Vasilievsky Island

Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg was historically the largest island in the Neva Delta before the emergence of Nameless Island and the construction of the Obvodny Canal, and it is now the second largest by area. In the 18th century, according to the design of Jean-Baptiste Le Blond, a residential quarter for French people was formed here, which provided for a royal palace with a garden that was never built. The island housed the Academy of Sciences, the Library of the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Arts, the Mining Institute, the Naval Cadet Corps, and the University, and from 1897 to 1901, a telephone factory of the Ericsson company operated at house number 9 on the 20th Line. The formation of the "sea facade" on the western part of the island was led by architect S. I. Evdokimov, and later worked on by V. A. Sokhin and V. N. Sokolov.