Gorokhovaya Street

Gorokhovaya Street (

Central Business District of Saint Petersburg

.

Gorokhovaya Street is one of central Saint Petersburg's major thoroughfares, extending from the

Semenovsky Bridge, and ends at Zagorodny Prospect

.

History

The street was planned and laid after the catastrophic fires of 1736 and 1738 destroyed most of the buildings on

Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg: Nevsky Prospect (known as Bolshoy, The Larger, Prospect) and Voznesensky Avenue (known as Maliy, The Lesser, Prospect).^[1]

In 1770, the street received its present name Gorokhovaya Street (literally Pea Street). According to a popular legend the name comes from a German merchant Harrach, whose name was russified as Gorokhov. Some historians find the legend unconvincing as no records indicate presence of a merchant named Harrach and merchants named Gorokhov were not associated with the street.[1]^[2]

Between 1918 and 1927 the street was renamed Komissarskaya Street, then between 1927 and 1991 it was renamed Dzerzhinsky Street after Felix Dzerzhinsky. Both names were connected with the Cheka office headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky situated in house number 2 of the street.^[1]^[2]

In 1991, after the Perestroika the name Gorokhovaya was restored.^[1]^[2]