• Sennaya Square at the beginning of the XX century; the church was blown up by the Soviet regime in 1961, and the market has since been disassembled.
  • ...at the edge of the young city founded in 1703 and was probably named after the Hay Market in London, in Russian called the Sennaya Ploschad, "Hay Square."
  • Sennaya Square is now also a junction of three Metro lines. In Russian style, each line has different name for this station, it is Sennaya Square for line 2...
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  • The name "Sennaya Square" appeared already at the end of the 18th century, when houses began to appear around the marketplace.
  • Sennaya Square (or Hay square, from 1952 to 1992 – Peace Square) is a square in the center of St. Petersburg, located at the intersection of Moskovsky...
  • Sennaya square is located in the very centre of Saint Petersburg but in a very different area than the one of the Nevsky Avenue.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky also incorporated Sennaya Ploshchad into his works. The square is the setting of pivotal moments in both Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.