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Leningradskaya oblast is an attractive destination for tourism and recreation: there are natural parks and reserves, sanatoriums and resorts, historical sights |
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Tour to Lodeinoe Pole is an opportunity of acquaintance with cultural and historical attractions of the district, which was founded by Peter I in 1702 |
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Tour to Vsevolzhsk is interesting, first of all, by opportunity to get acquaintance with historical and cultural monuments, churches and museums |
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In Vyborg one can see the only medieval castle on the territory of Russia and many historical monuments. Various festivals are regularly held here in summer |
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Antonievo-Dymsky Monastery was established in XIII cent. , by Reverend Anthony. It has been destructed several times, but now is revived and opened for pilgrims in 1997 |
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Church of the Holy Trinity – the Family Tomb of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz (1814 – 1884) – the famous Russian philanthropist and financier |
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The Oreshek Fortress is located on a small nut’s shape island. It was founded with the support of Grand Duke of Moscow, Yuri Daniilovich in 1323 |
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The Gatchina Palace was built by architect Antonio Rinaldi (1766-1781). It is the only one of country side palaces of St. Petersburg built in chateau-castle style |
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Ivangorod Fortress was built in 1492 by order of Ivan III. Now there is a museum of castles within the walls |
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Kazanskaya church is an Orthodox Parish of Our Lady of Kazan Icon. It was built in 1915 by the architect Nicholas Nikonov in Moscow-Yaroslavl style of XVI century |
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Konevets is an approximately 8. 5-km² island famous as the site of the Orthodox Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, founded in 1393 by Arseny of Novgorod |
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The Koporie fortress, built to protect the western frontiers of Russia, for its 700 years has never been attacked, therefore, it is well preserved |
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Korela is a monument of Novgorod defensive architecture of XIV century. Today on the territory of the fortress is situated a museum of the local history |
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Lake Ladoga is the largest in Europe, its length - 209 km, width - 130 km. There are 660 islands at Ladoga. 70 rivers fall into the lake, but only one flows out - the Neva |
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Lutheran church (Zelenogorsk) was built in 1908 by Finnish architect Josef Steinbeck in Northern Art Nouveau style. Heavily damaged during combat actions, now it is completely restored |
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Mannerheim Line is a unique military-historic monument of Russia - a reminder of Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 |
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Michael the Archangel Church is very beautiful. It has never been rebuilt, and preserved the original look to recent days |
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Excursion to Staraya Ladoga - is an acquaintance with monuments of an ancient Russian city built in 862 on the trade route “from the Varangians to the Greeks” |
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Tikhvin Uspensky Monastery is a place of pilgrimage - believers crave for touching the principal holy thing of the Monastery - Our Lady of Tikhvin miraculous icon |
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The remains of an ancient fortress of IX century - Tiversky gorodok you will find on the bank of the Vuoksa, near the Balachanovskoe lake |
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Fans of water tourism and extreme holidays meet on International Water Tourist Festival “Vuoksa” on the last weekend of June |
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Vvedensky Nunnery was founded 15 years ago in the churchyard ground Volodimirets (X century). There is a hotel for pilgrims |
