The Smolny: Ploshchad Proletarskoi Diktatiiry (Square of Proletarian Dictatorship).
The world-khown historical building of the Smolny is the symbol of Lenigrad (in USSR) — the city of three revolutions, the cradle of the Great October Revolution. There are two memorial plaques on the portico of the main entrance; the inscriptions on them read: ‘Here, in the Smolny, were the headquarters of the armed uprising…