Since 1964, the science fiction writer Boris Natanovich Strugatsky (1933-2012) lived in this house. According to him, the events of the novella "A Billion Years Before the End of the World" took place here. On March 2, 2023, a memorial plaque was installed on building No. 4 on Pobedy Street in Saint Petersburg in honor of the famous science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky. He lived in this house from May 12, 1964, until November 19, 2012, until his death. The plaque, visually resembling a book, was created by sculptor Tatyana Karakozova and the designers of the architectural workshop "Soyuz 55".

This was the first cooperative apartment building in Leningrad where the share contribution had to be paid in full at the time of construction. Therefore, in the mid-1960s, this building was popularly called the "house of Jewish millionaires," as most of its residents at that time were wealthy Jewish families. At different times, it was home to lecturers and professors from Leningrad universities, the Vaganova Academy, and the Conservatory, as well as ballet artists. The most famous among them were, of course, B. Strugatsky and I. Ponarovskaya.

I have lived in this house since it was first occupied in 1964 and did not know it was called the "house of Jewish millionaires." The housing cooperative "Mir" was the first in Leningrad; it built two houses: one in the Vyborg district, the other being this one. The site of the house used to be a waste dump for the "Skorokhod" factory, and instead of Varshavskaya Street, there was the Varshavskaya railway line. The basement was supposed to be faced with granite, but either there was initially not enough money or it disappeared somewhere, so the house still stands with an unfinished basement. Indeed, ballet artists, musicians, scientists, senior officers, and trade workers lived in the house. Many had worked for a long time in the Arctic: in Magadan, Norilsk, Igarka, the Kola Peninsula, etc. There were plenty of candidates of sciences and even doctors of sciences: organic chemist Poray-Koshits, radiochemist V.N. Krylov, ... Boris Strugatsky lived in the house, and Irina Ponarovskaya grew up there. But perhaps the most famous resident was the prominent St. Petersburg gangster Vladimir Feoktistov. He behaved quietly in the house. And under the windows stood his BMW with "blatnye" (criminal) license plates 55-55. All apartments were bought outright initially; there were no loans in 1961 when the cooperative was formed. The rent was low because spacious basements were rented out as warehouses. The house still looks just as solid today. But the appearance is probably spoiled by the variously glazed balconies.

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