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      The Vyborg Side: Constructivism and the Nobel courtyards

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The industrial Vyborg Side without Lesnoy Prospekt to the north: a 1927 house of culture, the Nobels’ mansion and workers’ settlement, Peter’s St Sampson Cathedral and a loft on the Karpovka.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
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        🏛 Finlyandsky Station and Locomotive N2-293
        Санкт-Петербург, пл. Ленина, 6
        The locomotive on which Lenin fled to Finland in 1917 and returned stands in a glass pavilion by the platforms; in front of the station is the "Lenin on an Armoured Car" monument.
        Start at Ploshchad Lenina metro.
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        Finlyandsky Station and Locomotive N2-293
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The locomotive was built in 1900 by the American firm Richmond Locomotive Works.
        • On 9 August 1917 the driver Hugo Jalava took Lenin into the cab at Udelnaya station disguised as a stoker.
        • At Beloostrov, while the gendarmes checked passports, Jalava uncoupled the locomotive "to take on water" and returned by the third bell.
        • In 1924 the locomotive passed to Finland, and on 13 June 1957 the Finnish government gave it to the USSR.
        • The locomotive has stood by the station platform since 22 April 1961, and the glass pavilion was built by 1964.
        • Finlyandsky Station was the only one working during the Siege: on 7 February 1943 the first train from the "mainland" arrived here.
        • On 3 (16) April 1917 Lenin arrived at this station from emigration.
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        🏛 Vyborg House of Culture
        Санкт-Петербург, ул. Комиссара Смирнова, 15
        A workers' palace of culture from 1924–1927 by Gegello and Krichevsky, the authors of the country's first Gorky House of Culture; early Leningrad Constructivism.
        Walk around the 1920s palace of culture.
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        Vyborg House of Culture
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The House of Culture grew on the unfinished building of the Vyborg Cooperative Society from 1913–1916 (architects Zazersky and Starostin).
        • The building was finally completed only in the 1970s.
        • The palace's hall seats two thousand spectators.
        • The House of Culture's photo club, created in 1953, is called the country's first amateur photographers' club.
        • In 1978 the House of Culture became a "palace of culture and technology", and twenty years later simply a palace of culture again.
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        ☕️ Dobro Coffee Microroasters
        Санкт-Петербург, Лесной пр., 6 (угол ул. Комиссара Смирнова)
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        House-roasted coffee in the building next door.
        🍴 A coffee shop and roastery with its own barista school by the Vyborg House of Culture. What to order: filter coffee of their own roast, cappuccino, a dessert with coffee.
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        🏛 Ludwig Nobel Mansion
        Санкт-Петербург, Пироговская наб., 19
        The mansion and administration building of the Ludwig Nobel engineering works on the Nevka embankment.
        Go out to Pirogovskaya Embankment to the industrialist’s mansion.
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        Ludwig Nobel Mansion
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The owner's house, which was also the office, was built under K. K. Anderson in several stages from 1870 to 1886.
        • In 1902–1903 Roman Meltzer extended the mansion; the facades are in the spirit of an Italian Renaissance palazzo.
        • Fyodor Lidval roofed the iron foundry with reinforced-concrete trusses with a curved upper chord.
        • The Art Nouveau People's Reading Room was built by Meltzer in 1897–1910; after the Revolution it housed a Pioneers' Palace.
        • Many of the factory buildings burned down in the war.
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        🚶 Nobel Workers' Town
        Санкт-Петербург, Лесной пр., 20
        A town for the staff of Nobel Brothers (1893–1916, Schröter, Meltzer, Lidval): Art Nouveau, apartments "with all conveniences" and little gardens between buildings.
        Walk between the settlement’s buildings and find Lidval House.
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        Nobel Workers' Town
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Nobel Workers' Town
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Ludwig Nobel bought the plot for the housing colony in the mid-1880s, and his son Emanuel developed it.
        • The first three stone houses were built in 1893–1895 to designs by V. A. Schröter.
        • Meltzer built buildings 1–2 in 1906 from concrete blocks — one of the early examples of block construction.
        • Only workers valuable to the plant, usually hereditary craftsmen, were given apartments here.
        • In 2011 the passage inside the town was named Nobelsky Lane — after the old Petersburg form of the surname.
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        🏛 Sampsonievsky Cathedral
        Санкт-Петербург, Большой Сампсониевский пр., 41
        One of the oldest churches in the city (1728–1740), built in memory of the Poltava victory; next to it is the quiet Sampsonievsky Garden.
        St Sampson’s Cathedral and a quiet garden.
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        Sampsonievsky Cathedral
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sampsonievsky Cathedral
        © Alexey Komarov · CC BY 3.0
        • In 1710 a wooden Church of St Sampson the Hospitable was consecrated here — the Poltava victory was won on his day.
        • The first architects of the city — Domenico Trezzini, Andreas Schlüter and Le Blond — are buried in the churchyard.
        • Volynsky, Khrushchov and the architect Yeropkin, executed in 1740, lie within the fence; their 1885 monument has an epitaph by Ryleyev.
        • In 1820 Israel Blank, Lenin's maternal grandfather, was baptised here and given the name Alexander.
        • The cathedral architect's name is unknown: Pietro and Giuseppe Trezzini or Mikhail Zemtsov are named.
        • The cathedral opened as a museum in 2000, and in 2017 it was handed to the Church.
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        🍜 Lenpoligrafmash
        наб. реки Карповки, 5
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        Across Grenadiersky Bridge to a loft cluster in a former factory.
        🍴 A former factory on the Karpovka that became a technology park and a quarter of cafés and restaurants. What to order: steaks and sausages of their own making at Beefzavod, Neapolitan pizza at Master and Margarita, noodles at Aziaty.

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