Editing Grid plan (section)

=== Russia (18th century) ===
[[File:Homann MapSpb1716-17.png|thumb|The map of St. Petersburg (1717). The grid of 'lines' and 'prospekts' is seen across the whole rectangular [[Vasilyevsky Island]], while actually only the eastern part was built]]
In [[Russia]] the first [[planned city]] was [[St. Petersburg]] founded in 1703 by [[Peter the Great|Peter I]]. Being aware of the modern European construction experience which he examined in the years of his [[Grand Embassy of Peter the Great|Grand Embassy to Europe]], the Czar ordered [[Domenico Trezzini]] to elaborate the first general plan of the city. The project of this architect for [[Vasilyevsky Island]] was a typical rectangular grid of streets (originally intended to be canals, like in [[Amsterdam]]), with three lengthwise thoroughfares, rectangularly crossed with about 30 crosswise streets.

The shape of street blocks on [[Vasilyevsky Island]] are the same, as was later implemented in the [[Commissioners' Plan of 1811]] for [[Manhattan]]: elongated rectangles. The longest side of each block faces the relatively narrow street with a numeric name (in Petersburg they are called [[Lines of Vasilyevsky Island|''Liniya'' (Line)]]) while the shortest side faces wide avenues. To denote avenues in Petersburg, a special term ''[[Prospekt (street)|prospekt]]'' was introduced. Inside the grid of Vasilyevsky Island there are three prospekts, named ''Bolshoi'' (''Big''), ''Sredniy ''(''Middle'') and ''Maly'' (''Small'') while the far ends of each line cross with the embankments of [[Bolshaya Neva River|Bolshaya Neva]] and [[Smolenka River|Smolenka]] rivers in the delta of the [[Neva River]].

The peculiarity of 'lines' (streets) naming in this grid is that are each side of street has its own number, so one 'line' is a side of a street, not the whole street. The numbering is latently zero-based, however the supposed "zero line" has its proper name ''Kadetskaya liniya'', while the opposite side of this street is called the '1-st Line'. Next street is named the '2-nd Line' on the eastern side, and the '3-rd Line' on the western side. After the reorganization of house numbering in 1834 and 1858 the even house numbers are used on the odd-numbered lines, and respectively odd house numbers are used for the even-numbered lines. The maximum numbers for 'lines' in Petersburg are 28-29th lines.

Later in the middle of the 18th century another grid of rectangular blocks with the numbered streets appeared in the continental part of the city: 13 streets named from the '1-st Rota' up to the '13-th Rota', where the [[Company (military unit)|companies]] ({{langx|de|Rotte}}, {{langx|ru|рота}}) of the [[Izmaylovsky Regiment]] were located.