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Built by Georg Johann Mattarnovi, Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel and Domenico Trezzini on the left bank of the River Fontanka, opposite the Summer Garden (1715–22). Had bypass and internal canals. Intende...
Founded on Admiralty Island downstream the River Neva (1712). Construction of vessels – first rowing boats and small sailing ships and later frigates – began on nearby Galerny (Kalinkin) Island at th...
First shipbuilding yard in St Petersburg. Founded on the left bank of the River Bolshaya Neva at the same time as the Admiralty (5 November 1704). Construction was headed by Jacob Daniel Bruce, a Rus...