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Gagarin Embankment
Part of Palace Embankment between the River Fontanka and the Liteiny Bridge. Named after the Gagarin Wharf, a hemp warehouse on the right bank of the River Neva on the Petersburg Side (1860s). Renamed French Embankment (1902).
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