# Sennaya Square
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{{Short description|City square in Central Saint Petersburg, Russia}}
{{Refimprove|date=December 2018}}
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thumb|300x300px|Neptune fountain at Sennaya Square
[[File:View of the Sennaya Square in Petersburg.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Vintage view of Sennaya Square
by [Benjamin Patersen](/source/Benjamin_Patersen) (1748/50 to 1814/15)]]
thumb|300x300px|Sennaya Square in the early 20th century; the church was blown up by the Soviet regime in 1961, and the market has since been disassembled
[[File:Санкт-Петербург, Сенная площадь сверху.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Aerial view of Sennaya Square in 2022, [the guardhouse on Sennaya Square](/source/the_guardhouse_on_Sennaya_Square) in the bottom left corner]]
'''Sennaya Square'''[
{{cite book
|last= Schrader |first= Heiko
|title= Lombard Houses in St. Petersburg: Pawing [sic] as a Survival Strategy of Low-income Households?
|publisher= [LIT Verlag](/source/LIT_Verlag) Münster
|chapter= XIII: The Present Lombard Landscape in Saint Petersburg
|page= 45 |isbn= 3-8258-5109-5 |location= [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg)
|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=mzXe2ETBQOgC&q=sennaya+square+saint+petersburg&pg=PA39
|year= 2000
}}
]
or '''Sennaya Ploshchad''' ({{lang-rus|Сенна́я пло́щадь|p=sʲɪˈnːajə ˈploɕːɪtʲ|t=Hay Square|links=yes}}) is a large city square in [Central Saint Petersburg](/source/Central_Saint_Petersburg), located at the crossing of [Sadovaya Street](/source/Sadovaya_Street) and [Moskovsky Prospekt](/source/Moskovsky_Prospekt) (formerly ''Zabalkansky Prospekt'').
==History==
The square was established in 1737 as a market where hay, firewood and cattle were sold. It was built under the extension of the Garden Street, and grew quickly, becoming the cheapest and the most active market in [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg). The Hay Market was a place where merchants and farmers could trade. It was there that malefactors were flogged before a large concourse of people.
In 1753, local merchants commissioned the building of the [Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God](/source/Saviour_Church_on_Sennaya_Square) in a sumptuous [Baroque](/source/Baroque) style.{{sfn|Isachenko|2010}} In the middle of the square is a former guardhouse (1818–20). [Cholera riots](/source/Cholera_riots) took place in the square in 1831. The [surrounding district](/source/Sennoy_Municipal_Okrug) was known for its infamous slums, which provide the setting for [Fedor Dostoevsky](/source/Fedor_Dostoevsky)'s novel ''[Crime and Punishment](/source/Crime_and_Punishment)''.
In 1952, [Joseph Stalin](/source/Joseph_Stalin) renamed the square ''Ploshchad Mira''. In 1961, at the height of [Nikita Khrushchev](/source/Nikita_Khrushchev)'s anti-religious campaign, he had the church demolished; a chapel now marks the site.{{sfn|Isachenko|2010}} In 1992, the square's original name was restored.
Three metro stations serve the square; its namesake [Sennaya Ploshchad](/source/Sennaya_Ploshchad_(Saint_Petersburg_Metro)), [Sadovaya](/source/Sadovaya_(Saint_Petersburg_Metro)) (Garden Street) and [Spasskaya](/source/Spasskaya_(Saint_Petersburg_Metro)). It is also a bus and ''[marshrutka](/source/marshrutka)'' station. It used to have regular tram transportation until 2010, a fragment of the tram rails having been preserved as a historical mark.
==Streets entering the square==
*[Sadovaya Street](/source/Sadovaya_Street)
* [Yefimov Street](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%A3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_(%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3))
* [Moskovsky Avenue](/source/Moskovsky_Avenue)
* [Brinko Lane](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE)
* [Grivtsov Lane](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D1%86%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0)
* [Spassky Lane](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA_(%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3))
* [:ru:набережная канала Грибоедова](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0) ([Griboyedov Canal](/source/Griboyedov_Canal) embankment)
==See also==
* [List of squares in Saint Petersburg](/source/List_of_squares_in_Saint_Petersburg)
==References==
{{reflist}}
== Sources ==
*{{cite book
|last=Isachenko
|first=Valeriy
|year=2010
|title=Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга XVIII – XX веков
|trans-title=Architects of St Petersburg in XVIII – XX Centuries
|language=ru
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CbAfms3kk8YC&pg=PT48
|location=Moscow
|publisher=Tsentrpoligraph
|isbn=978-5-227-02220-2
}}
==External links==
* [http://www.sennaya.com/sennayahistory.html Illustrated history of Sennaya Square]
* {{commonscat-inline|Sennaya Square}}
Category:Squares in Saint Petersburg
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