Vasileostrovsky District (russian: Василеостро́вский райо́н) is a
district
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of the
federal city
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Germany
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of
St. Petersburg,
Russia
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. As of the
2010 Census, its population was 214,625;
down from 236,856 recorded in the
2002 Census.
Geography
The district occupies the territories of
Vasilyevsky and
Dekabristov Island
Dekabristov Island (russian: остров Декабристов, lit=Decembrists Island), known prior to 1926 as Goloday Island (остров Голодай – possibly a corruption of a British merchant name Halliday) is an island in Vasileost ...
s and includes a smaller
Serny Island
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The inhabita ...
.
History
The district was one of the first established in Petrograd in 1917.
Municipal divisions
Vasileostrovsky District comprises the following five
municipal okrug
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s:
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Ostrov Dekabristov
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Gavan
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Morskoy
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Vasilyevsky
Transportation
Vasilievsky island is connected to the mainland by 6 bridges, 2 bridge of the
Western Rapid Diameter
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and 4 other bridges built before.
Also on Vasilevsky island there are 3 underground stations, which are on the
green line they are the
Primorskaya and
Vasileostrovskaya
Vasileostrovkaya ''(russian: Василеостро́вская)'' - is a station on the Nevsko–Vasileostrovskaya Line in St Petersburg.
It is named after Vasilyevsky Island
Vasilyevsky Island (russian: Васи́льевский о́ст ...
, and the
purple line station
Sportivnaya. Three more stations were also built on the
orange line.
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