Benois Garden
The area between Nauki, Svetlanovsky and Tikhoretsky prospects is occupied by the Benois Garden. Currently this place is an abandoned wasteland.
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Benois Garden
History of the Benois Garden:
In the 1890s, this territory between Murinsky Creek and St. Petersburg was leased for 50 years by the architect Julius Yulievich Benois.
Here by 1904 he built his farm. The main building of the estate was a wooden two-story house with a tower, which served not only as decoration, but also as a fire tower. The farm buildings included cowsheds, barns, a wind pump and various other outbuildings. A road was built from the city to the farm, named after the owner’s surname - Benoit Avenue.
The Benois farm was famous in St. Petersburg.
Its main client was a dairy factory on Mokhovaya Street. The farm was exemplary; they were very careful about cleanliness and order.
Employees were punished with a large fine for poor quality work. Subsequently, the farm administration was often accused of “exploiting workers.” After the events of 1917, the Benoit farm was nationalized.
This was not easy to do, since by this time the farm workers lived much better than other workers in Petrograd. They had their own land plots and received certain benefits in the purchase of manufactured products. In November 1918, the former Benoit farm became the “1st city dairy farm” of the Petrogubkommune.
More often it was called the “Forest Farm” or the state farm “Forest Farm”. Later, the name of the enterprise was assigned: the Lesnoye state farm. In the 1920s, the state farm was successfully reorganized and improved.
Milk from here was supplied to twenty facilities: nurseries, children's clinics, hospitals, orphanages. With the beginning of the New Economic Policy, they began to grow potatoes and raise pigs, chickens and rabbits here. By the mid-1920s, the Lesnoy farm was merged with the Reimer farm, a small farm on the other side of the Murinsky stream. Since the late 1920s, vegetable growing began to develop here. During the Great Patriotic War, the state farm did not stop its work, despite the evacuation of most of the livestock and the departure of many workers to the front.
Lesnoy supplied vegetables to the residents of besieged Leningrad. In 1952, Benoit Avenue was renamed Tikhoretsky.
After the War, the state farm continued its successful activities.
In 1959 it received the status of a state breeding plant. He was considered one of the best in the Leningrad region and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Citizens from the nearby outskirts of Leningrad often came here for milk. The Lesnoye state farm club was popular among students of the Polytechnic Institute. By the end of the 1960s, the city came close to the territory of the state farm.
In 1967, a decision was made to move it; by 1968, the state farm moved to a new site at the junction of the Gatchina and Pushkin districts of the Leningrad region. Since that time, the site of the former Benoit farm has been used for various public purposes. At the end of the 1980s, the “Benoit dacha” was transferred to the art education school. There was a fire here in 2001, and only ruins remain from the burned house.
In the 1890s, this territory between Murinsky Creek and St. Petersburg was leased for 50 years by the architect Julius Yulievich Benois.
Here by 1904 he built his farm. The main building of the estate was a wooden two-story house with a tower, which served not only as decoration, but also as a fire tower. The farm buildings included cowsheds, barns, a wind pump and various other outbuildings. A road was built from the city to the farm, named after the owner’s surname - Benoit Avenue.
The Benois farm was famous in St. Petersburg.
Its main client was a dairy factory on Mokhovaya Street. The farm was exemplary; they were very careful about cleanliness and order.
Employees were punished with a large fine for poor quality work. Subsequently, the farm administration was often accused of “exploiting workers.” After the events of 1917, the Benoit farm was nationalized.
This was not easy to do, since by this time the farm workers lived much better than other workers in Petrograd. They had their own land plots and received certain benefits in the purchase of manufactured products. In November 1918, the former Benoit farm became the “1st city dairy farm” of the Petrogubkommune.
More often it was called the “Forest Farm” or the state farm “Forest Farm”. Later, the name of the enterprise was assigned: the Lesnoye state farm. In the 1920s, the state farm was successfully reorganized and improved.
Milk from here was supplied to twenty facilities: nurseries, children's clinics, hospitals, orphanages. With the beginning of the New Economic Policy, they began to grow potatoes and raise pigs, chickens and rabbits here. By the mid-1920s, the Lesnoy farm was merged with the Reimer farm, a small farm on the other side of the Murinsky stream. Since the late 1920s, vegetable growing began to develop here. During the Great Patriotic War, the state farm did not stop its work, despite the evacuation of most of the livestock and the departure of many workers to the front.
Lesnoy supplied vegetables to the residents of besieged Leningrad. In 1952, Benoit Avenue was renamed Tikhoretsky.
After the War, the state farm continued its successful activities.
In 1959 it received the status of a state breeding plant. He was considered one of the best in the Leningrad region and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Citizens from the nearby outskirts of Leningrad often came here for milk. The Lesnoye state farm club was popular among students of the Polytechnic Institute. By the end of the 1960s, the city came close to the territory of the state farm.
In 1967, a decision was made to move it; by 1968, the state farm moved to a new site at the junction of the Gatchina and Pushkin districts of the Leningrad region. Since that time, the site of the former Benoit farm has been used for various public purposes. At the end of the 1980s, the “Benoit dacha” was transferred to the art education school. There was a fire here in 2001, and only ruins remain from the burned house.
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