Millionnaya Street

Millionnaya Street (Russian: Миллионная улица), a street on the left bank of the Neva in the Central District of St. Petersburg in Russia, runs - parallel to the Palace Quay - from the Swan Canal to the Palace Square.

Significant buildings on Millionnaya Street include the New Hermitage Museum, the Chief Pharmacy, the Marble Palace, and the New Michael Palace.

In the first half of the 18th century, the area of the current Millionnaya Street was the "German Settlement", the area in St. Petersburg where foreigners lived.

Close to the Field of Mars and the current marketplace area was a Greek suburb.

In Soviet times the street was named Khalturina Street, in honor of the Narodnik revolutionary Stepan Khalturin, who detonated a bomb in the Winter Palace in 1880 that caused 67 casualties (but failed to kill the Czar).