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      🚶 6th and 7th Lines Boulevard

      Vasilyevsky's pedestrian “line”

      6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
      © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • According to Peter I's plan the lines of Vasilyevsky Island were to be canal embankments; the name of the 6th and 7th lines has been known since 1718.
      • The pedestrian Andreevsky Boulevard between Bolshoy and Sredny prospekts opened in 2002.
      • The monument to Vasily Korchmin, commander of Peter's battery on the Spit, was unveiled at 34, 7th Line in 2003.
      • From 1863 one of the city's first passenger horse trams ran along the 6th Line — a reminder is the carriage with bronze horses by Sredny Prospekt.
      • The painter Nicholas Roerich was born at No. 1 on the 6th Line in 1874.
      • Korney Chukovsky lived at No. 5 on the 6th Line in 1905–1906.

      Part of these routes

      • Vasilyevsky’s Lines and Erarta
      • Two markets: Sytny and Andreevsky
      • Quiet Vasilyevsky: Smolenka
      • All of Vasilyevsky: from the Strelka to the bay
      • Vasilyevsky at dusk: the Strelka, sphinxes, the Lines

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