Vasilyevsky Island: from the Metro to the Mining Institute
A walk through the historic center with architectural and industrial landmarks
Stories along the route
Горный институт (станция метро) · 0.0 km
You're standing at the entrance to a metro station that opened just recently — on December 27, 2024. This is Gorny Institut, and for Vasilievsky Island it's already the third metro station.
Василеостровская фабрика-кухня · 0.1 km
Before you stands a building conceived as a giant kitchen for an entire district. In the late 1920s, when the country was just building a new everyday life, it was decided here, on Vasilyevsky Island, to feed workers lun…
Дом Евангелия (Санкт-Петербург) · 0.3 km
Before you stands the house that threw open its doors to Petersburg's Baptist community in December 1911. This building was called the House of the Gospel, and it became a true spiritual center on Vasilievsky Island.
Памятник студентам и преподавателям Ленинградского Горного института · 0.9 km
Before you stands a monument that doesn't shout — it speaks in silence. It appeared here in 1976, but it is dedicated to those who never returned from the fronts of the Great Patriotic War and did not survive the siege o…
Санкт-Петербургский горный университет · 0.9 km
Before you stands not just a building, but the place where Russia's mining history began. Picture it: 1773, Empress Catherine II signs a decree, and here on Vasilievsky Island the country's first higher technical institu…
Памятник героям-пожарным Ленинграда · 1.4 km
You are standing in front of a monument you might not even notice unless you know where to look. But right here, on Bolshoy Prospekt, opposite the fire station, a story of courage stands frozen — one that few people spea…