Vasenko Street

Vasenko Street in Pavlovsk runs from May First Street to Pravda Street and was named in 1934 after the engineer-aerologist and stratostat designer A. B. Vasenko. Since March 16, 1929, Andrey Vasenko worked at the Pavlovsk Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory, which later became the Aerological Institute. On this street is house No. 3 — the Zwerner House, built in the 1840s according to the design of architect I. Ya. Potolov. Vasenko died on January 30, 1934, in the crash of the stratostat "Osoaviakhim-1," whose gondola fell near the village of Potizh-Ostrog, and at the crash site his pocket watch was found with its hands stopped at 16 hours 21 minutes.