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5 unusual facts about Sosnovo, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast


Kamennogorsk

A new railway to Sosnovo and Losevo is under construction.

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.

Vsevolozhsky District

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


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.

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.

Naum Senyavin

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

Priozersky District

Another railroad, connecting Vyborg with Hiitola via Kamennogorsk, serves as a stretch of the border with Vyborgsky District.

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.


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