**Aptekarskaya Embankment**, which is just over two and a half kilometers long, stretches along Bolshaya Nevka — from [Lopukhinsky Garden] (http://kudago.com/spb/place/lopuhinskij-sad/) to Petrogradskaya Embankment. This important city highway owes its name, which appeared on maps in 1887, to Aptekarsky Island.

Since the founding of St. Petersburg, Aptekarsky was the only island that belonged to the state. According to the decree of Peter I, only pharmacists had the right to settle here. It was here that the cultivation of all kinds of medicinal plants and their subsequent processing was put on a grand scale. Years later, the Imperial [Botanical Garden] was laid out on Aptekarsky Island (http://kudago.com/spb/place/botanicheskij-sad/).

Recently, this part of the Petrograd side has been incredibly reviving and is rapidly replenished with new fashionable establishments. We have compiled a [route] (https://kudago.com/spb/list/marshrut-po-maloizuchennomu/) through the modern district and tell you what you should definitely pay attention to.