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Addresses / Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city
Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island

BOLSHOY AVENUE OF VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, in 1720s-1780s - Bolshaya Prospektivaya or Bolshaya Pershpektivaya Street, in 1918-22 - F. Adlera Avenue, in 1922-44 - Proletarskoy Pobedy Avenue

Chekushi

CHEKUSHI is an area located in the south-western part of Vasilievsky Island. Its name is known from the first part of the 18th century and is related to "chekushi" or "tokmochi"

Finlyandsky Life Guards Regiment

FINLYANDSKY LIFE-GUARDS REGIMENT, was raised in December 1806 in Strelna and Peterhof as the Imperial Militia Battalion (recruited from state and court serfs, predominantly of the Finnish origin, hence the name). On 22.1

Ilyin L.A. (1880-1942), architect.

ILYIN Lev Alexandrovich (1880-1942), architect, Fellow of the Academy of architecture of the USSR (as of 1941). He studied at the College of Civil Engineers (1897-1909) and at the Academy of Fine Arts (1903-04). He was a member of the Old St

Kanareechnaya Street

KANAREECHNAYA STREET, running between Bolshoy Avenue and Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island. The street was laid in the 1800s, near Gallery Harbour. It was originally named after house-owner and skipper S. Kanareev (building no

Lines of Vasilievsky Island (entry)

LINES Of VASILIEVSKY ISLAND, the historical name of a number of parallel streets that intersect Vasilievsky Island from the south to the north: First to Twenty-Ninth Lines, Birzhevaya Line, Kozhevennaya Line, Kosaya Line, Mendeleevskaya Line

Pedestrian Zones (entry)

PEDESTRIAN ZONES. The first pedestrian zone in St. Petersburg was laid out on Malaya Konyushennaya Street after its reconstruction in 1995-97 (architect F. K. Romanovsky)

Vasileostrovets, garden

VASILEOSTROVETS, a garden between Bolshoy Avenue and Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island, Klubnaya Street, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Line of Vasilievsky Island. Its area is 1.4 hectares

Vasileostrovsky District

VASILEOSTROVSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 55 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island) Its present-day borders were formed in 1917 (the western part was a separate

Zastavy (Outposts) (entry)

ZASTAVY (OUTPOSTS), checkpoints, established in the early 18th century on the main roads at the entrance to St. Petersburg to check goods, luggage and to register people, leaving or entering the city