Moskovsky Avenue
Dark blue: Moskovsky Prospekt, (The street continues south).
Purple: Ligovsky Prospekt
Brown: Obvodny Canal
Pink: Fontanka
Green: Nevsky Prospekt
Yellow: Palace Square
Moskovsky Prospekt is a north-south avenue in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The street runs from Hay Square and Sennaya Street, to the Victory Square, where it becomes Pulkovo Highway and Moscow Highway. In doing so, it passes through Fontanka River, Zagorodny Prospekt, Obvodny Canal, and Ligovsky Prospekt. It is named for and leads to Moscow, in the early 19th century, the street was known as Zabalkansky Prospekt, probably as it was in the direction to Balkans.
Moskovsky Prospekt is home to the Moscow Triumphal Arch, Victory Square; refers to the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War. This kind of square is common in a lot of cities in the former Soviet Union. The street is also home to Victory Park; a park that refers to the same victory.
The street is home to Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Russia, the institute was founded in 1828, and it currently has around 5000 students. Among people who worked and studied here is; Dmitri Mendeleev, Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, and Abram Fedorovich Ioffe.