'Decembrists Island'), known prior to 1926 as Goloday Island (остров Голодай – possibly a corruption of a British merchant name Halliday; the original name in Finnish: Alaissaari, lit.

[2][3] The island, originally low-lying and frequently flooded, all the same was traditionally used as the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery.

In 1911, a British investment company launched a development project on a 1 square-kilometer lot in western Goloday Island, hiring Ivan Fomin and Fyodor Lidval to design a Neoclassical middle-classical neighborhood.

A small part of this project was completed before World War I and the Russian Revolution.

It is connected to the center of the city through Primorskaya station of Saint Petersburg Metro.