In front of the building there is a monument to Georgi Plekhanov. The founder of the social democratic movement in Russia.

RIGHT - the small pink-and-white two-storied building dates from the early 19^th century. It used to house the Free Economic Society, which was initiated by rich landlords in 1765 to spread useful agricultural and industrial information. The Society functioned till the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

This section of Moscow Prospect was built up in the second half of the 19^th century. The buildings here are mostly former tenants' houses. They were built very close to each other, with tiny inner yards. Apartments were always overcrowded, but very profitable for the landlords.

The Obvodnv (Bypass) Canal was dug out in the early 19^th century as a derivation canal to derive excess water from the Neva during the floods. It is 5.5 miles long. In the mid-19^th century it was an important transport waterway, and served as a boundary between the city centre and suburban districts of workers' settlements.

RIGHT - crossing the Bypass Canal, you can see the Russian Orthodox church of Resurrection (1908, Grimm and others). It was built in the early 20^th century to imitate ancient Russian churches if the 17^th century.

RIGHT - the 19^th century yellow building of the former stockyard and abbatoir (1825, Charlemagne). Since the 1930s , the building has housed a dairy factory.

This district was formerly known as Moscow Outpost. In the 19^th century, this was an industrial section of the city.

After the railways to Tsarskoe Selo and to Moscow were constructed in the middle of the 19^th century, this avenue lost its former importance as an official road. More and more industrial enterprises and warehouses began to appear here. The developing industries attracted labour force and very soon the former official road was built up with numerous dirty huts. The road fell into neglect; it was hardly illuminated and people threw garbage into the dirty gutters on both sides of it. About 50,000 workers lived here with their families; there were 18 churches and 72 taverns in this and adjoining streets.

RIGHT - the Moscow Outpost district was also famous for its numerous dumps. The biggest one, which was known as "the hot field", was located on the site of the yellow apartment houses constructed in the 1930s according to the Master Plan of the reconstruction of this area.

LEFT - the dark grey building of the Palace of Furs (the 1930s, Fridman), constructed for international fur auction sales. The first fur auction was held in 1931.

LEFT - the former Novodevichii Convent (mid-19^th century, Yefimov). The graveyard of the convent is the burial place of many famous Russians (Nekrasov, Tyutchev, Vrubel, Botkin etc.).

RIGHT - the dark grey building of an Entertainment Centre, constructed by workers of the Skorokhod Shoe Factory in 1931. They built it in one year in their free time.

The square with the triumphal arch was formerly surrounded with an iron fence. There was an outpost, and guards checked travellers' papers.

The Moscow Triumphal Arch was put up (1838, Stasov) to commemorate Russia's victories over Turkey and Persia in the war of 1828-1829. The arch is said to be the biggest cast-iron structure in the world. It is decorated with martial symbols.

RIGHT - in the second half of the 19^th century this area was beyond the city limits .and many industrial enterprises were built here. The Skorokhod Shoe Factory is the oldest one in Russia, founded in 1832.

RIGHT - the building next door is another factory which produces railway cars and cars for subway trains. It was founded in 1873 to make horse-cars.

RIGHT - the dark grey building of the district government. It was designed in 11 ic typical style of the 1930s.

RIGHT & LEFT - one of the biggest industrial enterprises of the country, the Electrosila, The original plant was established in 1911 and produced electric motors and transformers. At present, the Electrosila manufactures most of the generators and turbines for all big power projects of Russia.

The apartment houses on both sides of the street here were- founded in the 1930s, but completed after the war. The street was badly damaged during WWII and many buildings here had to be built anew.

LEFT- Victory Park, one of the largest public parks of the city. It was laid out in October 1945 to commemorate the victory over Nazism. Thousands of the city residents took part in the foundation of the park.

RIGHT - opposite the park there is a monument to the prominent 19^th century

democratic philosopher Nikolai Chernyshevskv.

behind the monument there is the "Rossia" hotel for 600 guests.

RIGHT - the huge grey building constructed for the Russian National Library.

In the 1930s it was planned to shift here the city's administrative centre and Moscow Square was designed as the central square of the city.

LEFT - the monumental building in the square was constructed in 1941 (Trotsky) as the main administrative building of the city. The facade is decorated with the hammer and sickle, the state emblem of the USSR. At present the building accommodates an enterprise.

In front of the building there is a monument to Lenin unveiled in 1970.

UIGHT & LEFT - the two identical buildings on both sides of the street are apartment houses with the district department store on the ground floor and .иlists' studios on the top floor. They were built in the 1960s (Speransky).

Moscow Prospect is closed up by Victory Square with the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad during WWII. The monument was built in 1975. The money for its construction was raised by donations from people all over the country. It symbolically represents the broken ring of the German blockade with the bronze figures of defenders of Leningrad.

RIGHT - the "Pulkovskava" hotel for 1,500 guests.

In the 18^th and 19^th centuries, there was an outpost where travellers' papers were checked. In the early 18^th century, a small palace was built here for the Empress to rest on her way to Tsarskoe Selo. In the second half of the 18^th century the palace fell into neglect and later, was pulled down,

RIGHT - the greenhouses of the "Leto" company, where they grow vegetables such as cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce etc.

RIGHT - the road to the airport. The present-day international airport building was originally constructed in the 1950s (it is being reconstructed). The domestic airport building dates from the 1970s.

STRAIGHT ahead there are Pulkovo Hills, which are the highest point south of St Petersburg (75 m above the sea level). The building on top of the hill is the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, which has been the main astronomical observatory of the country since 1839. In the 19^th century when it was opened it became known as the "astronomical capital of the world". In September 1941 it was at the front line of the Leningrad defence, and suffered badly from bombing and gunfire. Restoration work began immediately after the war and in May 1945 the Observatory was reopened.

It was here that during WWII the Nazi troops were stopped in 1941 and then defeated in 1944. On the hill slope, there is a common grave of the defenders of Leningrad.

LEFT - the pavilion was used as a drinking trough for horses in old days.

RIGHT - a monument to Alexander Pushkin.

The Kuzminka River was the front line of the Leningrad defence from 1941 to 1944 (it is 15 km away from Palace Square). The Soviet troops and the Nazis held the opposite banks of the river, with a distance of just 100m between them.

LEFT - two memorial antitank guns of WWII.

RIGHT - an obelisk put up to commemorate the liberation of the town of Pushkin in 1944.