Kalininsky District () 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 504,641;
up from 469,409 recorded in the
2002 Census.
Etymology
The district was named after
Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (, ; 3 June 1946) was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the first chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1938 until his resignation in 1946. From ...
(1875–1946), Russian Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician.
Municipal divisions
Kalininsky District comprises the following seven
municipal okrugs:
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Akademicheskoye
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Finlyandsky
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Grazhdanka
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Piskaryovka
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Prometey
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Severny
Overview
The historical nucleus of the district, together with its western neighbour
Vyborgskiy District, is in the south, on the right bank of the
Neva
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, forming the traditionally industrial Vyborg Side part of the city, the Side being the area between the Neva and the right bank of its north most major distributary the Bolshaya Nevka.
Many factories, opened there in the 19th century by Russian and European entrepreneurs, were nationalized after the Socialist Revolution of 1917 and further developed throughout most of the 20th century until 1990s fall of the Soviet Union when many of industrial facilities were closed down or moved out of town. During the Soviet times there appeared in the district several industrial research and development institutes, some of them having their roots in the local Polytechnical Institute. The early 20th-century revolutionary history of the Vyborg Side was shown in an eponymous
feature film
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.
In this industrial environment there still are 19th-century apartment buildings, giving way in some places to their counterparts from the 1930s to the 1950s.
To the north of the industrial area, rural and semirural homes gave way since the early 1960s to mass-produced 5-, 9- and 12-storey concrete blocks of flats with spacious green courtyards and broad streets. Green areas include several parks.
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States and territories established in 1936