Nevsky Prospekt

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Coordinates: 59°55′54″N 30°21′10″E / 59.9318°N 30.3527°E / 59.9318; 30.3527

The avenue near the Nicholas Station, 1890s

The avenue near the Anichkov Palace, early 1900s

Nevsky Prospekt seen at night

Nevsky Prospekt (Russian: Не́вский проспе́кт), or the Nevsky Avenue, is the main street in the city of St Petersburg. Planned by Peter the Great as beginning the road to Novgorod and Moscow, the avenue runs from the Admiralty to the Moscow Railway Station and, after making a turn at Vosstaniya Square, to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. The chief sights include the Rastrelliesque Stroganov Palace, the huge neoclassical Kazan Cathedral, the Art Nouveau Bookhouse (Dom Knigi), half a dozen 18th-century churches, a monument to Catherine the Great, an enormous 18th-century shopping mall, a mid-19th-century department store, the Russian National Library, and the Anichkov Bridge with its horse statues. The feverish life of the avenue was described by Nikolai Gogol in his story "The Nevsky Prospekt". Fyodor Dostoevsky often employed the Nevksy Prospekt as a setting within his works, such as Crime and Punishment and The Double: A Petersburg Poem. During the early Soviet years (1918–44) it was known as the Avenue of the 25th of October, alluding to the day of the October Revolution.

The Nevsky today functions as the main thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg. The majority of the city's shopping and nightlife, as well as the most expensive apartments, are located on or right off of the Nevsky Prospekt.

The street is served by the stations Nevsky Prospekt, Gostiny Dvor, Mayakovskaya, Ploshchad Vosstaniya and Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo of Saint Petersburg Metro.

Water system of Ligovsky Canal

legend     Dudergofskoye lake         Dudergofka River     1718-1721 To Moskovskoye s.    Three highways interchange    Ring Road To Bronka Three highways interchange    Dachnaya street Three highways interchange    Diameter To sea port terminal         To Predportovaya     To Ulyanka, Ligovo To Predportovaya     To Leninsky Prospect To Predportovaya     To Leninsky Prospect To Konstitutsii square    Leninsky Pr. To Leninsky Metro             Krasnenkaya River To Konstitutsii square    Krasnoputilovskaya To Avtovo Moscow Gate Square   Moskovsky Prospekt Tsarskoselskaya Railway    Kubinskaya Street Obvodny Y. V. Aqueduct    Aviatorov Pound Znamenskya Square   Nevsky Prospekt Pounds     Fontanka River    Panteleymonovsky Aqueduct    Fountains of Summer garden Pounds in Tauride garden     Steam pump     Water inlet 1720s Neva River   Moyka River

[edit] See also

• List of upscale shopping districts

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Nevsky Prospekt

• Nevsky Prospekt project — site for tourists
• Comprehensive English site about the Nevsky Prospekt
• Night views of the Nevsky Avenue
• Foreign churches of the Nevsky
• Palaces on the Nevsky Prospekt
• Vintage Postcards of Nevsky Prospekt

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