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Memorial "Lake Ladoga Flotilla"
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Memorials to internationalist - soldiers
Memorials to internationalist - soldiers devoted to the Soviet soldiers who perished in Afghanistan during 1979-1989. 92 citizens of the Leningrad Oblast have not come back from the Afghanistan War. The perpetuation of their memory was gone off the... more


Memorials to the Great Patriotic War
Memorials to the Great Patriotic War. The idea of creating memorials on the firing lines of the Leningrad defence appeared in the years of World War II. The first temporary monuments on the line of the Leningrad front were builtin 1944-45 after the... more


"Memories of Heart", historical event
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Merchants' Yards
Gostinniye dvori - Merchants' yards. Numerous wooden shops and commodity stores, concentrated on market squares of gubernia uyezd towns, created threat of fires. For decreasing the threat and common accomplishment of towns since the 18th century... more


Mercuryev, Vasily Vasilyevich (1904-1978), an actor
MERKURYEV, Vasily Vasilyevich (1904–1978), theatre and film actor, teacher, director, People’s artist of the USSR (1960). In 1926 he graduated from the Leningrad college of stage arts (teacher L.S. Vivien). Merkuryev worked in different Leningrad... more


Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich (1866-1941), a literary man
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich (1866-1941), a literary man, religious philosopher. D.S. Merezhkovsky graduated from the Historic and Philological Faculty of the St. Petersburg University in 1888. In 1889 Merezhkovsky married Z.N. Gippius.... more


Mesolithic monuments, The.
The Mesolithic monuments. Mesolithic (the Middle Stone Age) is the transitional epoch between the Palaeolithic period and the Neolithic period (in Europe - from c 10000 to 7000 BC). Microlite silicon tools, various goods made of bone and horn are... more


"Mestnaya vlast" ("The Local Authorities"), the supplement for the newspaper "Trudovaya slava" ("The Labour Fame")
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"Metelitsa ( "Snow-Storm"), Russian folk music instruments orchestra
“METELITSA” (“SNOWSTORM”), the State Russian folk orchestra. Founded in 1988. The first concert was held on the 14th of March 1989 in Tikhvin Town. In 1992 the orchestra acquired a status of a State orchestra. Organizer, unchallenged creative... more


Mga children art school
MGA URBAN SETTLEMENT CHILDREN’S ARTS SCHOOL (47, Kgasny Oktyabr av., Mga Urban Settlement). It was founded in 1970, founder – Kirovsk District administration. The first head teacher (up to 1983) – sculptor and teacher L.M. Bryzgalova. The... more


Mga House of Culture
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Mga River, the
MGA, a river, left-hand tributary of the Neva. Length: 55 km. Average flow rate in the mouth: 5.3 cu. m / s, catchment area: 709 sq. km. It flows out of Lake Maluksinskoye in the central part of Leningrad Oblast and it flows into the Neva within... more


Mga Settlement Library, the
THE MGA SETTLEMENT LIBRARY (62 Komsomolsky Prospekt, Mga Urban Settlement). The library took over from Mga Settlement Public Library (opened in 1913) and a library working at culture-and-educational association “Iskra” (founded in 1917). The... more


Mga, urban settlement
MGA, an urban settlement in Kirovsk District. Population: 9,600. The name originates from the Mga River on whose left bank the settlement is situated. M. has a favorable transport position as a large railway junction, having also access to... more


Michurinskoye Settlement Rural Library, the
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Michurinskoye, settlement
MICHURINSKOYE (Finnish Valkjarvi = “white lake” before 1948), a settlement in Priozersk District. Population: 2100. Located on the shore of Lake Michurinskoye (former Valkjarvi.) In 1948 it was successively renamed Belozerskoye, Krivko (in memory of... more


Mikhaylovsky, Nikolay Konstantinovich (1842-1904), a literary man
Mikhaylovsky, Nikolay Konstantinovich (1842-1904), a critic, publicist, sociologist, publig figure. He learned at the Military School of Mines during 1856-1862, attended lectures at the Faculty of Law of the St. Petersburg Iniversity. Mikhaylovsky... more


Military Orthodox churches
Military Orthodox churches began to organize in Saint Petersburg in the beginning of the 18th c chiefly as field churches. In 1800 the post of the military ober-priest was introduced by the order of Paul I (later it was named the arch-presbuter... more


Military-historical celebrations and events
MILITARY AND HISTORICAL FESTIVITIES AND ACTIVITIES. The Russian Federation federal law “O Dnyakh Voinskoy Slavy (Pobednykh Dnyakh ) Rossiy” (“About Days of Military Glory (Victory Days ) of Russia”) was issued in 1995. The oblast programme,... more


Minkina, a country estate
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"Mir bozhy" ("God's World"), a newspaper
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"Mir" ("The Peace"), a Jewish Family Club (Boksitogorsk town)
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"Mirny" ("Peaceful"), cinema (Lodeinoye Pole Town)
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"Mon Repos Park", a state museum-reserve
"Mon Repos Park", a state historical and architectural and natural museum-reserve (Vyborg Town, the settlement Severny). It was founded according to the academician D.S. Likhachev's initiative in 1968. The museum-reserve is located on the territory... more


Monastery of St.Basil, the
The Monastery of St.Basil (the village of Chernavino, the Volkhov district). The Monastery of St.Basil was founded before 1555, the church was devoted to Saint Basil the Great. In the 1580s the monastery was brought in ruins. According to the... more


Monrepo, a country estate
Monrepo, a country estate (the town of Vyborg, on the coast of the Zashchitny Bay of the Gulf of Vyborg in the northern part of Tverdysh Island). The park creating on the island started in 1760 when the land became the estate of the Vyborg... more


"Monument of Reconciliation"
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"Monument To Independence"
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Mordvinov, Isaaky Petrovich (1871-1925), a literary man, scientist
Mordvinov, Isaaky Petrovich (1871, Tikhvin Town -1925, Tikhvin Town), a local historian, literary man, enlightener. From 1885 Mordvinov worked as a volost clerk in the Bolshegorsky volost of the Tikhvin uyezd. V.D. Krenke has the great ... more

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