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      The Tram Depot and the Gavan Workers' Village

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 3.4 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The old Vasileostrovsky tram depot, the city's first social housing complex of 1906 with a nursery and canteen, and lunch by the gulf with draniki (potato pancakes).

      🏛 History and architecture✨ New places🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🖼 Urban Electric Transport Museum
        Средний пр. В.О., 77
        🎟 ticket · visits by guided tour only
        Old trams and trolleybuses in the Vasileostrovsky tram depot.
        Start from Vasileostrovskaya metro (~1.3 km). We look at the depot from outside; the tram museum inside is separate, open Wed–Sun.
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        Urban Electric Transport Museum
        © Dmitry Eliuseev · CC BY 2.0
        Urban Electric Transport Museum
        © Dinamik · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Urban Electric Transport Museum
        © Dinamik · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The collection dates from 1997, when almost all the main tram models were restored for the 90th anniversary of the Petersburg tram.
        • The YaTB-1 trolleybus was found on a dacha plot in the Leningrad region; it is the only one in the world to survive, and its restoration took four years.
        • In 2012 museum trams paraded along Sredny Avenue for the 105th anniversary of the Petersburg tram.
        • Every year on memorial dates, trams that survived the Siege go out on the line carrying veterans and Siege survivors.
        • About 2,700 people came here for the first Museum Night in 2011.
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        🏛 Gavan Workers' Town
        Гаванская ул., 47
        Experimental 1906 housing for workers by the engineers Dmitriev and Fyodorov — with a nursery, school and canteen.
        The city's first social housing complex.
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        Gavan Workers' Town
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Gavan Workers' Town
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The town was built in 1904–1906 on the initiative of the lawyer Dmitry Dril; the engineer Dmitriev was sent specially to study cheap housing in Europe.
        • It had 200 apartments of 1–3 rooms and 110 rooms with shared kitchens for single tenants.
        • Rent was noticeably cheaper than in tenement houses: a one-room apartment cost 8.5–12 rubles a month.
        • Since the early 1980s the end wall of house No. 69 has carried a 15×5 m mural: by one account it was painted by Mukhina School students.
        • In the 1920s a club of the Sevkabel plant with a cinema hall opened in the former library and lecture hall.
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        🍽 Vinegret
        Морская наб., 9
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        Lunch by the gulf.
        🍴 A Russian-cuisine café by the gulf. What to order: draniki (potato pancakes) with sour cream, fish, homemade liqueurs, pastries.

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