Once upon a time the street was called Kamennoostrovskoyexpensive. At that time, Kamenny Island could be reached along Bolshoi Prospect via the Tuchkov Bridge. The status of the avenue Kamennoostrovskaya road received in 1802. Construction of the bridge connecting Kamennoostrovsky Avenue with the center led to the rapid development of the area. The avenue becomes the busiest street of the city.
In 1903, with the construction of the Trinity Bridge, the districtbegan to have good transport accessibility. At this time, beautiful houses are being built according to the designs of famous architects, parks are laid, sidewalks are paved, water supply and sewerage systems are laid. Gradually, the area becomes prestigious and attractive to influential and rich people of that time.
Buildings on the avenue are decorated with numerouscorner turrets crowned with spiers and domes. Decorative elements in the form of balcony lattices, gates and fences emphasize the originality of one of the most beautiful urban avenues. Famous architects worked on the construction of unique houses: Benoit, Lancere, Lindvall, Shuko.
Kamennoostrovsky Avenue was formedmultistage. Initially, the highway was constructed from separate segments. Streets in St. Petersburg, among which was the Kamennoostrovskaya road, were first shown on the city map in 1738. It reflects the first name of the avenue - Bolshaya Ruzheynaya street. In the period from 1771 to 1799, part of the future avenue became known as the road to Kamenny Island. Since 1822, the name of the street - Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, which did not refer to the whole street, but only to its part near Kamenny Island, appeared on the map of St. Petersburg. Since 1867, the entire highway has been called the avenue. The plots that were located along the avenue belonged to merchants, burghers, and retired officers. In the Petersburg press, Kamennoostrovsky Avenue was named the “Eliseevskiye fields of St. Petersburg”. He even began to be called a small part of Paris. At the end of the XIX century, the avenue gradually began to be built up with stone buildings. In 1870 the horse was laid.
Kamennoostrovsky Prospect is built up with tasksexecuted in a variety of architectural styles: classicism, modern, neo-classicism. Since 1918, most of the avenue to the Malaya Nevka River has received the name of Red Dawn Street.
After the death of S.M. Kirov, who lived on the street.Red Dawns in the house number 26, in 1934, the prospect became Kirovsky. In 1935, a large-scale reconstruction was carried out - outdated buildings were demolished, public squares were created on the embankment. In October 1991, its historical name was returned to the prospectus.
Kamennoostrovsky Ave.and today is one of the most beautiful urban highways. This avenue is distinguished by its beautiful and majestic view. Here are located Vyazemsky and Lopukhinsky gardens, as well as the Church of the Nativity with a large park with access to the Bolshaya Nevka.
The history of the famous highway is very closely connectedwith celebrity stories from different cultural eras. SM Kirov, S. Yu. Witte, artist A. I. Raikin, world-famous ballerina Kshesinskaya lived here. The most remarkable building on the avenue is the House with towers. Earlier in this house was a cinema, later the studio of the Leningrad television and the Theater "Experience". Since 1996, this house houses the Theater of Russian Enterprise named after Andrei Mironov.
