Ligovka-Yamskaya Municipal Okrug (russian: муниципа́льный о́круг Ли́говка-Ямска́я) is a municipal
okrug
An ''okrug, ; russian: о́круг, ókrug; sr, округ, okrug, ; uk, о́круг, о́kruh; be, акруга, akruha; pl, okręg; ab, оқрҿс; mhr, йырвел, '' is a type of administrative division in some Slavic states. Th ...
in
Tsentralny District, one of the
eighty-one low-level municipal divisions of the
federal city
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Germany
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of
St. Petersburg,
Russia
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.
[Law #411-68] As of the
2010 Census, its population was 16,825,
up from 14,740 recorded during the
2002 Census.
Geography
The municipal okrug borders
Nevsky Avenue
Nevsky Prospect ( rus, Не́вский проспе́кт, r=Nevsky Prospekt, p=ˈnʲɛfskʲɪj prɐˈspʲɛkt) is the main street (high street) in the federal city of St. Petersburg in Russia. It takes its name from the Alexander Nevsky La ...
in the north, the
Neva River in the east,
Obvodny Canal
Obvodny Canal (russian: Обводный канал, lit. Bypass Canal) is the longest canal in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which in the 19th century served as the southern limit of the city. It is long and flows from the Neva River near Al ...
in the south, and
Ligovsky Avenue
Ligovsky Prospekt () is a major street in Saint Petersburg. Before the establishment of the city, it was a street leading to Novgorod, used by the people living in the villages around the Neva delta.
Between 1718-25, when Saint Petersburg wa ...
in the west.
Architecture
Places of interest include the
Moskovsky railway terminal and
Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, in the belief that this was the site of the Neva Battle in 1240 when Alex ...
.
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Tsentralny District, Saint Petersburg