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ABAMELEK-LAZAREV (Abamelek-Lazarev) Semen Semenovich (1851-1916), prince, industrialist and landowner, archaeologist, Master of the Horse. Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of Petersburg University (1881)
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Academic Printing House (see Science, Printing House)
ACADEMIC PRINTING HOUSE (12/28 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island) is one of the oldest printing houses of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the country. It was founded in 1727. Publications of the printing house include works by M. V. Lomonosov, L
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Admiralty Dockyards
ADMIRALTY DOCKYARDS (203 Fontanka Embankment) is a State shipbuilding enterprise. It leads its history from the foundation of the Admiralty Dockyard in 1704. In 1800 some of the workshops were transported to Admiralteisky Island situated downstream
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Admiralty Shipyard
ADMIRALTY SHIPYARD, the first ship-building enterprise in St. Petersburg lay down on the left bank of the Bolshaya Neva on 5 November 1704 at the same time as the Admiralty, with chief commandant Y. V. Bruce as the construction manager
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Apraksin Yard
APRAKSIN YARD, a group of shops, storehouses, and offices built in the 18th and 19th centuries in the area belonging to the Counts Apraksin (hence the name) and bounded by the Fontanka River, Sadovaya Street, Lomonosova Street, and Apraksin Lane
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Assignation Bank
ASSIGNATION BANK, founded in 1769 at the same time as the Assignation Bank in Moscow to distribute banknotes and exchange them for metal coins. Backed by copper coins equal to 500,000 roubles
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Azovsko-Donskoy Commercial Bank
AZOVSKO-DONSKOY BANK, a joint-stock commercial bank opened in Taganrog in 1871 for financing trade and granting loans. Its share capital amounted to 5 million roubles in 1871; it became the largest bank in the country by the mid-1890s and one of the
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Baltic Shipyard and Machine-Building Plant
BALTIC SHIPYARD AND MACHINE-BUILDING PLANT (16 Kosaya Line), open joint-stock company, one of the biggest ship and machine building enterprises of Russia. It was founded in 1856 by M. E. Karr, a merchant and M. L. McPherson, an engineer
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Banks (entry)
BANKS, credit system institutions. St. Petersburg has been the central element of the system from the time it came into being through 1917. The first banks in Russia were founded on the initiative of the state and financed from the treasury
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Baranovsky V. S. (1846-1879), entrepreneur
BARANOVSKY Vladimir Stepanovich (1846-1879, St. Petersburg), inventor, designer, and entrepreneur. Educated at home, he attended lectures in one of institutes in Paris and studied on and off at St. Petersburg University
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Baykov А.А., (1870-1946), metallurgist
BAYKOV Alexander Alexandrovich (1870-1946) was metallurgist, chemist, academician (1932) and Vice-President (1942-46) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St
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Belyaev M.P., (1836-1903), public figure
BELYAEV Mitrofan Petrovich (1836, St. Petersburg - 1903, St. Petersburg) was a timber merchant, patron of arts, public figure and publisher of music scores, amateur musician
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Bird Charles, (1766-1843), engineer, entrepreneur
BIRD Karl Nikolaevich (Charles) (1766-1843, St. Petersburg), engineer and entrepreneur. A native of Scotland, he lived in Russia from 1786, serving as an assistant to K. K. Gascoigne at Alexandrovsky Gun Works in Petrozavodsk until he moved to St
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Boklevsky K.P., (1862-1928), Ship Building Engineer
BOKLEVSKY, Konstantin Petrovich (1862-1928) was a shipbuilding engineer and Major-General of the College of Naval Architects (1914). He graduated from the Technical College of the Naval Department (1884) and from Nikolaevskaya Naval Academy (1888)
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Bolshoy Gostiny Dvor
BOLSHOY GOSTINY DVOR (35 Nevsky Prospect), the largest commercial enterprise of St. Petersburg. The first plan for a Gostiny Dvor (effectively, a large scale trading market) on Nevsky Prospect was developed in the late 1750s by the architect A
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Breweries
BREWERIES, intensively developing enterprises, making up a significant share of St. Petersburg industry. It was in the early 18th century that Peter the Great decreed to open breweries in St. Petersburg for the needs of the fleet and hospitals
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Chernov D.K., (1839-1921), Metallurgist
Chernov Dmitry Konstantinovich (1839, St. Petersburg - 1921), scientist of metallurgy. He graduated from St. Petersburg Technological Institute (1858), and later taught there in 1859-68 (26/49 Moskovsky Avenue; commemorative plaque)
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Clark Matthew (1776-1846), metallurgical engineer
CLARK Matvey Egorovich (Matthew) (1776-1846), metallurgical engineer, Chief Hunt Master. A native of Scotland, he served as inspector at St. Petersburg Iron Foundry (today, Kirovsky Plant) in 1824 and director of Alexandrovsky Foundry (today
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Commerce (general)
COMMERCE. Favorably located, St. Petersburg has always played a major role in the country’s foreign trade (see Sea Port). The life of the city itself has been mainly supported by home trade, retail trade above all
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Confectioneries (entry)
CONFECTIONERIES. Mass production of confections began in St. Petersburg in the middle of the 19th century. In 1914 there were 20 confectioneries producing both traditional Russian delicacies (spice-cakes, pastila
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Curtain and Lace Company
CURTAIN AND LACE COMPANY (25 Chapaeva Street), an open joint-stock company, the largest national enterprise manufacturing curtain cloth, lace, and lacery. Founded in 1837 as the St
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Danilevsky N. I, entrepreneur
DANILEVSKY Nikolay Ivanovich (1849, St. Petersburg - 1929), engineer and entrepreneur. Graduated from St. Petersburg Technological Institute with a major in mechanics in 1869 and stayed on as a lecturer
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Davidov А.А. (1867-1942), entrepreneur
DAVIDOV Alexey Avgustovich (1867-1940), banker and manufacturer, Actual Civil Counsellor (1913). Graduating from St. Petersburg University with a major in mathematics and physics in 1891 and from St
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Degtyarev V.A., (1879-1949), Small Arms Designer
DEGTYAREV Vasily Alexeevich (1880-1949) was a small-arms designer, Doctor of Technology (1940), Major-General of Engineering and Artillery (1940), Hero of Socialist Labour (1940)
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Dukhov N.L. (1904-1964), weapons engineer
DUKHOV Nikolay Leonidovich (1904-64) was a weapons engineer and Lieutenant General (1954), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1953), Hero of Socialist Labour (1945, 1949, and 1954)
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Electric Apparatus Plant
ELECTRIC APPARATUS PLANT (3-7, Twenty-Fourth Line of Vasilievsky Island) is an open joint-stock company, the first plant in the country for design and production of machinery for electric power stations (including nuclear power stations) and power
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Elektrosila Plant
ELEKTROSILA (139 Moskovsky Prospect), an open joint-stock company from 1992, the largest power engineering plant in Russia. Founded in 1898, it was a unit of Siemens-Galske Company, situated at 34 First Line, Vasilievsky Island
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Eliseev Family, merchants and bankers
ELISEEV FAMILY, merchants, entrepreneurs, public figures. Progenitor Peter Eliseevich Eliseev (1775-1825, St. Petersburg), a peasant from Yaroslavl Province, opened a greengrocery in St. Petersburg in 1813
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Eliseevsky Shop
ELISEEVSKY SHOP (56 Nevsky Prospect / 8 Malaya Sadovaya Street) is the monument of architecture of Eclecticism and early Art Nouveau style. The main building housing a food store and a theatre lobby was built in 1902-03 (architect G. V
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Engraving Chamber
ENGRAVING CHAMBER was an engraving workshop, a section of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences of Russia which made engravings mainly for publishing houses, including book illustrations, scientific illustrations and tables
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