Sevkabel Port

Sevkabel Port is a public space for culture and business created as a result of the reorganization of the industrial "Grey Belt" of Vasilyevsky Island harbour in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

[citation needed] In 2017, the management of the factory decided to upgrade the area and make it a public site in Saint Petersburg with access to the sea.

[3][4] As part of the production modernization, the Sevkabel factory has moved its capacities to its shops at Kozhevennaya 39, thus freeing up 20% of its total space for the creation of a cultural and business project.

[5] Sevkabel Port was officially opened in September 2018,[6] but the visitors could attend the first event a month after the start of the renovation – in June 2017.

[7] In the summer of 2019, at the XV Congress of Organization of World Heritage Cities in Krakow, Saint Petersburg was represented by five projects, one of which was Sevkabel Port, which became the winner of the Jean-Paul-L'Allier Prize.

Sevkabel Port is located on the banks of the Neva in Vasilyevsky Island harbour, close to the Maritime Station, a monument to Soviet brutalism.

The other, smaller but adjacent to the river, became a multifunctional area with a convertible amphitheatre, sun loungers, and an ice rink in winter.

The largest production hall, which forms the sea front, includes a multipurpose area, a concert club, and a restaurant on the ground level.

[2] The first of the buildings open to the public, the former cable tare area, has been given a deep portal decorated with "recessed" circle lamps in the wall, allowing light to be cast through the metal.

The laboratory was set up in 1947 under the direction of Chief Engineer and Director Dmitry Bykov, and the generator was created in 1949 for practical testing of scientific developments[13]