Kingiseppsky Uyezd
Kingiseppsky (masculine), Kingiseppskaya (feminine), or Kingiseppskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Kingiseppsky District, a district of Leningrad Oblast, Russia *Kingiseppskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation corresponding to Kingiseppskoye Settlement Municipal Formation, an administrative division of Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia *Kingiseppsky (rural locality), a rural locality (a logging depot settlement) in Leningrad Oblast, Russia See also

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Kingiseppsky District
Kingiseppsky District (russian: Кингисе́ппский райо́н, fi, Kingiseppin piiri) is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #81-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borders with Ida-Viru County of Estonia in the west, Lomonosovsky District in the northeast, Volosovsky District in the east, and with Slantsevsky District in the south. In the north and northwest it is washed by the waters of the Gulf of Finland. The area of the district is .Official website of Kingiseppsky District
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Kingisepp
Kingisepp (russian: Ки́нгисепп or ), formerly Yamburg (), Yam (), and Yama (; Votic language, Votic: Jaama), is an ancient types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located along the Luga River southwest of Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, east of Narva, and south of the Gulf of Finland. Population: History 14th century The town was first documented in 1384, when the Novgorod Republic, Novgorodians under Patrikas built there a Yam fortress, fortress against the Swedes. It was called Yama or Yamsky Gorodok, after the Izhorians, Izhorian (ethnic Baltic Finns, Finnic group) name Jaama. The environs of the town are still cited as the main location of speakers of the nearly extinct Ingrian language, Izhorian language. The citadel withstood sieges by the Swedes in 1395 and by the Teutonic Knights during the 1444–1448 war. 15-16th century The town became the most important ...
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Kingiseppsky (rural Locality)
Kingiseppsky (masculine), Kingiseppskaya (feminine), or Kingiseppskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Kingiseppsky District, a district of Leningrad Oblast, Russia *Kingiseppskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation corresponding to Kingiseppskoye Settlement Municipal Formation, an administrative division of Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia * Kingiseppsky (rural locality), a rural locality (a logging depot settlement) in Leningrad Oblast, Russia See also *Kingissepa, name of Kuressaare Kuressaare () is a town on Saaremaa island in Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Saaremaa Parish and the capital of Saare County. Kuressaare is the westernmost town in Estonia. The recorded population on 1 January 2018 was 13,276. Th ...

Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Oblast ( rus, Ленинградская область, Leningradskaya oblast’, lʲɪnʲɪnˈgratskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It was established on 1 August 1927, although it was not until 1946 that the oblast's borders had been mostly settled in their present position. The oblast was named after the city of Saint Petersburg, Leningrad. In 1991, the city restored its original name, Saint Petersburg, but the oblast retains the name of Leningrad. The capital and largest city is Gatchina. The oblast overlaps the historic region of Ingria and is bordered by Finland (Kymenlaakso and South Karelia) in the northwest and Estonia (Ida-Viru County) in the west, as well as five federal subjects of Russia: the Republic of Karelia in the northeast, Vologda Oblast in the east, Novgorod Oblast in the south, Pskov Oblast in the southwest, and the federal city of Saint Petersburg in the west. The first governor of L ...
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