Professora Popova St., 41/5, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197376
In the area of Kirpichny Lane on the Moika Embankment, there was originally a pier where barges with bricks were unloaded (hence the name of the lane). On the left side of Bolshaya Morskaya Street in the Petrine era, there was the Sea Market – here were the meat and fish stalls.
At the end of the 1730s, stone baths appeared here. And in the 1740s, a one-story house with a basement and 12 windows facing Bolshaya Morskaya (Bolshaya Gostinaya) was built. This was one of the largest houses on the street. A hundred years later, in the 1840s, the house was rebuilt into a five-story building.
Memorial plaque: from 1930 to 1935, Alexey Nikolayevich Kosygin, a prominent figure of the Communist Party and the Soviet state, studied and graduated from the Textile Institute in this building.
In 1915, construction began on this site for the Russian Bank building. According to the original design, it was supposed to be an Art Nouveau style building with marble and granite cladding. But the year 1917 stopped the construction, and the building was not completed.
The unfinished building stood until the 1920s, becoming a refuge for homeless children and stray cats.
In 1929, the building was transferred to the Textile Institute.
Sources:
https://www.citywalls.ru/house2263.html
