Zaozyornaya ul., 3, korp. 2  

59.906171, 30.323642 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Sign with five buildings above one of the entrances
Number of windows in the tallest building
14

Историческая справка

The first experimental gas holder was installed in St Petersburg in the summer of 1819 on Aptekarsky Island, starting the era of gas lighting in the city's streets. Gas lanterns were predominantly installed in the main streets of the city — on the outskirts and in the smaller streets oil and an alcohol and turpentine mixture were used for lanterns.
In 1835, the first gas company, The Gas Lighting St. Petersburg Society, was registered. In the same year, the city's infrastructure was modified to provide centralised street lighting: gas was supplied from gas tanks, through long distribution pipes installed underground, to the lampposts. In August 1839 the first gasworks began operations. Lighting gas was produced from English coal, which was curiously cheaper than using Russian coal. The Arsenal factory cast lampposts and the Imperial Porcelain Factory produced lantern shades. 
The appearance of gas holders on the Obvodny Kanal made it possible to illuminate Palace Square, Nevsky prospekt, Sadovaya ulitsa, Gorokhovaya ulitsa, Millionnaya ulitsa and Bolshaya Morskaya ulitsa and Malaya Morskaya ulitsa with gas lanterns.
In 1958, the Capital Light Society built another gas plant on the Obvodny Kanal, with two gas storage towers next to each other, one in the form of a cylinder and the other as a polyhedron. The designs were so successfully developed by engineer Rudolf von Bernhard that one of the gas holders is still an integral part of the Obvodny Kanal architectural ensemble today.  
Unfortunately, their age was short-lived: in addition to the constant financial difficulties of The Gas Lighting St. Petersburg Society, the high cost of producing gas and the low demand from citizens, in the 1880s electrification of the city began to force gas lamps out of the streets of the city. The gas holders began to lose their original purpose, but some have been preserved as a memento of the capital's early gasification era. There are many stories of the successful use of these towers for other purposes: research institutes, concert venues, creative spaces and a planetarium.

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