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Opolye Village


Group name
Kingisepp District


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Bulanov, Ivan Iudovich (1830 - 1893), an architect
Ivan Iudovich Bulanov (1830–1893), an architect of St. Petersburg Eparchy. He was certified by the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1866. In the 1860s - 1880s Bulanov built more then 30 profitable houses, mansions of Ye.T. Osipova (1879), A.N.... more


Kingisepp District
KINGISEPP DISTRICT, a part of Leningrad Oblast. Population: 74,300, of which, 52,100 live in the adm. center Kingisepp Town. Area: 2842.1 sq. km. It has 191 rural settlements. It was established in 1927.It borders with Lomonosov, Volosovo, and... more


Lyalitsi, a country estate
Lyalitsi, a country estate (the village of Lyalitsi, the Kingisepp district). "Myza Yamskovitskaya" (the grange of Yamskovitskaya), that was the state property for a long time, was presented by Peter III to Count A.I. Shuvalov, the Head of the... more


Opolye, village
OPOLYE, a village in Kingisepp District. Population: 1066. The toponym originates from “opolye” = field edge, or elevated woodless plain. It is locate at the crossing of the Tallinn Highway and the Opolye-Volosovo-Gatchina road in the west of the... more


Post stations
Post stations. On the post roads which were led from Saint-Petersburg to Yamburg, Moscow and Shlisselburg, since 1722 stage yards (post stations) with stables appeared which were at 20-30 versts distance in adapted peasant's log hut. When in 1785 in... more


Ruska, Luigi (1762 - 1822), an architect
Luigi Ruska (1762 - 1822), an architect. Ruska originated from Switzerland. In 1783 he arrived into st. Petersburg, he worked as a bricklayer with Yu.M. Felten, G. Quarenghi, F.I. Volkov, E.T. Sokolov, V. Brenna. He started working independently in... more


The Church of the Rising of the Cross (Opolye Village, Kingisepp District)
The Church of the Rising of the Cross (Opolye Village). The original wooden church was built in Chelyudi on the territory of the Opolye Vozdvizhensky Pogost before 1500; it was rebuilt in 1734, it was dismantled in 1874. The stone church with... more


Toponymia of the Leningrad Oblast, the
The leningrad Oblast toponymia. Toponymia is the combination of toponyms, proper names of geographical objects. There are several kinds of toponyms: hydronym, a name of water object; oikonym, a name of a settlement; horonym, an element of relief;... more


Vodskaya Land
VODSKAYA LAND (Votskaya Land), historic, cultural, and administrative region of the middle-age Rus, located in the north-western part of Veliky Novgorod’s lands (western part of the current Leningrad Oblast.) First mentioned in the chronicle c.... more


Volosovo District
VOLOSOVO DISTRICT, a part of Leningrad Oblast. Area: 2680.5 sq. km. Population: 46,900. Adm. center: Volosovo Town. The district comprises Kikerino urban settlement, and 202 rural localities. It borders Kingisepp, Lomonosov, Gatchina, and Luga... more