Turning factories into hangout areas is great because people can visit places previously hidden behind fences. At the same time, the authentic industrial look gives way to commercially intended designs that rather imitate real things.
This is what's happening to an old industrial district called Chekushi in St. Petersburg. I am a regular visitor of that area last days so let me show both the renovated and old.
A former cable factory. Sevkabel Port. It has already become a well-known place in the city.
A visitor of Sevkabel.
A footbridge connecting two buildings of a former tannery founded in 1847 by Russian peasants who became rich as а result, Brusnitsyns.
Brusnitsyns' area is the third one that is going to be a public space full of bars and restaurants. They recently opened a seaside part but it is almost empty - the stage of construction.
We must hurry to take images before it is too late.
The Soviet heritage. Order of the Red Banner of Labour on the wall of a former textile factory.
"Fire lane".
The land of the barbed wire:
Baltic Shipyard (founded in 1856 by the British):
The flimsy Soviet buildings of the plant for the production of crushing equipment:
The street is called Maslyanyy Canal - there was a canal at the place of this factory.
There are residential buildings in that industrial district, too. And this is one of the last places in Vasilyevsky Island where you can find old wooden windows, not the boring plastic ones which do not fit with the old architecture.
These are images I took with Nikon D750 and Nikkor lenses in May/June 2022 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Thank you for stopping by!