Bolshaya Ohta is a place on the territory of the Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg [1] . Located between the Neva River, Revolution Highway , Energetikov Avenue and the Okhta River.
| Big Okhta | |
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| City | St. Petersburg |
| The administrative district of the city | Krasnogvardeisky |
| First mention | 1720s |
| Ethno-burial | Okhtins (also: Okhtians), Okhtinets, Okhtinka |
It was named along the Okhta River , on the right bank of which it is located. The definition of Bolshaya is given to distinguish it from Malaya Okhta , located on the left bank.
Formerly along the coast was the Swedish city of Nien . After its destruction for some time there were no villages here. In the early 1720s, according to the decrees of Peter the Great, construction began on the “500 houses with canopies along the Neva”, in which carpenters from the Vologda , Arkhangelsk and Yaroslavl provinces settled with their families. Each family received half of the house. Carpenters worked at a particular shipyard [2] .
Today, several names of small streets that previously passed between the modern Sverdlovskaya embankment and Metallistov Avenue have been preserved about those times. They immortalized the names of the Okhta carpenters: Mironov , Panfilov , Abrosimov , Gusev and Tarasova streets [3] .
Until the beginning of the 20th century, Big Okhta was called the Okhten settlements and the Okhten side .
At first, development was only along the banks of the Neva. East of it, in 1773, the Bolsheokhtinsky cemetery was founded.
In 1892, in the center of Bolshaya Okhta, the Irinovsky railway station of the Irinovo narrow gauge railway was opened (it was located at the intersection of the current Bolsheokhtinsky Prospekt and Bolshaya Porokhovskaya Street ).
In the late 1940s, reconstruction of the area began. Instead of wooden houses destroyed during the Great Patriotic War , typical 2–4-story brick buildings were built. The central highway was Sredneohtinsky Prospekt . In the late 1960s, Krasnogvardeiskaya Square , which was located on both banks of the Okhta, became the front gate: it designed the entrance from the Bolsheokhtinsky bridge . At the same time, residential quarters appeared between Metallistov Avenue and the Connecting Railway. In the 1970s, new buildings representing vertical and horizontal volumes appeared on Sverdlovskaya embankment [1] .
The southern part of Big Okhta is an industrial zone. It is planned to be reconstructed.
The area was called Bolsheokhtinsky Prospekt .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Big Okhta, locality // Encyclopedia “St. Petersburg”
- ↑ Glezerov S.E. Historical areas. - SPb. : Verb, 2005 .-- S. 125 .-- 223 p. - (St. Petersburg from A to Z). - 2000 copies. - ISBN 5-89662-004-7 .
- ↑ Vladimirovich A. G. , Erofeev A. D. Petersburg in the names of the streets. - M .: AST; SPb. : Astrel-SPb; Vladimir : VKT, 2009 .-- 752 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-17-057482-7 .
Literature
- Gorbachevich K. S. , Khablo E. P. Why are they so named? On the origin of the names of streets, squares, islands, rivers and bridges of Leningrad. - 3rd ed., Rev. and add. - L .: Lenizdat , 1985 .-- S. 279. - 511 p.
- Gorbachevich K. S. , Khablo E. P. Why are they so named? On the origin of the names of streets, squares, islands, rivers and bridges of St. Petersburg. - 4th ed., Revised. - SPb. : Norint , 1996 .-- S. 191. - 359 p. - ISBN 5-7711-0002-1 .