[5] The Saint Petersburg street had its preceding history under a different name as Flugov pereulok since early 19 century, while its Moscow namesake exists since 1965 and is named not after the town (railway station) itself, but after[6] the Soviet Army unit that liberated the settlement and was for that inducted into Guards and in 1946 got its honorific Kantemirovskaya - in full, 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya of the Order of Lenin and Red Banner Tank Division.

The street in Leningrad, in its turn, lent its name to Kantemirovskiy bridge at its southwest tip connecting the area with more central Petrograd Side of the city.

Located in an outlying industrial area of the city built up with factories and housing for their workers, the street as such has preserved out of its pre-Soviet industrial buildings just a former cotton mill of a merchant of German descent von Hueck (Russified as Гук Guk)[9] and then a British Russian merchant Joseph Cheshire,[10][11] later merged into a joint stock company with Saint Petersburg factories of two other entrepreneurs - Russian lvan Voronin and German Jacob Lutsch, nationalised after the Bolshevik Revolution and renamed Kransniy mayak [ru] (Rus.

[13] After the textile factory failed in post-Soviet time, its manufacturing buildings were refurbished[14] to house a part of Saint Petersburg campus of a post-1991 Russian university Higher School of Economics.

For retail consumers the factory produced gas lighters and was entrusted to design the torch[18] for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games that were held in Soviet Union in Moscow, Leningrad, Tallinn etc.

[22] Other extant structures in the street date back to 1930s (House of Specialists [ru]; dormitories for students of Polytechnic Institute), 1950s, and 1970s (factories in its western part).

Since late 1920s the area around the street was given a new development, being filled with apartment houses and public facilities for workmen and professionals with families, and with technical students' dormitories.

Now the institute, founded before the Russian Revolution and named in Soviet years after Mikhail Kalinin, the nominal head of state under Stalin, is officially titled Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

[30] In early 1930s the city block on odd-numbered side of the street immediately east of Lesnoy Prospect was filled with two sets of apartment buildings differing in the degree of built-in conveniences.

In the southern part of the block the 6 residential 5-storeyed buildings of No 59 Lesnoy Prospect avenue constructed for the district textile mills workers didn't have what their nextdoor neighbors from the three houses of No.

61 Lesnoy received as members of a higher strata of professionals: flats not shared, running hot water and bathtubs with showers in them, lifts, rubbish chutes etc.

These specially designed better conditions were provided for by the national government decision Archived 2020-07-16 at the Wayback Machine of 1932 to build apartment houses for specialists - several in each of a number of big cities.

[31] No 61 by Lesnoy Prospect / 21 by Kantemirovskaya Street House of Specialists accommodated dozens of significant engineers, factory managers, scientists in various fields, and several cultural figures.

[34] It features a large auditorium in its from semicircular part, two gyms at the back, and during the 2000s refurbishment its sports grounds were turned into a soccer and track and field stadium.

Its rural area cut off from the besieged Leningrad by enemy German lines was controlled by the Soviet guerrilla troops and managed to collect and deliver to the starving city a food supply train of horse-drawn sleighs in the harsh winter of 1941-42.

Kantemirovskaya street was a part of this plan and as such had its road widened twofold, connected to its east with Marshal Blukher Avenue overland, while the western end of the street reaching Vyborgskaya Embankment [ru] of the Bolshaya Nevka arm of the Neva delta was joined by a new bridge to Apothecary Island of the more central Petrograd Side, giving access over it to Vasilyevsky Island and the left bank of the Neva with the central district of the city.

- Kantemirovsky bridge, Committee for the development of transport infrastructure of St. Petersburg City GovernmentThe bridge connected the Vyborg Side to Petrograd Side, and the new version of trolleybus Route 46[37] originally went over them to the Harbour at the western end of Vasilyevski Island, reaching eastwards the roundabout nearest to the bridge on the Vyborg Side - now Academician Klimov Square, while later the route was replaced with number 31[38] that serves now, without covering Vasilyevski, a shorter western part as far as Sportivenaya metro station, but passed the whole length of Kantemirovskaya Street and turns northward to cover the southern part of Grazhdanskiy Prospect avenue to take to work downtown and back home people along its large Grazhdanka residential neighborhood.