Buildings of the housing microrayon from Alexey Tolstoy Boulevard to General Khazov Street were put into housing. Alexey Tolstoy Boulevard/Pushkin, town
Pushkin, town

The two semi-circular houses were built at the intersection of 1st May Street (now it is Konyushennaya Street) and October Boulevard by the design of architects L.N. Rotinov and L.M. Bezverkhny. These houses were constructed in the Stalin Empire style determined in many characteristics the town centre characters of the square which was constructed between the town centre and the Railway Station. Bezverkhny, L.M.
Rotinov Leon Nikolaevich
Konyushennaya Street/Pushkin, town
Oktyabrsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town

A fountain was constructed at the corner of Dvortsovaya Street and Akademichesky Prospekt. The statue of Goddess of Fertility was created by the sculptor Savcal in 1862. Savkal
Akademichesky Avenue/Pushkin, town
Dvortsovaya Street/Pushkin, town

June. The headquarters of the virgin lands workers was organized at the Leningrad Agricultural Institute; the headquarters began to form the student units for the work on the virgin lands in Kazakhstan. In 1956 the 1,300- student-unit worked on the harvest of wheat in the Pavlodar Region. V.Shkrabak (the future principal of the Institute during 1994-2003, doctor of sciences), A.Pavlyukov, S. Konshin, L. Sulima were distingiushed student-combine operators.

1 September. The first music school, after the war, was opened in 46 October Boulevard; in 1958 the school was transferred into the premises of the Catherine Palace and in 1970 it was transferred into the building of the former Mariinskaya Gymnasium in 17 Leontyevskaya Street. Konshin, S.
Pavlyukov, A.
Shkrabak, Vladimir Sergeyevich
Sulima, L..
Leontievskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 17
Oktyabrsky Boulevard/Pushkin, town

October. House of Young Pioneers and Schoolboys was opened in the Reserve Palace restored after the war.

21 December. The opening of the first memorial exposition devoted to A. S. Pushkin took place in the dacha of Kitayeva at 4 rooms cleared from tenants. The first curator N.M. Chernetskaya worked at the Dacha- Museum from 1957 until 1981. Chernetskaya, N.M.

13 February. The well-known environmentalist, phenolog Ivan Nikolayevich Balbyshev published in the newspaper "Forward" his first article.

22 April. Monument to the leader of the Revolution V.I. Lenin (designed by the sculptor Z.M. Azgur and the architect E.A. Levinson) was unveiled on the day of the 90th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin on Central Square, on the place of the destroyed cathedral. The foundation works were made by workers of the building company UNR-53.

8 May. Monument to Ernst Thalmann, a German communist anti-fascist, (designed by the sculptor Walter Arnoldt) was ceremonially unveiled. His daughter Rosa Thalman was present at the opening. Monument was presented by metallurgy workers of Aisleben Town in the memory of the monument to V.I. Lenin preserved by Geman antifascists that took from Pushkin Town for the smelting in Germany during WWII.

The amount of the building works in the Pushkin district was 45,300 square metres of new living space and 5,800 square metres of restored living space , including organizations. Builders of the building companies UNR-53, UNR-28 and the Puskin reconstruction trust fulfilled the big part of this work. 2,500 trees were planted in the district. The clinic began to work in Moskovskaya Street.

1,840 people were registered as members of the District Voluntary People Partol consisting of workers, employees, labour veterans.

1 September. Two new boarding-schools and three secondary schools, for 2,240 pupils in all, were opened in the district.

250,000 people visited the Catherine Palace -Museum, 55,000 people had a rest at the day rest centre, 150,000 visitors were in the parks of Puskin Town and Pavlovsk Town on some days.

Workers of the sovkhoz "Detskoselsky" achieved the great production result, they gathered 258 centners (25,800 kilogrammes) of vegetables from each hectare and supplied 74,020 centners of vegetables for year. Arnold, Walter
Azgur, Z.I.
Balbyshev, Ivan Nikolayevich
Levinson Evgeny Adolfovich

Monument to the soil scientist V.V. Dokuchayev (designed by the sculptor I.V. Krestovsky and the architect M.B. Serebrovsky) was installed near the former Cossack barracks restored after the war according to the design by the architect L.N. Rotinov and accommodated for the academic building no.2 of the Agricultural Institute. Krestovsky Igor Vsevolodovich
Rotinov Leon Nikolaevich
Serebrovsky Mark Borisovich

January. Marina Nikolayevna Petay was appointed as the director of the All-Union Museum of A.S. Pushkin (the Lyceum, the Dacha of Kitayeva are branches of the museum), she worked in this position until 1988. She was awarded the Order of "Friendship of People", two orders " Sign of Honour", many medals. She was conferred the title "Honoured Worker of Culture of Russian Federation" and in 1998 she was conferred the title "Honorary Citizen of Pushkin Town". Petay, Marina Nikolayevna

The coal generator plants began to work using the gas, the generator plants were consolidated by means of increasing their power. The coal generator plants were shut down (there were 35 coal generator plants untill 1966).

The All-Union Museum of A.S. Pushkin literary exposition "A.S. Pushkin. The Person. Life and Creative Work" (Nina Ivanovna Granovskaya, a research worker of the museum, the author of the exposition, was conferred the title "The Honorary Citizen of Pushkin Town" in 1999) was opened in the church wing of the Catherine Palace (it was shut down in 1988).

The Pushkin Town citizen Sergey Dmitriyevich Umnikov, a collector of the materials about the poetess A.A. Akhmatova, opened the museum of A.A. Akhmatova in his own flat in Vokzalnaya Street (now it is Akhmatovskaya Street). In 1996 Umnikov passed his collection to the Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium of Arts. The exposition devoted to A.A. Akhmatova was opened in the gymnasium on 26 October 1996. Granovskaya, Nina Ivanovna
Umnikov, Sergey Dmitriyevich
Akhmatovskaya Street/Pushkin, town

Aleksandr Leonidovich Belayev was appointed the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of People's Deputies of the Pushkin District , he has been taken up this post untill 1980. In 2003 A.L. Belyayev was conferred the title "Honorary Citizen of Pushkin Town". In the Pushkin District A.L. Belyayev worked from 1949 at the Pushkin Repair-Mechanics Plant (PRMZ-3), from 1961 he worked in the Communist Party administration and the Soviet administration. During his work the district economy was successfully developed and many dwelling houses were built. A.L. Belyayev was awarded the Order "Sign of Honour". Belyayev, Aleksandr Leonidovich

8 December. The Museum of the Leningrad Agricultural Institute History was founded. Vladimir Nikolayevich Smirnov, a son of N.I. Smirnov, the last senior priest of the Cathedral of St. Catherine since 1916, was appointed the first director of the museum. V.N. Cmirnov was working at the museum untill his death in 1990. V.N. Smirnov, a native of Tsarskoye Selo, was of the most brilliant local historians of Pushkin Town of the post-war period.

The Cinema "Ruslan" for the audience of 1200 was built. The cinema foyer was decorated with the decorative wall-painting based on the plots of A.Pushkin's tales, that was made by a team of masters of Palekh under leading the State Prize laureates A.A. Kozhukhina and T.I. Zubkova (the wall-painting was destroyed during the reconstruction in 2009).

The Leningrad Agricultural Institute was awarded the Order of Labour Red Banner for the success in personnel training, development and application of the science research to agricultural production. Smirnov, Nikolay Nikolayavich, archpriest
Smirnov, Vladimir Nikolayavich
Zubkova, Tamara Ivanovna

6 June. The reconstruction of the Lyceum was finished; the reconstruction was based on the research work of the Lyceum keeper M.P. Rudensky and the design of the architect A.A. Kedrinsky. Restoration and building works were produced by the Pushkin Repair-Building Company.

22 November. A branch of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Science on the Non-chernozem zone of RSFSR was opened in the house no. 32 in Sofiysky Boulevard. The branch was headed by eminent scientists, academicians L.K. Ernst (from 1974 untill 1978), V.M. Kryazhkov (from 1978 untill 1983), G.V. Blagoveshchensky (from 1983 untill 1985), V.G. Mineyev (from 1985 untill 1988), N.G. Dmitriyev (from 1988 untill 1996). Since 2001 the North-Western department was headed by the academicians I.Ye. Yankovsky and I.A. Tikhonovich. Scientific and systematic centres of the Non-chernozem zone departments consolidate 31 research plots where 1600 research workers including 15 academicians, 12 members of the Academy, 129 Doctors of Science and 513 Bachelors of Science. Blagoveshchensky, G.V.
Dmitriyev, Nikolay Grigoryevich
Ernst, Lev Konstantinovich
Kedrinsky Alexander Alexandrovich
Kryazhkov, Valentin Mitrofanovich
Mineyev, Vasily Grigoryevich
Rudenskaya Marina Petrovna
Tikhonovich, Igor Anatolyevich
Yankovsky, Ivan Yevstafyevich
Sofiisky Boulevard/Pushkin, town