Gorokhovaya Street

Gorokhovaya Street (Russian: Гороховая улица, romanized: Gorkhovaya ulitsa) is a north-south thoroughfare in the Central Business District of Saint Petersburg.

Continuing south, it crosses the Fontanka River with the Semenovsky Bridge, and ends at Zagorodny Prospect.

The street was planned and laid after the catastrophic fires of 1736 and 1738 destroyed most of the buildings on Admiralteysky Island [ru] of Saint Petersburg.

Both names were connected with the Cheka office headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky situated in house number 2 of the street.

It is featured in several other works of literature, including Gogol's "Diary of a Madman," Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, and Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?.