Sadovaya Street or Garden Street is a major thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg, Russia, passing through the historic city center. From east to west, it begins near the Field of Mars, crosses the Moyka River at the First Sadovy Bridge, then passes over Spassky…

Moskovsky Prospekt (Avenue) is one of the main street in St. Petersburg, the fourth longest thoroughfare of the city (after Sofiyskaya Street, Obukhovskaya Oborona Ave. and Engels Ave.). It connects Sennaya Square in the city center with Victory Square on…

Troitsky (Trinity) Prospekt is an avenue in the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg. Passes from Izmailovsky to Lermontovsky prospect. Main attractions Trinity-Izmailovsky Cathedral. House number 1-3 – Alexander Hospital, a complex with a territory,…

Izmailovsky Prospekt is an avenue in the historic core of the Admiralteisky administrative district of St. Petersburg. Meridional radial highway on the Nameless Island. It runs from the embankment of the Fontanka River to the embankment of the Obvodny Canal.…

Architector Rossi Street (until 1923 – Teatralnaya Street) is a street in the Central District of St. Petersburg, named after the architect Carl Rossi. It leads from the Alexandrinsky Theater to Lomonosov bridge (square) across Fontanka and consists of five…

Gorokhovaya Street is the middle of the three central highways of St. Petersburg, fanning out from the Admiralty. Passes from Admiralteisky Prospekt to Pionerskaya Square (former Semyonovsky Parade Ground). In Soviet times, was called Dzerzhinsky Street.…

Millionnaya Street is a street in the Central District of St. Petersburg. It runs from the Swan Canal embankment to the Palace Square parallel to the Neva River. The development of the current Millionnaya Street began in the early years of the existence of…

Neva – a river in Russia, flowing through the territory of the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg, connecting Lake Ladoga with the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. The length is 74 km, the basin area is 281 thousand km². The Neva is the…

Palace Embankment is the promenade on the Neva River in the center of St. Petersburg. It runs from the Fontanka River Embankment to the Palace Bridge, beyond which it continues to the Admiralteyskaya Embankment. Behind the Fontanka it continues with the Kutuzov…

The Swan Canal (Russian: Лебяжья канавка) is a waterway located in Saint Petersburg. Dating from the early years of the foundation of the city, it connects the Moyka and Neva Rivers. Originally built as part of a system of drainage canals, the Swan Canal…

University (Universitetskaya) embankment is the embankment of the Bolshaya Neva in St. Petersburg, on Vasilyevsky Island, which runs from Birzhevaya Square to Trezzini Square and the 6th line. The construction of the embankment began to take shape one of…

The English Embankment (Angliyskaya Naberezhnaya) or English Quay is a street along the left bank of the Bolshaya Neva River in Central Saint Petersburg. It stretches for 1260 m between the Senate Square and the Novo-Admiralteisky Canal. Zamyatin lane adjoins…

The Moyka (also latinised as Moika) is a secondary, in comparison with the Neva, river in Saint Petersburg that encircles the central portion of the city. It is the right branch of the Fontanka River flowing into the Bolshaya Neva, flowing out of it along…

The Winter Canal (Зимняя канавка) is a canal in the Central District of St. Petersburg, connecting the Neva and the Moyka near the Winter Palace. The canal was dug in 1718–19. It is only 228 metres long, which makes it one of the shortest canals in the city.…

Fontanka is a watercourse in St. Petersburg, a canal of the Neva River delta, crossing the central part of the city. Length – 7.6 km, width from 35 to 70 m, depth from 2.6 to 3.5 m. It flows from the Neva on the left, near the Summer Garden, and flows into…

Kryukov Canal is one of the canals in St. Petersburg. The Kryukov Canal was dug from the Admiralteisky Canal in the area of ​​the current Labour Square to the Fontanka. Initially dug in 1719-1720 from the Neva to the Moyka for transport purposes. Since 1738…

The Griboyedov Canal (until 1923 – the Ekaterininsky Canal) is a canal in St. Petersburg, originating from the Moyka River near the Field of Mars and flowing into the Fontanka near the Malo-Kalinkin Bridge. The length of the canal is 5.1 km, the width is…

Obvodny Canal (Bypass Canal), in the 1st half of the 19th century also Zagorodny Canal – the largest canal in St. Petersburg. It originates from the Neva River in the area of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra and reaches the Ekateringofka River. Initially, the canal…

New Holland is an island in the Admiralteisky district of St. Petersburg, bounded by the Moyka River, the Kryukov Canal and the Admiralteysky Canal. In addition, New Holland is a monument of industrial architecture of early classicism. The area of the island…