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Boksitogorsk Town


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Boksitogorsk District


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Amateur People Theatres
PUBLIC THEATRES. There are more than 300 theatre companies and studios in the Leningrad Oblast. Public theatres form the basis of the amateur theatres movement – the Leningrad Oblast numbers 53 public theatres (35 drama theatres and 18 puppet... more


Art festivals
ARTS FESTIVALS, festivals of achievements in different kinds of art. As a rule, they are regularly held in most towns and some villages of the Leningrad Oblast. Since 1980 one of the oldest oblast festivals “Teatralnaya Vesna” (“Theatre Spring”)... more


Boksitogorsk District
BOKSITOGORSK DISTRICT, a part of Leningrad Oblast. Population: 34,800. Area: 7163 sq. km. Adm. center: Boksitogorsk Town. The district comprises Yefimovsky urban settlement and 275 inhabited localities. It borders Tikhvin District of Leningrad... more


Book Trade
BOOK TRADE.On the territory of Saint Petersburg Gubernia book trade showed slow progress due to the closeness of a large Saint Petersburg market which almost satisfied the public's need for books.By 1904 the specialized book trade had been... more


Children Art Schools
CHILDREN’S ARTS SCHOOLS (CAS). In the last years Children’s Musical Schools (CMS) and Children’s Painting Schools (CPS) have had a growing tendency for unification into Children’s Arts Schools (CAS). By 2007 the Leningrad oblast had had 104 CAS,... more


"Divya", a newspaper
"Divya" (17a Sixth catchment area, Tikhvin town), an information- analytical and advertising newspaper. It has been published from October 18, 1995. The newspaper founder is S.N. Yemelyanov. "Divya" is one of the first private newspapers in the... more


Kalinin, Mikhail Alekseyevich (1927-1973), a scientist
Kalinin, Mikhail Alekseyevich (1927, the village of Vyalgino of the Tikhvin district -1973, Boksitogorsk Town), a local historian, enlightener. M.A. Kalinin graduated from the Tikhvin Teacher's Training School in 1946. He studied at the Leningrad... more


Kislovsky (Kislovskoy), Sergey Vladimirovich (1897-1976), a scientist
Kislovsky (Kislovskoy), Sergey Vladimirovich (1897-1976), a scientist-geographer, an expert in toponymy, local historian. During the 1920s Kislovsky took an active part in the local history study movement in the Kashin uyezd of the Tver Gubernia and... more


Leningrad Oblast State University named after A.S. Pushkin
LENINGRAD OBLAST STATE UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER A.S. PUSHKIN (LOSU) (10, Peterburgskoye Highway, Pushkin Town). It was founded in 1992 as the State Leningrad Oblast Pedagogy Institute. Founders of the Institute were the Leningrad Oblast... more


Lenizdat (the Leningrad Publishing House)
Lenizdat (the Leningrad Publishing House). The Publishing House is founded in November 1917 as the publishing house of the Petrograd Soviet, from 1919 it was called Petrogosizdat (Petrograd State Publishing House), from 1924 it was called Lengiz... more


Local History Editions
Local History editions, on single districts and towns belonged to the Leningrad Oblast on the present days, began to publish in the end of the 19th century. Originally materials on the history of the oblast were published in "Gubernskiye novosyi"... more


Periodicals
Periodical press. Till 1917 the periodical press was not developed good in the St. Petersburg Gubernia. The newspaper "Cankt Peterburgskiye vedomosti" ("The St. Petersburg Bulletin", 1838-1916) and the weekly magazine "Sankt Peterburgsky dukhovny... more


Pikalyovo, town
PIKALYOVO, town in Boksitogorsk District. Population: 23,300. Located in the south-east of Leningrad Oblast, at the watershed of rivers of the Volga and Baltic basins, at the source of the Ryadan river, a left-hand branch of the Tikhvinka River, 45... more


Podborovye, settlement
PODBOROVYE, a settlement in Boksitogorsk District. Population: 767 (as of Jan. 1, 2002.) Located in the interfluve of the Oblomna and Lid Rivers, at the junction station of the October Railroad, and connected with a motor road to the Novaya... more


School museums
School museums began to establish in the Leningrad Oblast between 1950 - the 1960s in connection with developing the local history studing, heroic and patriotic and environmental movement among school children. Teachers of history and geography... more


"The province meetings of art masters of Russia", a musical festival
“PROVINTSIALNYE VSTRECHY MASTEROV ISKUSSTV ROSSII” (“MEETINGS OF RUSSIAN MASTERS OF ARTS IN THE COUNTRY”), oblast festival of classical music. It has been held since 1993 in Boksitogorsk Town. Initiators of the festival – director of... more


Typographical and Publishing Business
Typography and Publishing was developed comparatively poor in St. Petersburg gubernia, it was determined with the closeness to St. Petersburg, one of the most large scale printing and publishing centre. In 1904 there was a printing house in towns of... more


V.I. Lenin, monuments to
Monuments to V.I. Lenin. Ater V.I. Lenin's death Sovnarkom (The Soviet of People's Commissars) passed the resolution about the perpetuation his death. At first temporary monuments made of inexpensive materials (plaster of Paris, wood, concrete)... more


Zhuravlyovo, village
ZHURAVLYOVO, a village in Boksitogorsk District. Population: 166. It is located on the Suglinka River (Chadogosch River basin.) Close to Z. is the Zabelino-Krasnaya Rechka road with access to the Novaya Ladoga-Yaroslavl route. The name originates... more