prospekt

plural prospekts · plural prospekty · alternative prospect

1. In Russia, a broad, multilane and very long straight street in urban areas, which serves as an arterial road.

   At No. 17, on the other side of the prospekt, is a building that was once the palace of Count Stroganov.

   1959, P[avel] Kann, translated by Robert Daglish, “Nevsky Prospekt”, in Leningrad: A Short Guide, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 99

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   It is not a fashionable quarter, but it contains wide Prospekts, bordered by good houses, as well as some important public buildings, amongst which are the Exchange and the University.

   1874, [Maria] Guthrie, chapter III, in Through Russia: From St. Petersburg to Astrakhan and the Crimea, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66

   Converging towards the central spire of the Admiralty, are the three prospekts of which mention has been made, their length being reckoned by miles.

   1884, “Journey from St. Petersburg”, in John Croumbie Brown, compiler, Forestry in the Mining Districts of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Russia, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, […]; […], →OCLC, part I (Russia West of the Ural Mountains), page 8

   All the streets are broad. They are classed as prospekts, oulitzi, and perouloks or cross streets, but even the perouloks would be broad streets in most of the older European towns.

   1885, Augustus J[ohn] C[uthbert] Hare, “S. Petersburg”, in Studies in Russia, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 36

   Instead of the smell of disinfectant, a mixture of heavy, acrid cigarette smoke, sour bread, cabbage and sweat hung in the air-⁠-that quintessential Soviet smell that you find even in the middle of a prospekt.

   1982, Catherine A[nn] Fitzpatrick, Moscow’s Independent Peace Movement, New York, N.Y.: U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, →OCLC, page 57

   I arrived at the fag end of winter, in the time of the veritable Bulgakovian black snow — fur-grey, at least, in the parks and under the Kremlin walls; great coal-black lumps in the gutters of the big prospekty.

   1987 April 20, W[illiam] L[eslie] Webb, “[Mikhail] Gorbachev spring without retreat”, in The Guardian, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1