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tion), Petr Stanislavovich Kupinsky (Piotr Kopiński) (project of the Finlyandsky railway station), Bole-
slav Antonovich Bzhostovsky (Bolesław Brzostowski) (Vitebsky railway station). Petr Ivanovich Balinsky
(Piotr Baliński) created the project of the elevated subway.
Nevsky Avenue continued to play the role of the city and cultural center of the Russian Capital. During
this period it was populated with magnificent buildings with large faęades, mirror show-windows, and
metal actively applied in decoration. Many of these buildings were erected according to projects of Polish
architects.
The Saint Petersburg of the second half of the 19'11 century is a promptly developing city. Its archi-
tectural chronicie actively replenished with the constructions of different functions, created according to
projects of architects and the engineers professing the most progressive ideas of the time. Among authors
of many constructions in Saint Petersburg there are also Polish names. The careers of the Polish builders
of Petersburg developed differently, nonetheless, their creations are reserved in the architectural practice
of Saint Petersburg forever.