Artillery Island - an island in St. Petersburg . Located between the Kronverksky Strait and the Kronverksky Canal . It is part of the Petrograd side
| Artillery island | |
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 Kronverk Peter and Paul Fortress | |
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| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | St. Petersburg |
| Area | Petrogradsky district |
History
The island appeared after the laying of the Kronverksky channel in 1706, which divided Fomin Island (now Petrograd Island).
The modern name has been known since 1797. It is connected with the location of artillery batteries here on the crown of the Peter and Paul Fortress . Since 1869, the island has housed the Military History Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps . The area of the island is about 12 hectares.
Island Bridges
At the beginning of the 19th century, two bridges were thrown over the Kronverksky Canal - Western and Eastern Artillery . The Western Artillery Bridge at the end of the 19th century was dismantled and restored only in 1978 during the construction of the Kronverkskaya Embankment.
Literature
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- Darinsky A.V. Geography of Leningrad. - L .: Lenizdat, 1982.
- City names today and yesterday: Petersburg toponymy / comp. S.V. Alekseeva, A.G. Vladimirovich , A.D. Erofeev et al. - 2nd ed., Revised. and add. - SPb. : Lick , 1997 .-- S. 23. - 288 p. - (Three centuries of Northern Palmyra). - ISBN 5-86038-023-2 .
- 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. - SPb. : Norint , 2002 .-- 353 p. - ISBN 5-7711-0019-6 .
- St. Petersburg: Encyclopedia. - M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2006.