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Rakhya
Rakhya (Rahja, russian: Рахья) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Vsevolozhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus northeast of Saint Petersburg. Municipally it is incorporated as Rakhyinskoye Urban Settlement, one of the eight urban settlements in the district. Population: History In the end of the 19th century, Pavel Korf bought lands which currently belong to the settlement, for peat production. The closest village was Irinovka. In 1892, the first narrow-gauge railroad in Russia was constructed to transport peat. Torfyanaya railway station was open in the current area of the settlement (the name Torfyanaya originates from Russian ''torf'', for peat). The settlement around the station for a long time did not have any name and was known as the Settlement No. 1. In 1911, the production stopped, and in 1913 Korf died. The station was located in Shlisselburgsky Uyezd of Saint Petersburg Governorate (since 1913, Petrograd Gover ...
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Rakhya Railway Station
Rakhya (Rahja, russian: Рахья) is an types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Vsevolozhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus northeast of Saint Petersburg. Subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions, Municipally it is incorporated as Rakhyinskoye Urban Settlement, one of the eight urban settlements in the district. Population: History In the end of the 19th century, Pavel Korf bought lands which currently belong to the settlement, for peat production. The closest village was Irinovka. In 1892, the first narrow-gauge railroad in Russia was constructed to transport peat. Torfyanaya railway station was open in the current area of the settlement (the name Torfyanaya originates from Russian language, Russian ''torf'', for peat). The settlement around the station for a long time did not have any name and was known as the Settlement No. 1. In 1911, the production stopped, and in 1913 Korf died. The stati ...
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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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Leninsky District, Leningrad Okrug, Leningrad Oblast
Leninsky (masculine), Leninskaya (feminine), or Leninskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Leninsky District (other), several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union *Leninsky Okrug (other), various divisions in Russia *Leninsky Urban Settlement (or ''Leninskoye Urban Settlement''), several municipal urban settlements in Russia *Leninski, Belarus (''Leninsky''), a settlement in Belarus *Leninsky, Russia (''Leninskaya'', ''Leninskoye''), several inhabited localities in Russia * Leninsky Avenue (other), several avenues in Russian cities *Leninskaya Line, a line of the Novosibirsk Metro, Novosibirsk, Russia *Leninskaya (Nizhny Novgorod Metro), a station of the Nizhny Novgorod Metro, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia *Leninska (''Leninskaya''), prior to 1992, name of Teatralna station of the Kyiv Metro, Kyiv, Ukraine *Leninskoye, Kazakhstan, a locality in Aktobe Province The Aktobe Region ( kk, Ақтөбе облысы, Aqtöbe oblysy; russian: Актюбинс ...
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Road Of Life
The Road of Life () was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War. They were the only Soviet winter surface routes into the city while it was besieged by the German Army Group North under ''Feldmarschall'' Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. The routes operated in the winters of 1941-1942 and 1942-1943. Construction and operation were performed under German artillery and aerial bombardment. In January 1943 the Soviet's Operation Iskra broke the encirclement, and the ice roads were used in conjunction with land routes for the remainder of the winter. The routes carried supplies necessary to sustain life and resistance inside the Leningrad pocket, and evacuated non-combatants, wounded, and industrial equipment. Over 1.3 million people, primarily women and children, were evacuated over the roads during the siege . The Road of Life is now a World Heritage Site. History The blockade forms On 8 September 1941, Army Group North captured ...
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Kokkorevo
Kokkorevo (russian: Коккорево; fi, Kokkero) is a village in the Vsevolozhsky District of the Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is situated on the western shore of Lake Ladoga, and played a role in establishing supply lines during the Siege of Leningrad. The ''Broken Ring'' monument ( :ru:Разорванное кольцо), part of the larger Green Belt of Glory The Green Belt of Glory is a war memorial surrounding Saint Petersburg, Russia, commemorating the Siege of Leningrad of the Second World War. The belt consists of multiple small memorials marking the historical front line. History The concept o ... complex, is located in the village. References External linksМузей "Дорога жизни" {{Authority control Rural localities in Leningrad Oblast ...
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Murmansk
Murmansk (Russian: ''Мурманск'' lit. "Norwegian coast"; Finnish: ''Murmansk'', sometimes ''Muurmanski'', previously ''Muurmanni''; Norwegian: ''Norskekysten;'' Northern Sámi: ''Murmánska;'' Kildin Sámi: ''Мурман ланнҍ'') is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia. It sits on both slopes and banks of a modest ria or fjord, Kola Bay, an estuarine inlet of the Barents Sea. Its bulk is on the east bank of the inlet. It is in the north of the rounded Kola Peninsula which covers most of the oblast. The city is from the border with Norway and from the Finnish border. The city is named for the Murman Coast, which is in turn derived from an archaic term in Russian for "Norwegian". Benefiting from the North Atlantic Current, Murmansk resembles cities of its size across western Russia, with highway and railway access to the rest of Europe, and the northernmost trolleybus system on Earth. It lies over 2° n ...
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M18 Highway (Russia)
The R21 highway (in Cyrillic Р21), also known as the Kola Motorway, is a major highway in Russia, running from Saint Petersburg to Murmansk. The highway is part of European route E105 and is the main transportation route by road in the Republic of Karelia and the Murmansk Oblast. Its length is 1592 kilometers. Before 2018, the R21 was designated as M18. Route The R21 highway runs from Saint Petersburg, south of Lake Ladoga to Petrozavodsk, Kondopoga, Medvezhyegorsk, Segezha, Kem, Loukhi, Kandalaksha, Polyarnye Zori, Monchegorsk, Olenegorsk, Kola and ends in Severomorsk. It passes the Arctic circle a couple of kilometers south of the border of Karelia and the Murmansk oblast, north of Loukhi. Landscape In the Republic of Karelia, the landscape through which the R21 runs is mainly forest (birches), rivers and lakes. In the Murmansk Oblast, the highway runs for the most part through the Kola Peninsula, a severely polluted area. The landscape here is more open and consists partly ...
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Kirovsk, Leningrad Oblast
Kirovsk (russian: Ки́ровск) is a town and the administrative center of Kirovsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Neva River, east of St. Petersburg. Population: History Sergey Kirov founded Kirovsk in 1929 as the settlement of Nevdubstroy () in order to serve the nearby 8th Sergey Kirov Power Station. At the time Nevdubstroy formed part of Mginsky District with its administrative center in the settlement of Mga. The district remained a part of the Leningrad Okrug of Leningrad Oblast until August 15, 1930, when the okrugs were abolished as well, and the districts were directly subordinated to the oblast. On January 21, 1931 the settlement of Nevdubstroy was transferred to Leningradsky Prigorodny District. On May 20, 1936 it was granted urban-type settlement status and renamed rabochiy poselok pri 8-y GES imeni Kirova (); the name was later shortened to rabochiy poselok imeni Kirova ( ru , рабочий пос ...
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Finland Station
St Petersburg–Finlyandsky (russian: Станция Санкт-Петербург-Финля́ндский ''Stantsiya Sankt-Peterburg-Finlyandskiy'', in spoken language usually just russian: Финля́ндский вокзал ''Finlyandskiy vokzal'', "Finland Station") , is a railway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, handling transport to westerly destinations including Helsinki and Vyborg. The station is most famous for having been the location where Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia from exile in Switzerland on 16 April 1917 ( N.S.), ahead of the October Revolution. The main entrance to the metro station Ploshchad Lenina is in the main building of Finland Station. History Finland Station was built by Finnish State Railways as the eastern terminus of the Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway. It was designed by Swedish architects and opened in 1870. The station formerly contained a special pavilion for Russian royalty. Russian Revolution The station was owned and ...
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Leningradsky Prigorodny District
Leningradsky (masculine), Leningradskaya (feminine), or Leningradskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Leningradsky District, name of several districts and city districts in Russia *Leningradsky (inhabited locality) (''Leningradskaya'', ''Leningradskoye''), name of several inhabited localities in Russia *Leningradsky Avenue, a major avenue in Moscow, Russia *Leningradsky Rail Terminal the oldest principal railway station in Moscow, Russia *Leningrad Oblast (''Leningradskaya oblast''), a federal subject of Russia *Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel, a hotel in Moscow, Russia *Leningradskaya Station, a Soviet Antarctic research station *Leningradskaya railway station, former name of Streshnevo railway station in Moscow, Russia *Leningradskoye Highway Leningradskoye Highway (russian: Ленинградское шоссе) is a part of M10 highway (Russia), M10 federal highway Moscow – Saint Petersburg inside Moscow. One of the major thruways of Russia's capital, it connects Moscow with se ...
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