Petrogradsky Island

[1] Finnish and Swedish farms added to a large Russian settlement, continuing to develop the island in the 17th century.

The administrative center of Saint Petersburg moved to Vasilievsky Island in the 1720s, and in the 1730s, stone buildings north of the Kronverk were banned.

[2] One of the earliest main avenues, dating from the 1730s, is the Bolshoy Prospekt, crossing the island from the northeast to the Tuchkov Bridge in the southwest.

The Yamburgsky, Koporsky, St. Petersburg, and Belozersky regiments had their quarters on the island at that time, and the new road served to connect them all.

Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy (13 Zhdanovskaya street) is a polytechnical military educational institution and space research center.

[2] Of historical interest is the cruiser Aurora, the oldest commissioned ship in the Russian Navy and a symbol of the October Revolution of 1917.