History
In 1767 the Committee of City Building made a decision to develop a vacant space on the spit of Vasilevsky Island and approved the plan.
The Old Stock Exchange was initially built by edict of Peter the Great for Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange, which he founded inspired by stock exchange in Amsterdam. Later the building. In the six years from 1783 to 1789 on the shores of the Great Neva there were built the main building of the Academy of Sciences and the concave portion of the northern warehouse (1795–1797). Thus was built the building on the left and right of the location of future Stock Exchange building.
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