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19 unusual facts about Leningrad Oblast’


Battle of Kelja

In the weeks before the Soviet attack, the whole Taipale sector had been under heavy shelling and daily infantry attacks.

Gostilitsy

Gostilitsy is a village and the administrative center of Gostilitskoye Rural Settlement in Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located several kilometers west of the town of Petergof.

Kamennogorsk

A new railway to Sosnovo and Losevo is under construction.

The town is connected by roads with Vyborg, Svetogorsk, and Melnikovo.

Kingiseppsky

Kingiseppsky (rural locality), a rural locality (a logging depot settlement) in Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Lake Otradnoye

The shores of the lake are populated, with the settlements of Otradnoye, Plodovoye, Uralskoye, Solnechnoye, Kutuzovskoye, Yablonovka, Krasnopolye, and Tsvetkovo all are located at or close to the shore.

Latvian Riflemen Soviet Divisions

In Estonia, the regiment suffered heavy losses (from July 24 until August 4), then was surrounded, but broke out and fought in the Leningrad Oblast until October 20.

Naum Senyavin

Currently it is an urban-type settlement in Kirovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

The selo was destroyed during World War II and never restored, but the name was transferred in the 1920s to the settlement of Sinyavino which was serving peat production.

Nikolskoye, Tosnensky District, Leningrad Oblast

Nikolskoye is connected by roads with Otradnoye, Ulyanovka, and Krasny Bor.

Priozersky District

On May 16, 1940, Rautovsky District with the administrative center in the suburban settlement of Rautu was also established.

In particular, Rautu was renamed Sosnovo.

The Saint Petersburg – Hiitola railroad crosses the district from south to north passing Sosnovo, Priozersk, and Kuznechnoye.

Riga Zoo

In 1989-1993 expeditions were made to various places in the former Soviet Union (Ukraine, Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Southern Siberia, Primorsk, Sakhalin and Kunashir Island).

Roshchinsky

Roshchinskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation corresponding to Roshchinskoye Settlement Municipal Formation, an administrative division of Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Taipale

Taipale, former name of Solovyovo, a logging depot settlement in Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Tatu Vanhanen

Tatu Vanhanen (born April 17, 1929 in Vuoksenranta, Finland, now Ozyorskoye, Russia) is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere in Tampere, Finland.

Usadishche

Usadishche, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, a former rural locality in Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Vsevolozhsky District

Saint Petersburg – Hiitola railroad runs through Toksovo to Sosnovo and Priozersk.


Kirishi Power Station

Kirishi Power Station (Kirishskya GRES) is a thermal power station (GRES) at the town of Kirishi, Kirishsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

Rjurik Lonin

In 1963, Lonin made his first folkore collecting trip outside of Karelia, to the Veps villages of the Lodeĭnopol’skiĭ raĭon in the Leningrad Oblast’.

Roman Tsepov

Roman Igorevich Tsepov (Russian: Роман Игоревич Цепов, (July 22, 1962, Kolpino, Leningrad Oblast, USSR – September 24, 2004, Saint-Petersburg) was a Saint Petersburg businessman and confidant to Vladimir Putin during Putin's work at the Saint Petersburg City Administration.