X-ray Street (St. Petersburg)

The first section of the street - from Kamennoostrovsky Avenue to Leo Tolstoy Street , was laid in the 1880s and on April 16, 1887 was called Lyceum Street . Nearby, in house 21 on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt, was the Imperial Alexander Lyceum , transferred here in 1843 from Tsarskoye Selo (before moving - Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum ).

October 6, 1923 , in connection with the death of the German physicist W. Roentgen , Nobel Prize winner and first researcher of X-rays , his name was immortalized by renaming the highway to Roentgen Street . The renaming was also associated with the fact that in the house 1 on the street since 1922 the Radium Institute was located.

The second section of the street, between the streets of Leo Tolstoy and Chapaev - later, it began to be laid and built up according to the decision of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council of September 18, 1944 , and the through passage appeared there only in the 1970s .

• House 1 (Kamennoostrovsky pr., 23) - the former house of teachers of the Lyceum . Built in the 1830s in the classical style by the architect P.S. Plavov . ^{[1] [2]} . It was reconstructed in 1903 - 1905 according to the project of the architect V. A. Demyanovsky . In 1887, the future prominent mathematician V. I. Smirnov was born here in the family of Archpriest Lyceum Church I. N. Smirnov . In 1922, the building was transferred to accommodate the Radium Institute founded by V. I. Vernadsky (now the NGO “Radium Institute named after V. G. Khlopin ”). On the occasion of the 125th birthday of Vernadsky in 1988, the Museum of the Radium Institute was opened in the building. The building also houses the first cyclotron in Europe and a small part of the institute’s research laboratories ^[3] . On the facade of the building on Kamennoostrovsky Prospect there are memorial plaques in honor of Academicians V.I. Vernadsky and V.G. Khlopin , on X-ray Street - in honor of Academician B.P. Nikolsky , on the courtyard facade - in honor of all academicians and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences - employees of the Radium Institute (14 names in total).   architectural monument (federal)

• House 2 (Kamennoostrovsky pr., 25) - 1952 , Soviet neoclassicism , arch. O. I. Guryev , V. M. Fromsel , K. A. Gerber. The building was built at the expense of the Ministry of Higher Education for university professors. Before the revolution, this site belonged to a hereditary honorary citizen, a merchant of the 2 guilds, court flower supplier German Friedrich Eulers, father-in-law F.I. Lidval . Since 1881, its flower ridges, greenhouses and residential buildings have been located here. In April 1918, in the then house 25, the district "People’s House named after Karl Liebknecht ”(later“ People’s houses ”were renamed“ Education houses ”); at the opening, Lunacharsky delivered a big speech. Later, the house was demolished, and in its place was the stadium. In the 1930s , classes of the figure skating instructors seminar, headed by N. A. Panin-Kolomenkin , were held at this stadium. A number of outstanding scientists and teachers lived in the existing building, among them V.I. Smirnov (lived in block 44 from 1952 to 1974 ), S. E. Frisch (lived in block 26 from 1953 to 1977 ) and others.

• House 4 - the profitable home of G.F. Eulers. Built in 1913 - 1914 according to the project of K. G. Eulers (with the participation of F. I. Lidval ).   architectural monument (newly identified object) ^[4]
• In the house 5 lived the St. Petersburg mayor D.V. Drachevsky .

• House 6 - a building in the style of Stalinist neoclassicism , built in 1954 for workers of the NGO named after Klimova . Architects: Guryev O. I., Fromzel V. M. The building has its own boiler room and bomb shelter .
• House 7 - apartment building M. Ya. Stelp. Built in 1910 according to the design of D. A. Kryzhanovsky .   architectural monument (newly discovered object) ^[4] In the apartment 12 of this house, in a square window facing the courtyard, a stained glass window in the form of a spider with curved paws, and a spider web was assembled from transparent glass with polished facet (lost when resettling a communal apartment in 1990s). ^[5]

In the 1930s and 40s, an animal artist and children's writer E.I. Charushin lived in an apartment on the 6th floor.

• House 8 - a hospital building in memory of Emperor Alexander II of the Charity Society for the Followers of Homeopathy . Built in 1893 - 1898 according to the project of P. Yu. Suzor . At the hospital there was a church with a belfry, consecrated by John of Kronstadt . In Soviet times, the church was dismantled. Since 1918, the building housed the State Radiological and Radiological Institute, created at the initiative of M. I. Nemenov . In 1920, the institute was transformed into the Central Radiological, Radiological and Cancer Institute. In 1971, the institute moved to the village of Pesochny . Subsequently, the building housed the Department of Radiology and Radiology of the First Medical Institute .   architectural monument (newly identified object) ^[4]

• In the front garden in front of the building’s facade there is a X-ray monument by sculptor V. A. Sinaisky designed by the artist N. I. Altman , opened on February 17, 1928 (before the revolution, a monument to Alexander II was in this place).

• House 9 - mansion of engineer of communications S. N. Chaev. Built in 1907 according to the project of Vladimir Apyshkov . The building is considered one of the best monuments of the St. Petersburg northern Art Nouveau . The plan has a diagonal axis, on which there are three cylindrical volumes: a vestibule, a hall and a winter garden. The hall is faced with artificial marble. On the second floor in the hall there is a balcony-gallery. The walls are decorated with majolica tiles and embossed friezes based on the Parthenon friezes ^[6] . In 1914, F.I. Lidval erected a small extension on the site of an open terrace. In 1916, the architect M. I. Roslavlev added a one-story volume with a terrace. Since 1912, the mansion belonged in turn: Letunovsky P.N., Solovyov V.N., Verstat M.E. In November 1919, the mansion was transferred to the Maternity and Infancy Protection Center ^[7] . Since 1926, the building has been the regional dental clinic number 17 ^[8] .
• On the opposite side of Roentgen Street ( Lev Tolstoy Street , 17-19) there was previously school number 72, and then the Zhilotsotsstroy organization, and now the Clinic for Nephrology and Urology, St. Petersburg State Medical University named after I.P. Pavlova (architect R.G. Tetelbaum with the participation of N. Weisburn, 1970 project, implemented in 1977-1989). In front of the facade, on the corner of X-ray and Leo Tolstoy Streets, there is Fedor Uglov Square ^[9] , decorated with a metal sculpture in the shape of a bowl entwined with a snake - a symbol of medicine ^[10] .
• House 17 ( Leo Tolstoy St. , 8) - a building in which, since 1968, the Petrogradets sports and recreation complex with a swimming pool has been operating ^[11] (architects V. Exe, L. Hidekel and V. Afanasyev) ^{[12] [ 13]} .
• Opposite the center "Petrogradets" on the corner of st. Leo Tolstoy is the Institute of Pulmonology, St. Petersburg State Medical University . A 12-story Raisa Gorbacheva Institute of Pediatric Hematology and Transplantology , built on the initiative and with the participation of the Gorbachev Foundation on the basis of the bone marrow transplantation clinic of St. Petersburg State Medical University (solemnly opened in September 2007 ) , was erected close to it and to house 12 ^[14] .
• At the end of the street, at the intersection with st. Chapaeva , ( Chapaeva St., 28 and 30a, Kazarmenny per., 1-3, and Petrogradskaya embankment , 44) - the former complex of barracks of the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment (architect Luigi Ruska , 1805 - 1809 ) ^{[15] [16]} .

• “X-ray Street” - the name of the essay by Vera Inber (1942) ^[17]

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