2021-04-05 :: 115th Anniversary of the Leontief Centre’s Building on 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya Street

In 2021, the Leontief Centre’s Building on 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya Street is celebrating 115 years. The building was erected according to the project of the architect Sergei Barankeev, who built over 40 buildings in St. Petersburg in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. On the site, where several buildings and structures were previously located, by order of its owner — Hereditary Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg, merchant of the 1st Guild, state councilor, famous bibliophile and collector, member and employee of the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine Nikolai Sinyagin — in 1904-1905 a five-storey building was erected, which housed 62 apartments and 8 shop premises.

After the Revolution of 1917, a slight change in the facade, overlooking Izmailovsky Prospekt, and a serious redevelopment of the interior were made under the leadership of the architect Vladimir Ovchinnikov. At different times the building housed state and party institutions of Moskovsko-Narvsky, Moskovsky and Leninsky districts (while maintaining a small number of apartments). Later, the building was occupied by the scientific-technological and design association “Lensistemotehnika” that carried out research and development, information and computational works on the basis of economic-mathematical methods. As part of the association, the Computer Center had been established that became one of the country’s first data processing centers for urban governance. Since 1991, the building has housed the Leontief Centre.

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