The right bank of the Neva

Bolshaya Okhta

The area on the right bank of the Neva River and to the north of the Okhta River. Older features surviving here include the Bolsheokhtinskoe Cemetery and several factory complexes. The embankment section was built up during the 1940s and 1950s.

Malaya Okhta

The region on the right bank of the Neva River and to the south of the Okhta River. It’s linked to the center by the picturesque Peter the Great and Alexander Nevsky bridges (the latter was the longest in the city prior to the construction of the Bolshoi Obukhovsky Bridge). Malaya Okhta was built over, for the most part, with Stalinist housing buildings. The area also features a small Old Believers’ cemetery, the Malookhtinskoe.

Vesyoly Posyolok

A residential area on the right bank of the Neva, built up during the 1970s and the 1980s. The main thoroughfares are Ulitsa Dybenko and Prospect Bolshevikov. The main attraction is the vast Ice Palace, an ice-skating rink that doubles as an immensely popular pop and rock concert venue.

Rzhevka-Porokhovie

The north-eastern outskirts of the city. Prior to the revolution this was a separate settlement – the workers’ village of the state’s Porokhovoi (Gunpowder) Factory. From that era survives the Dacha Bezobrazovykh and the Ilya Prorok Church. Some original wooden constructions can be found here, but for the most part the area is covered with architecture of the 1970s-1980s. The area is not at present prestigious, though its popularity is growing as the ring road nears completion, meaning that a section of the new highway will pass through here.