Suvorovsky prospect - the largest highway in St. Petersburg

Suvorovsky Prospekt is one of the largest thoroughfares of St. Petersburg, extending to the Proletarskaya Dictatorship Square. The highway was built in the middle of the XVIII century. The street at "the Elephant court yard", on a place of which the modern hotel "October" today is located.
The houses are numbered on the street from Nevsky Prospekt. At the end of the 18th century Suvorovsky Prospekt was an ordinary country road leading to the Neva. It led elephants from the zoo (Elephant Court) to the watering place. The zoo contained fourteen elephants, which in 1741 the queen was presented with a Persian check. Residents of St. Petersburg came here to walk and admire the unseen animals. Over time, a new expression appeared in the vocabulary "wandering around without a cause" - "loitering". At a time when the road entered the city limits, it was called a sandy street from the name of the district in which it passed. The territory near Suvorov highway in the past was called Sands, due to the fact that in this part of the city of St. Petrburg there were large marine sand deposits. In 1752, these dry places were equipped with a settlement called "Office of the building of houses and gardens," and later there were eight streets running parallel. Later, in the center of the settlement, a Christmas church was built, making the whole area known as Christmas. In the period from 1802 to 1830 the route was the Konno-Guards.

In 1900, a century after the death of A.V. Suvorov, in honor of the commander on the street Elephant in the Academy of the General Staff was temporarily opened a museum. Today the Military Communications Academy is located here. In 1904, near this avenue in the house number 41-6 on Kirochnaya Street was established a permanent museum. It was at that time that the highway was called Suvorovsky Prospekt. Part of the modern route from the 9th Soviet street to the Smolny Palace for some time was called "passage to the Smolny Monastery." In the 19th century the road was called differently. It was both the Middle and Elephant Street, called it the Great Avenue. At the beginning of the 20th century the mainline was extended to Nevsky Prospekt. In length, it occupies a distance of about two kilometers. From 1923 to 1944 the street was called Sovetskiy Prospekt, due to the fact that its direction was to Smolny, which housed the Petrograd Soviet. On its way, Suvorovsky Prospect St. Petersburg intersects with almost 20 streets, among them nine Soviet. The construction of the avenue was actively conducted at the junction in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mostly, apartment houses were built here. In total there are 67 houses on Suvorov Avenue, including buildings with cafes and restaurants, household and food shops, banks, beauty salons, dental clinics. In addition, there are numerous government and administrative institutions. Suvorovsky Prospect today consists of old mansions, harmoniously combined with modern buildings. It is one of the most important highways of St. Petersburg, which connects the area of the Proletarian dictatorship with the Smolny Palace and the Vosstaniya Square.