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      Kresty, an Estate on the Neva and Constructivist Courtyards

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The red-brick buildings of Kresty from the embankment, Durnovo's Neoclassical dacha on the Neva and the green courtyards of a Constructivist housing estate of 1929–1931.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Kresty
        Арсенальная наб., 7
        A former red-brick prison of the late 19th century with cross-shaped blocks; closed for reconstruction from autumn 2026. The closure dates are known only from plans for summer 2026 — check before you go.
        8 minutes on foot from Ploshchad Lenina metro along Arsenalnaya Embankment. The prison is closed for reconstruction — walk around it along the embankment and look at the buildings and the prison church from outside. If work hasn't started yet, the embankment is open anyway.
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        Kresty
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The prison was built in 1884–1892 to a design by A. O. Tomishko: two five-storey cross-shaped blocks with 960 cells.
        • In 1937–1938 the prisoners here included Nikolai Zabolotsky, Lev Gumilev, Georgy Zhzhyonov and the future marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky.
        • In 1922 the raider Lyonka Panteleev escaped from Kresty, climbing down the wall on ropes made of blankets.
        • On the top floor of one of the blocks was the prison Church of Alexander Nevsky; the crosses were returned to its domes in 2004.
        • In 2017 the detention centre moved to the new Kresty in Kolpino, and in 2025 the KVS group bought the old building for 1.136 billion rubles.
        • Across the Neva opposite are Mikhail Shemyakin's sphinxes (1995) and the monument to Anna Akhmatova (2006), whose husband and son were held in Kresty.
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        🏛 Sasha Kondratiev Monument
        Свердловский сад, Свердловская наб.
        A monument to a Komsomol member of the Civil War era, after whom Kondratyevsky Avenue is named.
        In Sverdlovsky Garden there's a monument to the Komsomol member after whom the avenue you'll follow next is named
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        • The monument was erected in 1958; the sculptor is G. D. Glikman and the architect Yu. Ya. Macheret.
        • Sasha Kondratiev (1900–1918) created the first Komsomol cells on the Vyborg Side — hence the monument here.
        • Surrounded by the Whites, the 18-year-old commissar shot himself rather than surrender.
        • Kondratiev's father helped the sculptor; the figure of the young man in a service jacket with a Mauser is 2.2 m tall on a red granite pedestal.
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        🏛 Durnovo Dacha
        Свердловская наб., 22
        A country estate of the turn of the 18th–19th centuries in the Classical style on the Neva bank.
        Inside is an events venue, so look at the columns from the embankment; along the way are the buildings of the Metal Works
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        Durnovo Dacha
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The villa was built by P. V. Bakunin in the 1780s, probably to a design by N. A. Lvov; D. N. Durnovo bought it in 1813.
        • In June 1917 the dacha became the anarchists' headquarters — an attempt to evict them caused strikes on the Vyborg Side.
        • On 19 June (2 July) 1917 the dacha was stormed by Cossacks and infantry with an armoured car; the anarchist Asnin was killed and 59 people arrested.
        • In Soviet times it housed the club and museum of the Leningrad Metal Works.
        • After a fire in 1998 the building lost its pediment and second floor; in 2015 it was dismantled and by 2016 recreated in reinforced concrete.
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        🚶 Kondratyevsky Housing Estate ("Forties Blocks")
        Кондратьевский пр., 40
        A Constructivist housing estate of 1929–1931: 12 buildings with green courtyards, by the architects G. Simonov, L. Tverskoy and others.
        Turn into the courtyards between the buildings: flat roofs, stair towers, greenery. Nearby on Kalinin Square is a monument to the “All-Union Elder”
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        Kondratyevsky Housing Estate ("Forties Blocks")
        © Красный · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The quarter is one of the first in Leningrad built for Vyborg Side workers and a characteristic monument of Constructivism.
        • The design was chosen through a 1927–1928 competition for standard workers' apartments.
        • Besides apartment buildings of 60 flats each, a laundry, library, club, nursery and kindergarten were built here.
        • By the thinking of the time the apartments had no bathrooms: people were meant to wash at bathhouses and eat in canteens, so the kitchens are small too.

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