Petrograd Island
The Petrograd Island ( Russian Петроградский остров ) is the third largest island in the Neva Delta of Saint Petersburg , Russia . Together with the Rabbit Island , the Apothecary Island , and the Petrovsky Island , the islands form the historic district of Petrograd . ( Russian : Петроградская сторона). It is the administrative center of the Petrograd Raion and is home to several universities and science centers, as well as museums, cultural and leisure facilities.
geography
The Petrograd Island lies between the Neva and its tributary, the Great Nevka. In the north the Karpowka separates it from the Apotheker Island, in the west the Kleine Newka from the Kreuzinsel, in the south the Zhdanowka from the Petrowski Island and in the southeast the Kronwerkgraben from the Rabbit Island .
She is on the Troitsky Bridge connected to the city center, on the Börsenbrücke and Tutschkow bridge the Vasilievsky Island , over the little Petrovsky bridge to Petrovsky Island, on the New Lazarevsky Bridge and Krestowski Bridge to Cross Island , as well as over the Sampsonjewski and Grenadiersbrücke with the Vyborg side .
history
In the 17th century, Finnish and Swedish farmers settled in a Russian settlement to promote the development of the island. In 1703 Peter I laid the foundation stone for the Peter and Paul Fortress on the nearby Rabbit Island . During this time he lived near the oldest square in Saint Petersburg, Troitsky Square ("Trinity Square") at the southeastern end of the island, which was Gorodsky Island ("City Island") after it was founded in the early 18th century and then Troitski Island was called until it was renamed in 1725 after the death of Peter I in St. Petersburg Island or St. Petersburg Island. The administrative center of Saint Petersburg moved to Vasilyevsky Island in the 1720s, and when it was banned from building stone houses north of Kronwerk in the 1730s, the island became more of a suburban residential area.
One of the first main streets was the Bolshoi Prospect ( boulevard ) from the 1730s, which crossed the island from the northwest to the Tushkow Bridge in the southwest and took the Parisian Grands Boulevards as a model. At that time, several regiments were housed on the island, so that the new roads linked them with each other. The first horse-drawn trams appeared in the 1860s, followed by trams in 1908 and trolley buses in 1948.
The other main street on the island is Kamennoostrowski Prospect, built in the 18th century, which begins at the Kronwerk esplanade. At Leo Tolstoy Square in the north it crosses the Bolshoi Prospect and then leads south to the Troitski Bridge to Kamenny Island. In the 1820s he was one equipped with special paving stones Chaussee . In the 1870s, a horse-drawn tram started running along the boulevard, and from 1909 there was an electric tram. In 1903 the boulevard was extended to Troitskaya Square.
When Saint Petersburg was renamed Petrograd in 1914, the island finally got its current name, Petrograd Island.
Attractions
Petrograd Island is the seat of several renowned universities and scientific research institutes. The State Medical University of St. Petersburg Pavlov , founded in 1897, is located in the Leo Tolstoy 6-8, and was the first Russian Institute for Women.
The State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics Saint Petersburg is one of the leading technical universities in Russia. The Moshaisky Military Space Academy (13 Zhdanovskaya Street) is a polytechnic educational institution and space research center of the Russian Armed Forces.
The Aurora , a warship of the Russian Navy and a symbol of the October Revolution of 1917, is of historical interest. It has been a museum ship since 1956 and is moored on the great Nevka near the Sampsonievsky Bridge.
Directly north of Kronwerk, in the former Aquarium Theatergarten , today's Lenfilm Studios, the first cinema screening took place in 1896. The Baltic House Festival Theater , Jubileiny Sports Complex , Saint Petersburg Planetarium and Leningrad Zoo are also on the island .
Individual evidence
- ^ Petrogradsky Island in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian ), accessed July 4, 2009
- ↑ a b c d Petrogradsky District in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian ), accessed on July 4, 2009
- ↑ Bolshoy Avenue of Petrogradskaya Side in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian )
- ↑ a b Kamennoostrovsky Avenue in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian )
- ↑ Medical University of St. Petersburg IP Pavlov ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Organizations: St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics: St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia. In: mathnet.ru. Retrieved May 31, 2015 .
- ^ Website of the State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics Saint Petersburg
- ^ History of the Cruiser Aurora
- ^ "Aquarium" in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Festival Theater Baltic House
- ↑ http://www.yubi.ru/
- ↑ Планетарий Санкт-Петербурга (German Planetarium Saint Petersburg, Alexander Park 4)
- ↑ Leningrad Zoo ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (Alexander Park 1, founded in 1865 as a zoological garden, renamed Leningrad Zoo in 1952. It kept its name, although in 1991 the city was renamed Saint Petersburg.
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Coordinates: 59 ° 58 ' N , 30 ° 18' E