Traktornaya Street

Categories / City Topography/Urban Network/Streets
TRAKTORNAYA STREET, from Stachek Avenue to Sivkov Lane. The street was laid on the place of Krylova Lane and named so in 1926 in commemoration of the output of the first tractors at the Krasny Putilovets plant (present-day Kirov Plant). In 1925-27, the street gained a housing estate built for the workers of Narvskaya Zastava (architects A.I. Gegello, A.S. Nikolsky and G.A. Simonov). The estate incorporated 16 three and four-storied residential-houses with flats (from two to four rooms) intended for one or two families. Some outdoor space was left between the buildings, with trees and gardens planted in the street and in the yards. The projections of the stairs, balconies and original semi-arches attach a special expressiveness to the buildings. The curt and austere architectural treatment of the ensemble merged with features of early constructivism and a simplified version of advanced neo-classicism.

References: Гегелло А. И. Из творческого опыта: Возникновение и развитие архит. замысла. Л., 1962.

B. М. Kirikov. Gegello Alexander Ivanovich
Nikolsky Alexander Sergeevich
Simonov Grigory Alexandrovich
Stachek Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Traktornaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Uglovoy Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Гегелло А. И. Из творческого опыта: Возникновение и развитие архит. замысла. Л., 1962 Kirovsky Plant
1925