hidden "Faces", the Amateur People Theatre reference

hidden "Faith and Faithfulness", monument to Internationalist-Soldiers reference

hidden "Far Line", a memorial reference

hidden Farmsteads FARMSTEADS, settlements (mostly of one homestead), separated into a farm on a plot of land individually owned or used. In the Russian tradition, the term F. as applied to homesteads in Finnish villages of a scattered planning (in particular,... more

hidden Façade carving FAÇADE CARVING. With the development of peasant woden architecture, woodcarving also developed. Carving was used for decoration of spouts under the roof. Carving (at first blind carving, in the end of the XIX c. – carving with holes) was also used... more

hidden Felten, Yuri Matveyevich (George Friedrich) (1730 - 1801), an architect Velten, Yuri Matveyevich (George Friedrich) (1730 - 1801), an architect, teacher. Felten learned at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences???? during 1740-1745, in 1750 he graduated from the Tyubingen University. He was the chief architect of the... more

hidden Festival of Puppet Theatres of the Leningard Oblast FESTIVAL OF THE LENINGRAD OBLAST PUPPET THEATRES. It has been held in the Leningrad Oblast since 1991. In the last years it got the name “Kukol’ny Dom” (“A Doll’s House”). The festival is held once in two years, its program includes puppet shows of... more

hidden Festival of Press of the Leningrad Oblast reference

hidden Festival of the Karelia art FESTIVAL OF KARELIAN ART. It was held in Priozersk Town in June 1999. The founders are: the Leningrad Oblast Government Culture Committee, the Culture Committee under Municipal Institution “Priozersky Raion” (“Priozersk District”). On the... more

hidden Finland FINLAND, country in Northern Europe. Borders Sweden, Norway, the RF (Murmansk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast.) Located on the coasts of the Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea. Area: 338,000 sq. km (abt. 10% being inland... more

hidden Finnish military, monuments to reference

hidden Finnish military, monuments to reference

hidden Finno-Ugric nations Finno-Ugric nations are ethnic communities speaking the languages of the Finno-Ugric group which is a part (together with the Samoyedic and Yukaghir groups) of the Ural (Uralic-Yukaghir) language family. Finno-Ugric nations have lived historically... more

hidden Finns Finns (old use - Chukhnas, their native name is Suomalaiset) is an ethnic community which is a part of the population of the Leningrad Oblast. In the world there are more than 5 million Finns. They are the main population of Finland (4,6 million... more

hidden Finns - Inkeri, see Ingermanlandia Finns reference

hidden Finns of Ingermanlandia Finns of Ingermanlandia (Finns-Inkeri, Finns of Leningrad; old use - Chukhonets, Maimists; their own native names - Soumalaiset, Inkerin Suomolaiset) are an ethnic community. They speak local accents of the eastern dialects (the Baltic-Finnic... more

hidden Fisherman Day, holiday reference

hidden "Fisherwoman", a folklore company reference

hidden Flklore centres FOLKLORE CENTRES. The program of culture development in the Leningrad Oblast is worked out taking into account multiethnic population and it stimulates creation of conditions for revival, preservation and development of native population’s national... more

hidden "Flowers of Russia", a circus art festival reference

hidden "Flowers of the planet", a children festival reference

hidden Fofanov, Konstantin Mikhaylovich (1862 – 1911), a poet Konstantin Mikhaylovich Fofanov (1862 – 1911), a poet.He had little formal education. He appeared in various (mostly St. Petersburg) periodicals from the early 1880s ("Niva"(Field), "Russkoe Bogatstvo"(The Russian Wealth)," Severny Vestnik"(Northern... more

hidden Folk art AMATEUR AND FOLK ARTS. There are about 50 Amateur and Folk Arts Centres in the Leningrad Oblast, including Amateur Talent Centres (theatrical, musical and ethnographical amateur groups), Arts and Crafts Centres. About 2600 amateur and folk arts... more

hidden Folk art centres CENTRES OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, state culture institutions, organizational and methodical centres of amateur and folk art and clubs. There are three such kind culture institutions in the Leningrad Oblast: 1) Centre of Social and... more

hidden Folklore FOLKLORE of folks living in the Leningrad Oblast (ref. Ethnic communities in Leningrad Oblast) is multilayer polyethnic heritage which appeared as a result of rich history of the region. One of the first people to study the Veps in the period of... more

hidden "For Victims of WWII", memorial sign reference

hidden Fornosovo children music school reference

hidden Fornosovo House of Culture reference

hidden Fornosovo Settlement Library, the reference

hidden Fornosovo, urban settlement FORNOSOVO, an urban settlement in Tosno District. Population: 4,900. It is situated at Novolisino Station at the crossing of the Gatchina-Tosno and Pavlovsk-Novgorod railway lines. It appeared in 1949 as a workers’ settlement for development of... more