Planeta Neptun

The shopping and entertainment complex (SEC) "Planet Neptune", which includes the first oceanarium in Russia, was opened to visitors on April 27, 2006. The complex is located in the center of St. Petersburg at the intersection of Marata and Zvenigorodskaya streets. The historical name of this area - Sementsy - comes from the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment, which, on the basis of the Decree of Empress Anna Ioannovna of 1739, owned the territory from Zvenigorodskaya Street to Moskovsky Prospekt. The area bounded by Zagorodny Prospekt, Zvenigorodskaya Street, Obvodny Canal and the Vitebsk Railway was the "parade ground" of the regiment. Semyonovsky parade ground, as it was usually called, until the early 1840s was surrounded by an earthen rampart. On the territory where the Planet Neptune shopping and entertainment center is located, the forage yard of the Semenovsky regiment was located. Semyonovsky parade ground usually served for military exercises and ceremonial reviews. He is also known for the gloomy events that took place here. On December 22, 1849, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was subjected to a mock death penalty, among the members of the Petrashevsky circle. Here, on April 3, 1881, the people who organized the assassination of Emperor Alexander II were executed. In the mid-1880s, the Semyonovsky parade ground was transferred to the Trotter Horse Breeding Society, then until 1940 there was a hippodrome on this site.