ABSTRACT
The article is devoted to the study of the development of Vasilevskiy Island, starting from 1715 during the reign of Peter I, and its regulation within the framework of the system of special royal urban planning, architectural and administrative-managerial decrees, which allowed the creation of a unique urban environment on the island, rightly associated in the public consciousness as “Northern Venice” and “New Amsterdam”. The relevance of the work is because, in recent years, the Russian Federation has been actively re-evaluating urban planning policy, discussions are being held about the place of St. Petersburg in the history of the country. The purpose of the study is to identify the reasons and possibilities for the implementation of the urban planning ideas of Peter I, as well as to analyze the continuity of the legal regulation of the territory under consideration. For the study, the following methods were used: archival-bibliographic, cartographic, and analytical. Results: legal acts were analyzed and the results of their implementation were evaluated.
