From Plekhanov to Mendeleev: Science and Technology near the Technological Institute
A walk through the historic center of St. Petersburg: monuments, institutes, and early 20th-century houses
Stories along the route
Технологический институт (станция метро) · 0.0 km
You're standing at a station that can do something no other one in Saint Petersburg can — switch lines without leaving the train.
Всероссийский НИИ метрологии имени Д. И. Менделеева · 0.8 km
Before you stands not just an institute, but a true fortress of precision. This is where the standards are kept against which the whole country calibrates its instruments.
Главная палата мер и весов · 1.1 km
Before you stands the building that once served as the supreme arbiter of all weights and measures in a vast empire.
Памятник Г. В. Плеханову (Санкт-Петербург) · 1.2 km
Before you stands one of the very first monuments that appeared in Petrograd already under Soviet rule. Imagine: it's 1925, the country is only beginning to get used to the new order, and by the walls of the Technologica…
Санкт-Петербургский государственный технологический институт · 1.2 km
You are standing in front of the building where chemistry became not just a science, but a destiny. This is the Saint Petersburg State Technological Institute, or, as it is affectionately called, Tekhnolozhka.
Доходный дом Латышской церкви · 1.6 km
This house is a real rebel among St. Petersburg buildings. Imagine: the city authorities were against its construction, because according to the plan, an expanded thoroughfare was supposed to run through here, not an apa…