Chkalova Street (Gatchina)

Chkalov Street in Gatchina reflects the development of local urban planning from wooden houses of the 18th–19th centuries to Art Nouveau stone mansions, mass housing of the second half of the 20th century, and modern mansions. This street is home to the K. O. Guidi apartment building of 1897 with V. G. Tabunshchikova's women's gymnasium, the residential house of merchant A. I. Gvozdev, and the Shershova house by architect V. V. Klementyev, all protected by the state. Here also stands the residential house of A. P. Sharapov, known as the "house with dolphins," and on the site of the current Ippolitov-Ivanov Children's Music School, the composer Gavriil Lomakin lived from 1867 to 1885.