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"Kurakina Cottage" (Saint Petersburg)

Russia / Sankt Petersburg / Petro-Slavyanka / Saint Petersburg / ulitsa Babushkina, 56
 hospital, hospice, 2010_construction

"Kurakina Cottage" - a garden in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg.
The garden is located between Avenue Obukhovskoy Defense, Lesnozavodskoy street, street, Grandma, boulevard Red Dawn, a direct avenue and Ivanovo street. The territory of the garden is a pond.
The garden was named after the estate is located here dukes brothers Alexander and Alexei Kurakins.
In "Kurakina Dacha" preserved wooden building Nikolaev Institute (st. Grandma, 56, Bldg. 3). It was built in the late XVIII - early XIX century and rebuilt in 1869 by architect J. E. Johanson (Iogansenom). Today has the status of architectural monument. The first floor of the stone, the second - wood. For a long time the building was abandoned, and 12 July 2006 burned down [1]. A year later there was another fire - 24 June 2007 [2]. In the spring of 2008 he was illegally demolished, and then recreated in stone (the second floor, however, closed batten). Project has been agreed KGIOP. In the replica will place St. Petersburg. Gama "Children's Hospice" [3]. End stroitelva scheduled for late 2010, was appointed director of the hospice, Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko [4].
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Coordinates:   59°52'11"N   30°27'11"E
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