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      Narvskaya Zastava: the Tractor Palace of Culture and Ekateringof

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Gorky Palace of Culture shaped like a tractor, Traktornaya Street — the first socialist town — pies at a bakery and one of the city's oldest parks. Constructivism without the crowds.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Leningrad Region Palace of Arts (Gorky House of Culture)
        пл. Стачек, 4
        1920s Constructivism
        The palace of culture shaped like a tractor
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        Leningrad Region Palace of Arts (Gorky House of Culture)
        © Тулип · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • This is Leningrad's first house of culture: it opened on 7 November 1927, for the 10th anniversary of the revolution.
        • The building was built in 1925–1927 in the Constructivist style to a design by Alexander Gegello and Alexander Dmitriev, with the participation of David Krichevsky.
        • The house of culture received Gorky's name on 8 July 1929.
        • For decades the 2,200-seat hall was one of the city's main concert venues.
        • In 2020 the Leningrad Region bought the building and opened the Palace of Arts in it.
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      3. 2
        🚶 Traktornaya Street
        The city's first Constructivist-style housing block for workers
        The first socialist town
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        Traktornaya Street
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The street was named in 1926 in honour of the first tractors produced by the Krasny Putilovets plant.
        • The residential complex was built in 1925–1927 by the architects Gegello, Nikolsky and Simonov; the first buildings were laid down on 8 April 1925.
        • It was the city's first attempt at standardised housing construction.
        • The entrances to the courtyards are marked by half-arches linking the corner buildings.
        • The kitchens were designed with room for bathtubs, but the tubs were never installed.
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      5. 3
        ☕️ Pirogovy Dvorik Café-Bakery
        пр. Стачек, 2
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        A snack
        🍴 A café-bakery of the Pirogovy Dvorik chain by the Narva Gate: pies, pastries, soups and coffee. What to order: meat pie, seasonal pumpkin cream soup, raspberry tart, americano.
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      7. 4
        🌳 Yekateringof Park
        🚪 entrance from Perekopskaya Street
        A landscape park with ponds, little bridges and islands on the site of Catherine I's country estate.
        One of the city's oldest parks
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        Yekateringof Park
        © Степанов Андрей Владимирович · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yekateringof Park
        © Степанов Андрей Владимирович · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name means "Catherine's court" in German: Catherine I's wooden palace appeared here in 1711.
        • On 6 May 1703, nearby at the mouth of the Neva, a detachment led by Peter I and Menshikov captured the Swedish ships Gedan and Astrild.
        • Peter's Palace stood for more than two hundred years and was dismantled for firewood in 1926.
        • In 1823 the park was redesigned at the initiative of Count Miloradovich, with pavilions designed by Auguste de Montferrand.
        • Yekateringof is mentioned in the novels Oblomov and The Idiot.
        • From 1948 the park was officially named after the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol.

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