Maxim Gorky Street

Maxim Gorky Street in Sestroretsk, originally named after P. A. Avenarius, traces its history back to Avenarius Street, which ran from the bank of the Sestra River to Ermolovsky Avenue. This street is home to the dacha of collegiate secretary Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochkin from the early 20th century, which during the Soviet era was under the administration of the "Sestroretsk Resort" sanatorium. In 2019, urgent anti-accident works were carried out on this building, but a full reconstruction did not begin due to deviations in the project documentation of the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Monuments of History and Culture. The resort itself, created to increase the income of the Railway Society, became famous for having the largest covered winter swimming pool in Russia, 52 types of procedures, and a Grand Prix at the World Balneological Exhibition in Spa in 1907, and an inscription about the transformation of a desolate area into a resort was still readable on Avenarius's tombstone cross in the 1970s.