- Malookhtinsky pr., 94
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59.922705, 30.406787 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Number of large round columns at the level of the 4th-5th floors
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16
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Historical background
Number 94, Malookhtinsky Prospekt, was built in 1939 against the design of Simonov, Rubanenko and Cherkassky. Like many houses in this quarter built between 1935 and 1950, it is a typical representative of the ‘Stalin’s Empire’. Architectural zest of the houses is monumental arches connecting the adjacent buildings. One theory is that Brodsky’s poem ‘From the Outskirts to the Centre’, lyricising about ‘a thousand arches’ of the Malaya Okhta, is dedicated to this very architectural peculiarity. However, alternative theory suggests that the poem refers to the vaults of the Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge. Be that as it may, to mark the occasion, a small memorial sign to the poet was erected in one of the yards on Ulitsa Stakhanovtsev.
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