Manezhnaya Square (russian: Манежная площадь, romanized ''Manezhnaya ploschad'') is a

square In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90- degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length a ...

in the Tsentralny District of

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

In some guidebooks this square may be also named a ''Riding-School Square'':Eugene Fodor, Robert C. Fishe
Fodor's Soviet Union.
Fodor's Travel Publications, 1990 - 420 pages "riding school" is one of the variants in which french: manège and russian: манеж, translit=manezh may be translated. The shape of Manezhnaya Square is close to the

right-angled triangle A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British), or more formally an orthogonal triangle, formerly called a rectangled triangle ( grc, ὀρθόσγωνία, lit=upright angle), is a triangle in which one angle is a right an ...

. Its longest

cathetus In a right triangle, a cathetus (originally from the Greek word ; plural: catheti), commonly known as a leg, is either of the sides that are adjacent to the right angle. It is occasionally called a "side about the right angle". The side opposite ...

, the southern side of Manezhnaya Square is formed with ''Italyanskaya Street'', which runs parallel to

Nevsky Prospect Nevsky Prospect ( rus, Не́вский проспе́кт, r=Nevsky Prospekt, p=ˈnʲɛfskʲɪj prɐˈspʲɛkt) is the main street (high street) in the federal city of St. Petersburg in Russia. It takes its name from the Alexander Nevsky La ...

, at about hundred meters north of it. The shortest cathetus is ''Karavannaya Street'', which forms the eastern side of the square running from Nevky prospect to the north. Another street connecting the square to Nevsky is ''Malaya Sadovaya'' which intersects Italyanskaya Street at the western corner of the square. Here converges the third, longest side — the "

hypotenuse In geometry, a hypotenuse is the longest side of a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the right angle. The length of the hypotenuse can be found using the Pythagorean theorem, which states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse e ...

" of this triangle square. Driveways flanking one of the buildings on this side of the square merge behind it into a boulevard, ''Klenovaya alley'', which runs from Manezhnaya Square to

Mikhailovsky Castle Saint Michael's Castle (russian: Миха́йловский за́мок, ''Mikhailovsky zamok''), also called the Mikhailovsky Castle or the Engineers' Castle (russian: Инженерный замок, ''Inzhenerny zamok''), is a former royal ...

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