Olgino (russian: О́льгино) is a historical area in
Lakhta-Olgino Municipal Okrug
Lakhta-Olgino Municipal Okrug (russian: муниципа́льный о́круг Ла́хта-О́льгино) is a municipal okrug of Primorsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, comprising that city's historical are ...
of
St. Petersburg,
Russia
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, located south-west of the area of
Lakhta and east of
Lisy Nos
Lisy Nos (russian: Ли́сий Нос; literally, "fox's nose"; fi, Revonnenä) is a municipal settlement in Primorsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on the cape of the same name in the northern part of th ...
. This part of the
Neva Bay
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coast was owned in the mid-19th century by Count Stenbock-Fermor, of Swedish provenance, who bestowed upon it the name of his wife Olga. In the early 20th century, Olgino emerged as a prosperous
dacha
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village north of the Russian capital. Among its inhabitants was the poet
Korney Chukovsky
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky ( rus, Корне́й Ива́нович Чуко́вский, p=kɐrˈnʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɕʊˈkofskʲɪj, a=Kornyey Ivanovich Chukovskiy.ru.vorb.oga; 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most p ...
. Olgino was incorporated into the city of Leningrad in January 1963. It is considered St. Petersburg's counterpart to
Rublyovka
Rublevka or Rublyovka (russian: Рублёвка) is the unofficial name of a prestigious residential area in the western suburbs of Moscow, Russia, located along Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway, Podushkinskoe, 1st Uspenskoe and 2nd Uspenskoe highway ...
, the most exclusive neighbourhood of
Moscow
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.
Office of trolls
From the summer of 2013, there was a base of at least hundred
internet trolls
In slang, a troll is a person who posts or makes inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages online (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, a online video game), or in real life, with the int ...
in Olgino, who were paid for distributing messages via Internet to support Russian propaganda.
* In October 2014 it became known that the trolls had moved to Savushkina street (
Primorskiy district in
St. Peterburg).
СМИ: «Ольгинские тролли» стали «савушкинскими»
. Lentizdat.ru. 28.10.2014
* In a sense, "Olgino" can be met nowadays as a way to call names, as in "kind regards to Olgino comrades".
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Primorsky District, Saint Petersburg