Vyborg side

The Vyborg Side ( Russian: Выборгская сторона ) is a historic district of Saint Petersburg on the right bank of the Neva and Bolshaya Nevka rivers .

At the beginning of the 18th century, the district was divided into a Karelian (or Finnish or Swedish), Ingermanland and Kanzewskaja side. The Karelian side was on the right bank of the Neva, the Ingrianland on the left and the Kanzewskaya side on the Ochta estuary on the Nyenschantz (Russian name in the 17th century: Kanzy - Канцы ).

In 1718 the police were founded and Saint Petersburg was officially divided into five districts: the Petersburg , Admiralty, Moscow, Vyborg side and Vasilyevsky Island .

The former Karelian side was named Vyborg side. The name comes from the old road to Vyborg , which started here. Some sources say that this street ran on the site of today's Bolshoi Samsoniewski Prospect (Большой Сампсониевский проспект) at least until the middle of the 18th century. On the other hand, if you look at the period before Peter I , according to a Swedish plan from 1698, it started eastwards (up to the level of today's metro station Чёрная речка ) and later swung westwards, roughly on the route of today's Laner Chaussee (Ланское шоссе).

In 1740 the Vyborg side was integrated into the Petersburg side, but became independent again after the reform of the city administration in 1782.

The first factories went into operation on the Vyborg side as early as the time of Peter I. In the second half of the 19th century the Vyborg side was the industrial part of the capital. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the first labor movement associations were organized here. The first Petersburg Marxists appeared around 1885 .

In 1936 three districts were formed on the territory of the Vyborg side, the Vyborg district , the Kalininsky district and the Zhdanovsky district .

literature

• Andrej Iwanovic Bogdanow: Istoriceskoe, geograficeskoe i topograficeskoe opisanie Sanktpeterburga, ot nacala zavedenïja ego, s 1703 po 1751 god: so mnogimi izobraženïjami pervych zdanij . Saint Petersburg 1779.

• IG Georgi: Opisanie rossijsko-imperatorskogo stolicnogo goroda Sankt-Peter'burga i dostopamjatnostej v okrestnostjach onogo, s planom 1794–1796 . League, Saint Petersburg 1996, ISBN 5-88663-003-1 .

• Sergej E. Glezerov: Istoriceskie rajony Sankt-Peterburga . Glagol, Saint Petersburg 2004, ISBN 5-89662-004-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Svetlana V. Alekseeva and others: Gorodskie imena segodnja i vcera: peterburgskaja toponimika / Полный свод названий за три века . Lik, Saint Petersburg 1997, ISBN 5-86038-023-2 .
2. ↑ Vera A. Vitjazeva, Boris Michajlovic Kirikov, Asja Veksler: Leningrad - putevoditel ʹ . Lenizdat, Leningrad 1988, ISBN 5-289-00492-0 ( online at: lib.ru ).
3. ↑ Anders Johan hipping: Vvedenie v istoriû Santa Peterburga, Neva ili i Nienšanc . Rossijskij Arhiv, Saint Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-86566-045-4 . , List 14.

Coordinates: 59 ° 58 '  N , 30 ° 21'  E