Kantemirovskaya street (St. Petersburg)

Since the 19th century, the street has been called Flyugovsky (or Flyugov ) Lane - by the name of the owner of a nearby cable factory ^[1] . The name Flygovsky Lane has existed since the 1830s and initially referred to the section from Vyborg Embankment to Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Prospect . The passage from Bolshaya Sampsonievsky Avenue to Pargolovskaya Street from the 50s of the XIX century until March 5, 1871 was called at first the Great Murinsky Road , or Murinsky Street , then simply Murinsky Street . On March 5, 1871, both of these sections were named Flyugovsky Lane . At the end of the 19th century, another section was added to the street - to the present Kharchenko Street (formerly Antonovsky Lane); the name was changed to Flygov lane .

The current name - Kantemirovskaya Street - was assigned on December 15, 1952 in memory of the liberation of Kantemirovki in December 1942, a village in the Voronezh region , named in turn in honor of the owner and the Lord of the Moldavian Principality Dmitry Kantemir . Kantemirovsky was also called the bridge, built in the alignment of the street in 1978 - 1982 . In the book by Alekseeva et al. ^[2] , it is stated that the short period (from June 1, 1981 to October 25, 1982 ), the street, according to the decree perpetuating his memory, bore the name of the economist and statesman, former Chairman, connected with his labor biography with Leningrad Council of Ministers of the USSR A.N. Kosygin .

In the early 1980s, the city authorities adopted a plan for the reconstruction of the territory between Lesnoy and Kondratyevsky Avenues in the Vyborg and Kalinin districts of Leningrad and with access to the Krasnogvardeisky district. The plan was set out in detail in the decision of the city government - Decision of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies of March 15, 1982, No. 126 ^[3] . The Kantemirovsky bridge was built with the aim of providing the main transport links of the historically central areas of the city - the Petrograd side and through it Vasilyevsky Island with the mainland areas of the northern and eastern right bank of the city and its suburbs. In order to create a single powerful transport artery, the carriageway of Kantemirovskaya Street was expanded in the second half of the 1980s. doubled at the expense of the northern sidewalks from the current Academician Klimov Square to the east and extended eastward until connecting to Annikov Avenue ^[3] - now as part of Marshal Blucher Avenue leading from the Vyborg District to the Piskaryovka microdistrict of the Kalinin District and further to the Krasnogvardeisky District to Prospect Energetikov . The Kushelevskaya road , extending from Marshal Blucher Avenue to the north, continuing the Civil Avenue, connected the city center with the densely populated sleeping area of ​​Grazhdanki via the Kantemirovskaya Street in almost the shortest way.

During the reconstruction along the newly-built carriageway on the north side of the street, a movement in the western direction to the Petrograd district was introduced, whereas before that only one-way movement in the eastern direction was carried out along the street; a separator of directions was built, a railway bridge was reconstructed with a second passage punched under it.

The development of public transport. Bus route No. 33 (formerly numbered 28 and 178) received two-way traffic. A trolleybus route was introduced from Grazhdanki via the Petrograd side along Bolshoy Prospekt of the Petrograd side to Vasilyevsky Island, the route of which was then reduced to the Sportivnaya metro station.

A complex of underpasses was built at the intersection with Forest Prospect , the construction of exits from which on rather narrow sidewalks led to the demolition of the one-story risalit of house No. 61 along the avenue, the general settlement of building No. 1 of this house with the resettlement of residents of the corner part within the microdistrict and the demolition of an old apartment building number 62 on the avenue, as a result of which the intersection has lost its architectural completeness. Residents of the house were relocated to the remote Krasnogvardeisky district, and the only pharmacy in the house that disappeared from the busy intersection disappeared.

Lesnoy avenue, house number 62, Kantemirovskaya street, house number 21

At the corner with Forest Prospect , in 1902, the architect A. I. Kovsharov built a tenement house.

The house was demolished in the 1980s, in its place is a wasteland.

Lesnoy prospekt, house number 60

The house closest to Kantemirovskaya Street, located on the same side of Lesnoy Prospekt, was house number 60 located to the Kantemirovskaya Firewall . This building was built in 1900 according to the project of the same A. I. Kovsharov.

The house was built on, but its front facade with rich decor has survived to this day.

Lesnoy avenue, house number 61

On the opposite (through Lesnoy Avenue) corner is the "House of Specialists". Architects G. A. Simonov , T. D. Katsenelenbogen , B. R. Rubanenko , L. K. Abramov . The building was built in 1934 - 1937 .

Memorial plaques are installed on the house in memory of the artist N.I. Altman (architect S. Odvalov, sculptor N. Nikitin) who lived there, the famous radio engineer, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences M. A. Bonch-Bruevich, and the chemist V. G. Khlopin
At the same house, in memory of the war , the blockade inscription “ Citizens! With shelling, this side of the street is the most dangerous . ”

On April 22, 1975, the Lesnaya metro station was opened.

Nearest metro stations:

• "Forest"

Planned metro stations of the designed Ring Line ^[4] :

• "Forest-2"
• Kantemirovskaya

Kantemirovskaya Street crosses or borders with the following avenues, streets and lanes:

• Vyborg embankment
• Krasnogvardeisky Lane
• Academician Klimov Square
• Big Sampsonievsky Avenue
• Forest Avenue
• Pargolovskaya street
• Kharchenko street
• Gribaleva street
• Polyustrovsky Avenue

• railway bridge across the street .
• Underground pedestrian crossing at the intersection with Forest Avenue.

• Business Center "Rainbow"

• 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. 149. - 511 p.
• 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. 53 .-- 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 .

• Overview of street buildings on Citywalls