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unusual facts about Luga, Leningrad Oblast



Arthur Mülverstadt

In August 1941 the division was fighting with 269th Infantry Division against the Soviet forces to take the town of Luga.

Edward Beddington-Behrens

Irina was born at Luga on 14 September 1917, the daughter of Prince Sergei Alexandrovich Obolensky and Liubov Alexandrovna Narychkine.

Estonian Auxiliary Police

The 37th and 40th battalions were fighting against the partisans in the Pskov Oblast, as was the 38th battalion in the Luga-Pskov-Gdov region.

Estonian War of Independence

But the 7th Red Army received reinforcements and counterattacked, pushing the White Russians back, until the front was stabilised with the support from the Estonian 1st Division on the Luga and Saba rivers.

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.

Juni and Luga

Mark "Juni" Sampson and Carl "Luga" Bailey were escaped criminals stalking Randy Diego in the Belizean television series Noh Matta Wat! They are assistants to drug dealer Ray Phillips and are responsible for some of the crimes taking place during the timeline of the series.

Kingiseppsky

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

Kirishi Power Station

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

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.

LLC Transoil

Since January 2011, LLC Transoil started transportation of light petrochemicals to the Rosneftbunker terminal in the Ust-Luga port in the Leningrad region.

Luga

Luga River, a river in Novgorod and Leningrad Oblasts, Russia

Luzhsky District

Another one, lying to the west, connects the Baltiysky railway station of Saint Petersburg and Pskov, passing through Luga.

Mateo Noriel Luga

General Mateo Noriel Luga is an Ibanag revolutionary, was named one of the 100 prominent natives of Cebu.

National Container Company

In 2003 NCC signed a contract with Eurogate (a European container terminal operator) with the intention of creating a container terminal in Ust-Luga.

Naum Senyavin

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

Order of Battle for the Leningrad Strategic Defensive Operation

The LVI Motorized Corps advanced towards Luga, bypassing the city to the north, breaking through Soviet positions south of Kingisepp, Krasnogvardeisk, and reached the Pulkovo Heights.

Took part in the fighting from mid-July in Luga through 16 September when the group was disbanded in Leningrad.

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.

Shimsky District

It is also connected by roads with Luga, Staraya Russa, and Volot.


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