Barmaleeva street

Barmaleyeva Street is located in the Petrograd district of St. Petersburg. It runs from Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street to Chkalovsky Prospekt and Levashovsky Prospekt. The street appeared on the maps of the city in 1730 as a road laid on the territory of the settlement of the St. Petersburg garrison regiment. The street was named after the merchant Barmaleyev, who kept warehouses here at the beginning of the reign of Catherine the Great. According to another version, the street was named after Lieutenant Colonel Stepan Barmaleyev who lived here.

Until the middle of the XIX century, this poor soldier-craft district was nothing special. There were warehouses with goods for the army, a few residential buildings were single-storey and wooden. Until 1861, there was a ban on the construction of stone houses by private individuals for reasons of defense effectiveness of the nearby Peter and Paul Fortress. Large-scale construction began only at the beginning of the XX century.

The name of the street served as the basis for the image of the terrible robber Barmaley from the fairy tale of the same name K.I. Chukovsky.