Ascension Avenue lasts 1770 meters. He takes his origin from another highway. Its name is Admiralteysky Prospekt. The street crosses the Isaac Square, the Moika River and the Griboedov Canal and ends at the Fontanka River. There she goes to Izmailovsky Prospekt. On the site of the Ascension Railway at the beginning of the 18th century there was a road leading from the Admiralty Fortress to Narva and Pskov.
Ascension and Nevsky Prospekt along with Gorokhovaya Street form the so-called "Neva Trident". These three trunks fly away from the Admiralty building with fan rays . Initially, the construction of these streets was carried out as a basis for the implementation of the architectural project for the construction of the city. The creation of all three highways took place simultaneously. The name of the prospectus on the city map was approved by Empress Anna Ioannovna in April 1738. But at that time it sounded different. It was Voznesenskaya promising street, which ended at the Moika River. Before Fontanka it was officially extended only in 1939. In everyday life the abbreviated street name Voznesenskaya prospect was used, and only after 1775 it was called Voznesensky Prospekt. At the end of the XVIII century, there was another version of the highway name - the 3rd Admiralteyskaya Street. Nevsky and Gorokhovaya were called respectively the 1st and 2nd Admiralty. There was another name for the prospect - Krasnaya Street. After the construction on the highway of the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, she became Ascension. During the Soviet period, from 1923 to 1991, the street was called Mayorova Avenue. Peter Mayorov tragically died during the counter-revolutionary insurgency in Samara in 1919. He received the title of Hero of the Civil War posthumously, and his name was called the prospectus.
A very famous street was often mentioned in well-known literary works. For example, Voznesensky Prospect St. Petersburg is the residence of Ivan Yakovlevich - a barber from Nog Gogol. Dostoevsky also mentioned this street in his works. His character from the novel "Humiliated and Injured" - Jeremiah Smith - lived in one of the houses of the famous highway. Prospect Voznesensky, whose photo reflects the unusual beauty of its buildings, is distinguished by unique architectural creations of famous masters. For example, the street takes its start from the Lobanov-Rostovsky house, created under the project of Auguste Montserrat. In another way it is called a "house with lions". It is often found in the writings of famous writers and poets. So, one of the marble lions saved Eugene from the Bronze Horseman during the flood in St. Petersburg. Another famous house is located opposite the building, in which in 1881 the headquarters of the People's Will settled. The undoubted attraction of the avenue is the Ascension Bridge. The great writer F.M. Dostoevsky. The novel "Crime and Punishment" reflects many events that unfolded directly on the bridge and around it. He was a favorite place for walking Rodion Raskolnikov.
In the restoration of historical names of urban sites Voznesensky Prospekt in 1991 returned its historical name.