🚶 Karpovka Embankment

A narrow river with granite embankments and trees, winding through the Petrogradskaya Side.

The Karpovka is an arm of the Neva 3 km long and about 20 m wide, between Petrogradsky and Aptekarsky islands.
The name is a corruption of the Finnish Korpijoki, translated both as “forest” and as “crow” river.
The banks of the Karpovka were faced with granite only in the 1960s–70s.
No. 13 is the first residential building of the Leningrad Soviet (1932–1935, architects Levinson and Fomin), a model of Constructivism.
In 2021 the sculpture “Sad Angel” appeared by the Medical University, in memory of medics who died of coronavirus.

Part of these routes