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Arsenalnaya Emb. (as of April 16, 1887)

Arsenalnaya Embankment

ARSENALNAYA EMBANKMENT on the right bank of the Neva River between Arsenalnaya Street and Akademika Lebedeva Street. It was so named in 1887 after Novy Arsenal Plant (today, Arsenal Joint-Stock Company situated in house 1)

Arsenals (general article)

ARSENALS, establishments for storing and repairing weapons and ammunition, as well as buildings meant for such use. The first arsenals in St. Petersburg (Zeughaus) were built in 1703-05 in St Peter and Paul Fortress and the Admiralty Fortress

Jazz

JAZZ. Instrumental groups, dance and concert jazz music on city stages, appeared in Leningrad in the late 1920s. On April 28, 1927 the hall of the Capella hosted the debut concert of L.Y. Teplitsky's First Concert Jazz-Band. A year later G.V

Kalininsky District

KALININSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 13 Arsenalnaya Embankment.) The district was named in honour of Mikhail Kalinin in 1946

Kosyakov Vas. A., Kosyakov Vl. A., Kosyakov G.A., architects

KOSYAKOV family, architects, brothers, masters of Neo-Russian and Neoclassical styles. Vasily Antonovich Kosyakov (1862, St. Petersburg - 1921, Petrograd), graduated from the Civil Engineers' Institute (1885); from 1900

Kresty Prison.

KRESTY (Crosses) (5-7 Arsenalnaya Embankment/ 8 Komsomola Street), a colloquial name of St. Petersburg solitary confinement prison. It was built in 1884-90 (architect A.O

Lenina Square

LENINA SQUARE, at the intersection of Arsenalnaya Embankment and Botkinskaya Street. Named in 1924 in memory of V.I. Lenin's visit to Petrograd in April 1917; known as Lenina Alley until 1946

Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy

MIKHAILOVSKY ARTILLERY ACADEMY (МАА), military scientific and educational institution of higher retraining of artillery command personnel. It was based in 1855 on the basis of officers’ classes at the Mikhail Artillery High School within the General

Military Colleges (entry)

MILITARY COLLEGES, military high schools for training army officers. They appeared in the early 19th century. Reorganised and unified in 1859-64, they had uniform admission rules, curriculum and organisation

Pirogovskaya Embankment

PIROGOVSKAYA EMBANKMENT on the right bank of the Bolshaya Nevka River between Akademika Lebedeva Street and Maly Sampsonievsky Avenue. It consists of two sections. The first section, named after N. I

Sverdlovskaya Embankment

SVERDLOVSKAYA EMBANKMENT (in 1887-1925 - Polyustrovskaya Embankment, after the area of Polyustrovo), on the right bank of the Neva River, between Arsenalnaya Street and Krasnogvardeiskaya Square. It was named after Y.M. Sverdlov

Vyborgskaya Side

VYBORGSKAYA SIDE, a historical district of St. Petersburg, on the right bank of the Neva River and the Bolshaya Nevka River. In the east, it is confined by the Chernaya Rechka River