Manezhnaya Square (,

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''Manezhnaya ploschad'') is a

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in the Tsentralny District of

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

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 and may be translated. The shape of Manezhnaya Square is close to the

right-angled triangle A right triangle or right-angled triangle, sometimes called an orthogonal triangle or rectangular triangle, is a triangle in which two sides are perpendicular, forming a right angle ( turn or 90 degrees). The side opposite to the right angle i ...

. Its longest

cathetus In a right triangle, a cathetus (originally from Greek , "perpendicular"; 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 ...

, 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 a main street ( high street) located in the federal city of St. Petersburg in Russia. Its name comes from the Alexander Nevs ...

, 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 side of a right triangle opposite to the right angle. It is the longest side of any such triangle; the two other shorter sides of such a triangle are called '' catheti'' or ''legs''. Every rectangle can be divided ...

" 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 (, ''Mikhailovsky zamok''), also called the Mikhailovsky Castle or the Engineers' Castle (, ''Inzhenerny zamok''), is a former royal residence in the historic centre of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Saint Michael's Castle wa ...

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