Over the course of a thousand-year history of development, various types of transport facilities have emerged, disappeared, or been revived. Many industrial and transport infrastructure facilities have lost their current functions, but have historical value. Historical buildings of stables, carriage houses, post stations, tram and railway depots need renovation and repurposing for new current functions. Each of these facilities has its own design and planning features, which can become determining factors when choosing a new purpose.

Keywords: architecture of transport structures, objects of transport infrastructure, stables, carriage houses, postal stations, repurposing, functional structure, functionalism, architectural form, reconstruction, renovation

The location of the St. Petersburg Commercial Port on the left-bank territories of the Neva estuary is an element of the urban development tradition of St. Petersburg. The planning structure, the system of unique engineering structures, including the Sea Canal, have been preserved here. The development, created according to the projects of famous architects of the past period, has high historical and cultural value. The renovation of historical architecture does not go without contradictions with modern trends in the functional development of the port, especially in the coastal areas, where the main loading and unloading processes take place

Keywords: industrial complex, renovation directions, history of industrial architecture, preservation of historical architectural and urban environment, architectural form, reconstruction, renovation