Bolshaya Monetnaya St., 16b, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197101
Since the 18th century, there was a settlement of "working people" of the Mint here. The name of this street, as well as the intersecting Malaya Monetnaya Street, originated from it. From 1800 to 1817, the street was called 2nd Monetnaya; at the same time, from the late 18th to the first third of the 19th century, it was called Ospennaya or Bolshaya Ospennaya. The last two names are connected to the fact that in the building located, before the flood of 1824, on the site of the Alexander Lyceum, from 1768 to 1803 there was a Smallpox Vaccination House established by the decree of Catherine II, where the first smallpox vaccinations in Russia were carried out.
From 1923 to 1991, the street was called Skorokhodov Street in honor of the Bolshevik A. K. Skorokhodov. On October 4, 1991, as part of desovietization, its former name Bolshaya Monetnaya was restored.
