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Liteyny Avenue (Russian:Литейный проспект,Liteyny prospekt) is a wide avenue in theCentral District ofSaint Petersburg,Russia. The avenue runs fromLiteyny Bridge toNevsky Avenue.^[1]

The avenue originated in 1738 when the forest was cleared to make a trail fromNevsky Prospekt to a foundry (est. 1711) at the banks ofNeva River. The Russian word "liteyny" means "metal casting" as an adjective, hence the street name.

Soon after theOctober Revolution, the avenue was namedProspekt Volodarskogo after the Russian revolutionaryV. Volodarsky. In 1944, the historic name was restored.

• No. 4 – theBig House, formerNKVD building, currently local city government office.^[2]
• No. 14 – the 19th-century Varvara Dolgoruky mansion.
• No. 24 –Muruzi House withJoseph Brodsky apartment.
• No. 36 –Nekrasov Museum.
• No. 37 – Department of Crown Domain ('Dom departamenta udelov'), 1840s,Harold Bosse.^[3]
• No. 42 – formerZinaida Yusupova mansion, currentlySt. Petersburg Institute of International Trade, Economics and Law.
• No. 56 – Mariinsky Hospital (built byGiacomo Quarenghi).

• Zinovieff, Kyril; Hughes, Jenny; FitzLyon, Kyril (2003).The Companion Guide to St Petersburg. WS Bookwell. p. 233.ISBN 1900639408.
• Shvidkovsky, Dmitrii (2007).Russian Architecture and the West. London: Yale University Press. p. 339.ISBN 978-0-300-10912-2.

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