Sampsoniyevskoye (Russian: Сампсониевское) is a municipal okrug occupying the southern part of Vyborgsky District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
To its south, within the okrug, over a block of streets there are buildings of dormitories for students mostly of Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University.
The okrug's arms show his namesake - an Old Testament hero Samson, whose figure shown tearing[7] open the mouth of the lion that attacked him was in the 18th century used as a rhetorical symbol of Russian victory over the Swedish empire epitomised in his golden statue in the center of Peterhof palace fountain park.
A new connection with Sweden was established by the entrepreneurial family of Nobel in the second half of the 19th century, who built a factory and living quarters in the territory.
Apartment buildings for families of local factories' workforce were often erected in late 1920s and first half of 1930s in Constructivism style.
Sampsonievskoe municipal okrug border map from
openstreetmap
Flag of Sampsonievskoe (St Petersburg) depicting the biblical
Samson
tearing up the lion that attacked him. The red brick wall in the background is typical of the 19th-century factories' architecture of the area.
Front along the Neva embankment
Main building of S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy facing Academician Lebedev Street
Garden view of the cathedral
Baroque wooden icon screen
Former 18th-century St Sampson's Cathedral churchyard (now a public garden) facing Lesnoy Prospekt avenue with the vandalised in 2000 bronze and granite monument set up in 1995 by the Russian emigre artist
Mikhail Shemyakin
and architect Vyacheslav Bukhayev (
Rus. Вячеслав Бухаев
) to First-builders of Saint Petersburg (
ru:Первостроителям Санкт-Петербурга
) - especially the European architects who designed city's 18th-century layout and landmarks and were buried in this ground. Bronze details such as the full-scale models of drawing desk with
memento mori
(skull), candlestick, 17th-century Dutch chair and wall tablets already stolen. The granite wall with its Gothic arch typical of European architecture, but not Russian, was designed as a wall of an architect's studio with "a window on Europe".
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Original look
on Yandex Images.
Nobel Lane
Pediatric University campus's modern fountain in front of a 19th-century clinic building
Girey Bairov
, famous pediatric surgeon, memorial plaque
Building of the 1929
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Constructivism architectural style former
public kitchen
of Vyborgskiy District
Building 1 of 3 of residential complex The house of Specialists at 61, Lesnoy prospekt, with 1930s' best facilities for scientists, factory management and art workers
Commemorative plaque for radiochemist Professor Vitaliy Khlopin, founder of
Radium Institute
Recreated World War II warning that this side of the street is the more dangerous one during enemy's artillery fire
