAUM Misey Solomonovich (1869-1958), photographer. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1910 and created the gallery of the city's public figures: Yury Annenkov, Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Block, Alexander Glazunov, Vsevolod Meyerkhold, Mikhail Kuzmin, Fedor Shalyapin, et al. He managed to reflect the true emotional state of his models, maintaining the plastic integrity of their images. His works were published in the journal Solntse Rossii.

Art // Music, Theatre // Personalia //
Napravnik E.F., (1839-1916), composer NAPRAVNIK Eduard Frantsevich (1839-1916, Petrograd), conductor, composer, and musician. Originally from the Czech Republic, he studied at an organ school and under I. F. Kittl, the director of the conservatory, in Prague. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1861, invited by Prince N. B. Yusupov to conduct his home orchestra for a year.

Social Life // Political Parties and Organizations //

Narodnaya Volya

NARODNAYA VOLYA (People's Will), the largest revolutionary public organization of the late 1870-80s. Originated in June 1879 as a result of the disunity among members of Zemlya i Volya, Narodnaya Volya was founded as an organization at a congress held illegally in Lesnoy, St. Petersburg in August 1879. The Executive Committee operated in St. Petersburg in 1879-81 as the governing body of the party.

City Topography // Urban Network // Avenues //

Narodnogo Opolchenia Avenue

NARODNOGO OPOLCHENIA AVENUE translated as Avenue of the People's Volunteer Corps, lying between Krasnoputilovskaya Street and Letchika Pilyutova Street and crossing districts of Knyazhevo, Dachnoe, Ulyanka, Ligovo, and Sosnovaya Polyana. The stretch behind Marshala Zhukova Avenue was known as Rabochy Avenue from 1930s. The avenue received its present-day name in 1964 in memory of the People's Volunteer Corps organised in Leningrad in 1941.

Army. Navy // Baltic Fleet //
Science. Education // Museums //

Narodovolets D-2, submarine memorial complex

NARODOVOLETS (10 Shkipersky Canal), memorial complex, affiliation of the Central Navy museum, opened in 1994. Narodovolets (D-2) was one of the first three Soviet submarines, constructed at the Baltic Shipbuilding Works in 1927-31. In the 1930s operated within the Baltic Fleet and the Northern Flotilla; during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 participated in the operations in the Baltic Sea. In 1956-87 was based in Kronstadt as a training ship.

Science. Education // Personalia //
Nartov A.K. (1693 -1756), mechanic NARTOV Andrey Konstantinovich (1693-1756, St. Petersburg), mechanic. Worked at the Moscow Mint for the artillery department. In 1712, he settled in St. Petersburg, becoming Tsar Peter the Great's private lathe operator. Upon the Tsar's death in 1725, Nartov, as well as his turnery, came under the supervision of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Architecture // Sculpture, Monuments //
Narva Triumphal Arch NARVA TRIUMPHAL ARCH, built in commemoration of the Patriotic War of 1812 on Narvskaya Square (today, Stachek Square) in 1827-34 (architect V.P. Stasov). The arch replaced the old wooden gate (1814, architect G. Quarenghi, sculptor I.I. Terebenev), which used to be located at the city gate, closer to Obvodny Canal.

City Topography // Historical Geography // Historical Districts, Localities, Tracts, Municipal Establishments //

Narvskaya Zastava

NARVSKAYA ZASTAVA, the historical name of the northern part of Kirovsky District. It descends to an outpost on the post road to Narva and Reval (today Tallin), that was located on the place of present-day Stachek Square. Villages Avtovo, Volynkina, Tentelevka and Emelyanovka and country estates of the nobility along Peterhofskaya Road were situated on the territory of Narvskaya Zastava since the early 18th century.

City Topography // Urban Network // Avenues //

Narvsky Avenue

NARVSKY AVENUE known as Novo-Peterhofsky Avenue before the 1880s, between Staro-Petergofsky Avenue and Stachek Square. It was named after the town of Narva. The avenue was laid in the first half of the 19th century as a part of Petergofsky Avenue (hence the previous name translated as New Petergofsky Avenue). Apartment houses were built in the avenue between the late 19th century and the early 20th century.

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