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St. Petersburg, where Mendeleev formulated the Periodic Table. The Neva River flows from west to east into the Baltic Sea. The Neva splits at Vasily Island to the "Little Neva" (north path) and the "Big Neva" (south path). "Most" means "bridge," of which there are several crossing the Neva River. This easternmost edge of Vasily Island is known as the "Vasily Island Split."
Mendenleev Museum, St. Petersburg State University, former office of Mendeleev, 2 Mendeleevskaya liniya - N59 56.50 E30 17.98.
Lomonosov Statue, Mendeleevskaya liniya - N59 56.44 E30 18.09.
Lomonosov bust, Lomonosov Square (Pl. Lomonosva, - N59 55.74 E30 20.07.
(RR) Findlandsky Voksal, opened in 1870, Pl. Lenina, serves Helsinki, Finland - N59 57 20 E30 21 23.
(RR) Vitebsky Voksal, the first railroad station built in St. Petersburg in 1837, serves central Europe, the Baltic States, Ukraine, and Belarus, Zagorodny Prospect. - N59 55.11 E30 19.75.
(RR) Moskovsky Voksal, built in 1851, serves Moscow and points south and east, Nevsky Prospect - N59 55.77 E30 21.73
Hermitage, with vast art collections and other exhibits of history and culture, 38 Dvortsovaya Nab. (Palace Embankment) - N59 56.43 E30 18.82.
Metrology Institute, where Mendeleev worked the second part of his career (1890-1907), Moskovsky Pr. - N 59° 55.08
E 30° 19.10.
Mendeleev Statue and Wall Periodic Table, beside the Metrology Institute, 19 Moskovsky Pr.- N59 55.08 E30 19.05.
Mendeleev's home, at the same address, 19 Moskovsky Pr., where he lived 1897-1907. He had another temporary home (probably since torn down) in the general area 1892-1897, before his permanent home (1897-1907) was built.
Mint, Monetniy Dvor, ("Money Yard"), source of platinum ores for ruthenium research and discovery (by Klaus in Kazan, Russia), Peter and Paul Fortress - N59 57.00 E30 18.87.
Army (Military) Medical Academy (Voyeno Meditsinskaya Akademiya), famous school where several prominent chemists worked; formal address Ul. Akademika Lebedeva 6, but wall holding plaques of famous professors is on orthogonal street, Pirogovskaya Nab., paralleling the Neva River - N59 57.29 E30 20.70,
"1" = Mileage post on Moskovsky Pr. ("673 versts from Moscow") - N59 55.26 E30 19.04.
"2" = Yusopov's garden on Sadovaya Ulitsa, off Moskovsky Pr.- N59 55.44 E30 18.73.
"3" = Nabokov's home, 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. - N59 55.91 E30 18.29.
"4" - Dostoevsky's home before his imprisonment, 8 Voznesensky Prospect (at the corner of Malaya Morskaya Ul. - N59 56.07 E30 18.51.
"5" = The Vasily Island Split -- where the westward flowing Neva River branches to the northern Malaya Neva (Small Neva) and the southern Bolshaya Neva (Big Neva) -- is marked by the "Rostral Columns," historic lighthouses built in 1811, erected at the north and side ends of Birzhevaya Ploshchad (Birzhevaya Square) - N59 56.66 E30 18.42.
"6" = the intermediate home of Mendeleev (1890-1892) between the times of his homes at the University and at the Bureau of Weights and Measures; located at the site of the Cadet Corps on Kadetskaya Lin., now known as S"ezdovskaya Lin. His building opened out on Tuchkov Per. (parallel to S"ezdovskaya Lin.) and Kubanskiy Per. (connecting S"ezdovskaya and Tuchkov) - N59 56.62 E30 17.29.
"7" = Mining Institute, where Sobelevsky analyzed platinum and developed the procedures for producing malleable platinum for the years platinum was used in Russian coinage 1828-1844, Leitenanta Schmidta Nab. at intersection of Lin. 21 - N59 55.75 W30 16.15.