Ligovsky Avenue

Ligovsky Prospekt (Russian: Лиговский проспект) is a street in the historic center of Saint Petersburg. It begins at a T-crossing with Nekrasova Street, runs southwest, crosses Nevsky Prospect next to Moskovsky Railway Station, and ends at the Moscow Triumphal Gate as a T-crossing with Moskovsky Avenue. The name of the street originates from the Liga River, currently the Dudergofka.

Between 1718-25, when Saint Petersburg was the capital of Russia, construction began on the Ligovsky Canal under the direction of Grigory Grigorevich to provide water to the fountains in the Summer Garden.

The road is near the site of the old Novgorod road. The road was called Moskovskaya since 1739, then Naberezhnoy Ligovskogo kanala. In 1892 the street became Ligovskaya Street, and between 1952 and 1956 it was called Stalingradsky Avenue. Since 1956 it has been named of its current name.

Buildings

• No 1 - Gymnasium of Y. G. Gurevich. Built in the Early 19th Century and rebuilt in 1875 by Alexander Dmitrievich Schilling and Vasily Ivanovich Tokarev.

• No. 2-4 - St. Petersburg Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology. Opened in February 1923 under the command of Professor Abram Yakovlevich Sternberg. The building was built in 1869-1871 in the Neo-Gothic style by Rudolf Bogdanovich and Otto Pius Hippius as an evangelical hospital.

• No 6 - Greek Church of St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki. Built in 1861-1865 by Roman Kuzmim. The foundation stone was laid on June 6th 1861 in memory of Demetrius of Thessaloniki. The church was consecrated on November 12th 1865 by Metropolitan Isidore, and was attended by Alexander Gorchakov and the Greek ambassador. The church was restored in 1886 by Andrei Afanasyev. The church closed on January 11, 1939 and subsequently housed a military training centre. The church was hit by a German bomb in World War II, causing the building to remain dilapidated until demolition in 1962. The church is referenced in the poem "A Stop in a Desert" by Joseph Brodsky.

• No 6 - Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall. Built in 1962-1967 by Aleksandr Vladimirovich Zhuk, Valentin Aleksandrovich Kamensky, and Zhan Matveevych Verzhbitsky. A bronze frieze of Vladimir Lenin is above the main entrance, designed by Mikhail Anikushin.

• No 8 - Children's Hospital of Prince P. G. of Oldenburg, 1860s-1890s. The main building wa built in 1866-1869 by Caesar Albertovich.

• No 9 - Tenant house of 1879-1880 by Christian Tatsky.

• No 13 - Shavrin's House. Built in 1829 by Z. F. Krasnopevkov, and rebuilt in 1866 by P. I. Kudryavtsev. It was demolished in 2006-2007 for the construction of the Ligovsky Business Centre, and rebuilt in 2011 by Dmitry Lagutin.

• Nos 24, 26, 30, 34-36, 38, 42 were demolished in 1996 for the construction of the Saint Petersburg–Moscow railway, but this didn't happen, with the site becoming the Galeria Shopping Mall in 2010.

• No 30 - Galeria Shopping Mall. Built in March 2008-2010 by Grigoriev and Partners, and built by Renaissance Construction, with ICS, IKAB, and FS and engineering consultants, and MACE Ltd as managers. It opened in Late 2010 is the largest mall in historic Saint Petersburg.

• No 35. Apartment building of 1897-1898 by Otton Ludvigovoch Ignatovich.

• No 43-45 - The building of the hotel of V.E. Pestrikov "Metropolitan".1902 by G. S. Gavrilov and 1913 by V. M. Orlov.

• No 44 - Pertsov House. 1910-1911 by Stefan Galenzovsky and Ippolit Aleksandrovich.

• No 47 - Tenement house of F. I. Korovin. 1878 by Aleksandr Vasilevich Ivanov. Graffiti of musician Keith Flint appeared on the building on July 18th 2020, and was painted over in May 2021.

• No 49 - House of I. Anglares (Korovina). Built in 1840 by A. S. Andreev, and rebuilt in 1877 by V. A. Prussakov.

• No 50 - Kokorevsky Warehouses. 1873-1886 for the Northern Insurance Company. The buildings were rebuilt in 1903 by Ivan Merz.

• No 53 - House of Furnished Room. 1911 by Mikhail Lvovich Kritsky.

• No 56 - Malozemova House. Built in 1878 by Vasily Fedorovich von Hecker. The building was demolished in 2017 and is now the Ibis Hotel.

• No 57 - Tenemant house rebuilt in 1840 by Vasily Egorovich Morgan.

• No 58 - Residential building of 1875-1876 by Karl Karlovich Rahau.

• No 60-62 - San Galli Iron Foundry and Mechanical Works. Founded as a blacksmith workshop in 1853 by Franz San Galli. New buildings were later constructed in 1860 by K. F. Feyereysen, and also by Karl Karlovich Rahau, Dmitry Dmitrievich Zaitsev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Dokushevsky, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Gazelmeyer, Ivan Ivanovich Gornostaev and in 1890 by Vladimir Kurzanov. Some buildings were demolished during Soviet times when the factory was named Koperator, and more were demolished in 2008.

• No 61 - House of Dorimedont Dorimedontovich Sokolov. Built in 1882-1883 by Doriment Dorimedontovich Sokolov. The courtyard wings were demolished in 2006, and the house was demolished in November 2007 by Razmach.

• No 63 - Apartment building of V. V. Markozov. Built in 1909 by Evgeny Iosifovich Gontskevich.

• No 65 - Apartment building of M. M. Ekimova. Built in 1913 by Wilhelm Van-der-Gucht.

• No 67 - Apartment building of N. Kuznetsova. Built in 1835 by G. Tkachenko and rebuilt in 1838 by A. V. Kokorev. It was rebuilt again in 1872 by M. A. Makarov.

• No 91 - Apartment building of A. L. Sagalov. Built in 1913-1914 by Aleksandr Lishnevsky and Abram Berlin. The building was inspired by the Pietinena House in Vyborg, and from the general Art Nouveau and Neoclassical styles.. A maternity hospital with 28 rooms later opened in the building, with reconstruction in the 1930s by A. I. Klimov, E. N. Dobrovolsky, N. N. Aistov. The roof caught fire in September 2018 and residents were evacuated.

• No 98 - Tenemant house of 1860 by Pavel Andreyevich Chepyzhnikov.

• No 123 - Former factory of the Late 19th Century, demolished in 2007.

• No 125 - Tenement house of E. L. Peterson. Built in the Early 19th Century and greatly expanded in 1905-1906 by A. L. Lishnevsky.

• No 127 - Mansion of N. S. Ryzhkin. Built in 1883 by Ivan Petrovich Maas. The building was left derelict in Soviet times.

• No 128 - Holy Cross Church. Built in 1748 in the Baroque style, it was rebuilt in 1848-1852 in the Neo-Baroque style by Igor Dimmert.

• No 135 - Apartment building of P. A. Salnikov. Built in 1904 in Art Nouveau style by D. G. Fomichev.

• No 139 - Apartment building of Praskovya Stepanovna Kuritsyna. Built in 1908 in the Art Nouveau style by Boris Yakovlevich Zonn. The building façade was repaired in 2007. The building was purchased by Kirill Yudanov in Early 2017 who renovated the interior of the house.

• No 140 - Derelict house during Soviet era.

• No 146 - Mansion of Aleksandr Petrovich Volkov. Built in 1862 by Vasily Vasilyevich Shtrom. The building was home to the Moscow Volost Government from 1895-1900. The building was restored in 2010-2011 and opened in March of that year by the governor, V. I. Matvienko.

• No 149 - Tenemant house of I. P. Pavlov. Built in 1905 by Boris Yakovlevich Zonn.

• No 153 - Sever Cinema. Built in 1914 by Mikhail Pokorny for A. V. Eliseev. The cinema was the first cinema in Saint Petersburg to be in a standalone cinema building. The cinema was called Pchyolka in 1921-1922, in 1931-1939 it was called Gudok, and since 1951 it was called Sever. The cinema was rebuilt in 1957 with 600 new chairs installed, along with a modern film projection equipment, a new screen and ventilation systems. The cinema closed in 1979, until it re opened in 1992. It was demolished in 2008 to make way for the Ligov Shopping Mall.

• No 164 - Apartment building of 1901 by Fyodor Pavlov.

• No 236 - House of M. P. Kulandina. Built in 1902 by Nikolai Ivanovich Tovstoles.

• No 251 - Tenemant house of N. S. Polotnov. Built in 1911 by Nikolai Ivanovich Tovstoles.

• No 269 - Ligovsky Baths. Built in 1934 in Constructivist style by Nikolai Demkov. The building was rebuilt in 1961.

• No 275 - Tenemant house of Antip Yefremov. Built in 1910-1911 by Nikolai Ivanovich Tovstoles and Alexei Ivanovich Zazersky.

• No 295 - Alexander School of the Craft Society. Built in 1873 by Foma Ivanovich Winterhalter.

Transport

The Ligovsky Prospekt Metro Station opened on December 30, 1991 and was designed by Y. V. Eechko and N. V. Romashkin-Timanov. The station was repaired in 2014, for nearly a year at the cost of 147 million rubles.

A tram line ran down the street between 1915 and January 2007. A new tram line was launched on November 17, 2007. Trolleybus services were launched on the street on June 19, 2023.