Nepokorennykh Avenue

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NEPOKORENNYKH AVENUE translated as the Avenue of the Unconquered, a part of the central ring road running between Muzhestva Square and Piskarevsky Avenue and crossing Kushelevka and Piskarevka. The stretch up to Gzhatskaya Street was known as Bolshaya Spasskaya Street from the 1880s; the other part was called Piskarevskaya Road or Road to Piskarevka. The avenue received its present-day name in 1964 in memory of the courage and firmness shown by Leningrad inhabitants during the siege of 1941-44. The Metochion of the Holy Trinity Lyutikovo Monastery of Peremyshl built by architect N. N. Nikonov at number 14 in 1905-11 remained there until 1982. Today, the building accommodates a machine shop. The complex of the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery was opened in 1960s. The Siege Well Monument was erected at number 6 at the same time. The stretch near Grazhdansky Avenue was built up in 1950s. New buildings were erected at the head of Nepokorennykh Avenue and near Piskarevsky Avenue in 1970s with architects A. V. Vasilyev and O. B. Frontinsky in charge of the project. Krasny Oktyabr Company and the Research Institute of Fine Mechanics are situated at 1-5 and 47 Nepokorennykh Avenue, respectively. P. B. Struve lived in Bolshaya Spasskaya Street (today, a part of Nepokorennykh Avenue) in 1910-12.

Reference: Афонченко А. А. Проспект Непокоренных // СиАЛ. 1966. № 6. С. 16-17.

G. Y. Nikitenko. Frontinsky Oleg Borisovich
Nikonov Nikolay Nikitich
Struve Peter Berngardovich
Vasilyev Alexander Viktorovich
Grazhdansky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Gzhatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Muzhestva Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Nepokorennykh Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Nepokorennykh Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Nepokorennykh Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Nepokorennykh Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Nepokorennykh Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Nepokorennykh Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 47
Nepokorennykh Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Piskarevsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Афонченко А. А. Проспект Непокоренных // Стр-во и архитектура Ленинграда, 1966 Siege of 1941-44
Piskarevskoe Memorial Cemetrey
State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg