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      🏛 Countess Panina's People's House

      Тамбовская ул., 63

      Art Nouveau of 1901–1903: the first people's house for Ligovka workers, since 1926 the Railway Workers' House of Culture.

      Countess Panina's People's House
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • It all began with a free canteen for 50 workers' children that Countess Sofia Panina opened on Ligovka in 1891.
      • The Art Nouveau building was built in 1901–1904 to a design by Julius Benois.
      • The tower housed Russia's first public observatory, and also a water tank in case of fire.
      • Lectures here were given by Genrikh Graftio, Alexander Karpinsky and Vladimir Vernadsky.
      • Lenin spoke in the building on 9 May 1906 — a memorial plaque recalls this.
      • At the turn of 1909–1910 the First Congress of Teetotallers, with Bekhterev taking part, was held here.
      • Since 1926 the building has housed the Railway Workers' House of Culture.

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      • Volkovo: Literatorskie Mostki and Ligovka
      • From Rasstannaya to the American Bridges

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