South-west of St. Petersburg is a part of the city located south of the Obvodny Canal. From the east it is limited by a branch of the Baltic Railway, from the west by the Gulf of Finland.
Metro
The metro is the best way to get to most of the attractions
in the southwest of the city. Recommended stations are 1
(Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya) line Narvskaya, 1 (Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya) line
Kirovsky Zavod, 1 (Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya) line Avtovo.
By car
41A007 Petergofskoe highway is a highway that starts in the southwestern
part of the city and runs along the southern coast of the Gulf of
Finland. Connects St. Petersburg with Strelna, Peterhof, Lomonosov,
Bolshaya Izhora, Sosnovy Bor, Ust-Luga.
A180 Tallinn highway is a
highway starting in the southwestern part of the city. Connects St.
Petersburg with Krasnoye Selo, Ropsha, Kingisepp, Ivangorod, Narva,
Tallinn.
1 Narva triumphal gates, Stachek pl. 1. Wed–Sun 11:00–17:00. 150₽,
preferential 100₽. The gates were installed in 1834 in memory of the
heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812 according to the project of Stasov.
They are an arch 30 meters high, decorated with figures of warriors and
the chariot of Glory. At the top of the Narva Gates there is a small
museum dedicated to the war of 1812 and the history of the creation of
the monument.
2 Monument to Govorov (On Stachek Square in the center
of the tram ring).
3 Park Ekateringof. Ekateringof Park is located
on an island formed by the channels of the Yekateringofka and
Tarakanovka rivers. Initially, the park was laid out on the orders of
Peter I in 1711. The palace that belonged to Catherine I was located on
the territory of the park. At present, only the foundation has been
preserved from the palace. The park has ponds, tennis courts,
attractions, as well as the so-called. "Molvinskaya Column", considered
a reduced copy of the Alexander Column.
4 Epiphany Church.
5 Monument to the Baltic sailors.
6 Monument to Kirov. Located on
the Kirovskaya Shchasha.
7 Kirovsky District Council, Stachek Ave.
18.
8 Garden on January 9th. January 9th Garden is a landscape park.
Located between Stachek Avenue, Tikhomirovskaya Street and Marshal
Govorov Street.
9 Monument to the Heroic Komsomol.
10 Monument
to A. Marinesko, Stachek Ave., 67k3.
11. Tank-winner KV-85, Stachek
Ave., 106.
12 Monument "Siege Tram", Stachek Ave., 108-a. It is
located in front of the entrance to the tram park 8 named after I. E.
Kotlyakov, which in 1916-1929 was called the Knyazhevo depot of the
Oranienbaum electric line.
13 Alexandrino Park. Alexandrino Park
arose at the beginning of the 19th century and includes the parks of the
former estates of Aleksandrino (northern part) and Ulyanka (southern
part), which in the second half of the 18th century belonged to the
state and military leader Ivan Chernyshev, and in the middle of the 19th
century were bought by Count Dmitry Sheremetev. In the middle of the
19th century, a landscape park was created in the Alexandrino estate
(architects Nikolai Benois, K. Müller and others).
14 Polezhaevsky
park. It occupies a plot of 156 hectares between Peterhof Highway,
Prospect Marshal Zhukov, Avangardnaya Street and Prospect Veteranov,
thus forming a trapezoid. The main objects of the park are connected
with the Great Patriotic War and the blockade. Alley of Glory is a
memorial complex consisting of two obelisks and alleys of 900 birches
connecting them, which symbolize nine hundred days of blockade.
15 South-Primorsky Victory Park (park of the 60th anniversary of the
Victory). South Seaside Park (until 1991 - named after V.I. Lenin) is a
large park between Peterhof Highway, Valor Street, Marshal Zakharov
Street and the Dudergof Canal. The park was created in 1960-1970 for the
centenary of V. I. Lenin by a team led by architect A. G. Lelyakov.
Here, under the littorina terrace, there was a swamp. In the park there
is a fountain of 60 Victory, a Monument to Lenin on a hill, attractions,
a playground, which is the diploma work of graduates of the A. L.
Stieglitz Academy of Art and Industry.
16 Novoznamenka Park. Park
around the estate of Chancellor Mikhail Vorontsov on the Peterhof road.
One of the few surviving, albeit with subsequent alterations, examples
of a country estate of the Elizabethan Baroque (with elements of
classicism new to Russia). Currently, the manor house is occupied by a
private school.
17 Pine meadow park. It is limited from the south by
the Baltic branch of the Oktyabrskaya railway, from the east by pilot
Pilyutov street, from the north by Veteranov Avenue, from the west by
the Mitkazi (Sosnovka) river. It serves as the boundary of mass urban
development. History Until the beginning of the 18th century, this place
was predominantly a coniferous forest, stretching south to the area of
the Volkhonskoye Highway and west to the area of the village of
Volodarsky. At the end of the XVIII and XIX centuries. the park
represented a whole garden and park ensemble with the Novo-Znamenka
estate and started from the homestead hospital (modern Higher Police
School). The river Sosnovka bordering the park from the west was turned
into a system of ponds in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In the
north, the regular manor park of Vorontsova Dacha was located, and in
the south, under A. L. Naryshkin, a landscape park was arranged in the
English manner: straight diagonal paths were laid, graceful canals were
dug, diagonal and curved paths were drawn.
Fortified area
"Izhora"
During the Great Patriotic War, a powerful line of defense
of the southern outskirts of the city, called the Izhora Fortified Area,
passed through the territory of the modern Nevsky, Frunzensky, Moscow
and Kirov regions. During the war, due to mass residential development
in these areas, the line of fortifications was liquidated, only a part
of the long-term firing structures - artillery and machine-gun bunkers -
only about 60. Some of the bunkers are currently improvised monuments,
others are in an abandoned form. The total length of the defense line
approximately corresponds to the route of the modern Glory Avenue,
Tipanova Street and Leninsky Prospekt.
Museums
1 Railway Museum (Museum of Russian Railways) , Library
per. 4 k2. Wed–Mon 10:00–18:00. 300₽, preferential 100₽. An excellent
railway museum, partly located in the historical building of the
locomotive depot near the Baltic Station. Lots of locomotives, wagons
and other equipment, interesting multimedia installations, sculptural
compositions, a good themed gift shop.
2 Museum Narva Zastava, Ivan
Chernykh st. 23. Mon–Sat 10:00–17:00. 200₽, preferential 150₽.
3 Manor Kiryanovo (branch of the Narva Zastava Museum), Stachek pr. 45.
Mon–Sat 10:00–17:00. 200₽, preferential 150₽.
4 Museum of History and
Technology of the Kirov Plant, Stachek pr. 72. Mon–Sat 09:00–17:30.
5
Museum Anna Akhmatova Silver Age, st. Avtovskaya, 14 (390 m from Avtovo
metro station). ☎ +7 (812) 785-04-42. Mon-Thu: 10.00-18.00 (ticket
office until 17.00) Fri: 10.00-17.00 (ticket office until 16.00) Sat:
10.00-16.30 (ticket office until 15.40). 70 rubles
6 Museum of
Oranela, Stachek pr. 91. Located in the former transformer substation of
the Oranienbaum electric line.
1 SEC "Continent", Stachek Ave., 99. ☎ +7 (812) 333-12-00. 10:00 -
22:00. The complex has a cinema, children's slot machines, various
shops.
2 SEC "Pearl Plaza" , Petergofskoe sh., 51A. ☎ +7 (812)
600-03-22 +7 (812) 600-04-22. 10:00 - 22:00. The complex has cafes and
restaurants, a cinema, children's slot machines, and various shops.
1 Krupsky, st. Leni Golikova, 4 (metro station "Prospect
Veteranov"). ☎ +7 (812) 928-08-12,. Mini-hotel 2**+
2 Hostel Narva,
Staro-Petergofsky prospekt, 26, letter B. ☎ +7 (961) 801-78-71. Rooms:
10, Room price: 200–1500 rubles