Suvorovsky Prospekt - the largest highway in St. Petersburg

2024 Author: Harold Hamphrey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:06

Suvorovsky Prospekt is one of the largest highways in St. Petersburg, stretching to Proletarian Dictatorship Square. The highway was built in the middle of the 18th century. The street began at the Elephant Yard, on the site of which the modern Oktyabrskaya Hotel is located today.

Houses are numbered on the street from Nevsky Prospekt. At the end of the 18th century, Suvorovsky Prospekt was an ordinary country road leading to the Neva. Elephants from the menagerie (Elephant's Yard) were taken along it to a watering place. The menagerie contained fourteen elephants, which in 1741 were presented to the queen by the Shah of Persia. Residents of St. Petersburg came here to walk and admire the unseen animals. Over time, a new expression "wander around" - "loite" appeared in the vocabulary. At the time when the road entered the city limits, it was called sandy street from the name of the area in which it passed. The area next to the Suvorov highway in the past was called Sands, due to the fact that in this part of the city of St. Petersburg there were large marine sand deposits. In 1752, a settlement called the Office for the Construction of Houses and Gardens was built on these dry places, and later eight streets appeared here, goingparallel. Later, a Nativity Church was built in the center of the settlement, which is why the whole area began to be called Rozhdestvensky. In the period from 1802 to 1830, the track was Horse-Guards.

In 1900, one hundred years after the death of A. V. Suvorov, a museum was temporarily opened in honor of the commander on Slonovaya Street at the Academy of the General Staff. Today it houses the Military Academy of Communications. In 1904, a permanent museum was created not far from this avenue in house number 41-6 on Kirochnaya Street.

It was at that time that the highway began to be called Suvorovsky Prospekt. Part of the modern route from 9th Sovetskaya Street to the Smolny Palace was for some time called "the passage to the Smolny Monastery". In the 19th century, the road was called differently. It was both Middle and Elephant Street, it was also called Big Avenue. At the beginning of the 20th century, the highway was extended to Nevsky Prospekt. In length, it covers a distance of about two kilometers. From 1923 to 1944, the street was called Sovetsky Prospekt, due to the fact that its direction was towards Smolny, which housed the Petrograd Soviet. On its way, Suvorovsky Prospekt St. Petersburg intersects with almost 20 streets, including nine Soviet ones. The development of the avenue was actively carried out at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Mostly tenement houses were built here. In total, there are 67 houses on Suvorovsky Prospekt, including buildings with cafes and restaurants, household and food stores, banks, beauty salons, and dental clinics. In addition, hereNumerous state and administrative institutions are located.

Suvorovsky Prospekt today consists of old mansions harmoniously combined with modern buildings. It is one of the most important highways of St. Petersburg, which connects Proletarian Dictatorship Square with the Smolny Palace and Vosstaniya Square.