hidden "Red Pathfinders", a local history study movement "Red Pathfinder" is a local history study movement. It has arisen in the second half of the 1960s among school-children and students. The newspaper "Leninskiye Iskri" ("Lenin's Sparks", L.) became the initiator of the movement, later it became an... more

hidden Reference and statistic editions of the Leningrad Oblast (St. Petersburg Gubernia) and St. Petersburg eparchy. Reference and statistic editions of the Leningrad Oblast (St. Petersburg Gubernia) and St. Petersburg eparchy. The gubernia and oblast. The first gubernia reference edition was "Opisaniye Sanktpeterburg. Gub. Po uyezdam I stanam" ("The... more

hidden Repin, Ilya Yefimovich (1844 - 1930) REPIN, Ilya Yefimovich (1844–1930), artist, teacher. He lived in St.Petersburg since 1863. He studied at School of Painting at the Society of Arts Promotion (teacher I.N. Kramskoy), in the period 1864-71 he studied in the Academy of Fine Arts... more

hidden Repnikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1882-1940), a scientist Repnikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1882-1940), an archaeologist, researcher of Staraya Ladoga and other archaeological sites of the Leningrad Oblast. From 1902 he worked at the Archaeology Committee and the Russian Archaeologic Society, after the... more

hidden Reserves Reserves (Sanctuaries in the international classification) . This is category of special protected natural territories which founded for protection or restoration the components of nature and for maintenance the common ecological balance. Some... more

hidden Resettlements of the 1945 - 1950s Resettlements of the 1945 - 1950s were migrations which were caused by political (eviction of some categories of citizens who were considered as unreliable, including the activities for cleaning up the frontier) and economical (the necessity of... more

hidden Restoration of buildings of architectural and historic interest. Restoration of buildings of architectural and historic interest. The first experience of the research restoration of the Russian Middle Ages monuments in the territory of the pesent-day Leningrad Oblast dates from 1846-1847, when in the Ivangorod... more

hidden Resurrection Monastery, the The Monastery of the Resurrection (The Tosno district, Macarius hermitage). It was located on the left bank of the Lezna River about 20 kilometres to the North-East from Lyuban. The monastery was founded in the first half of the 16th century on the... more

hidden Retyun Rural Library, the THE RETYUN RURAL LIBRARY (Retyun Village, Luga District). The first library in the Retyun Volost was opened in 1887. In the Soviet period it was located in Shiltsevo Village and worked as a reading room. In the years of the Great Patriotic War the... more

hidden Reviews and festivals of folk art v. The folk art reference

hidden Rif, fort reference

hidden "Rimsky-Korsakov in the Luga Land", festival reference

hidden Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich (1844-1908), a musician RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolay Andreyevich (1844, Tikhvin Town - 1908, Lyubensk estate S.-Petersburg Gubernia), composer, teacher, conductor, public figure. In 1862 Rimsky-Korsakov graduated from the Navy military school, until 1865 he served on board... more

hidden Rinaldi, Antonio (ca. 1709 - 1794), an architect Antonio Rinaldi (ca. 1709 - 1794), an architect. He originated from italy. From 1752 Rinaldi served under the Hetman of Malaya Russia K.G. Razumovsky (he designed and built in towns of Baturin, Glukhov, Kozelets, Pochep). From 1754 he worked in St.... more

hidden Ristimyaki cemetery reference

hidden "Road of Victory", an obelisk reference

hidden Roads ROADS. Historically, the road network in the territory of Leningrad oblast has been developing unevenly: the regions east of the Volkhov River are worse provided with R. because the principal economic, military, and cultural centers have always been... more

hidden "Rodnik" ("Spring"), a city leisure centre reference

hidden Roerich, Nikolay Konstantinovich (1874 - 1947), an artist NICHOLAS ROERICH (Rerikh, Nikolai Konstantinovich) (1874–1947), artist, archeologist, traveler. In the period 1893-97 he studied simultaneously at the Law Department of St.Petersburg University and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the class of... more

hidden Rogaty (Horned) Fortress reference

hidden Role games “ROLEVYE IGRY” (“ROLE-PLAY GAMES/RPG”). Live games, the game participants some time live the life of chosen characters. The sources of RPG scenarios – history, literature, cinema, computer strategies, Japanese cartoons, etc. Favourite subjects ... more

hidden Romanovka, a country estate reference

hidden "Romanovka", a park reference

hidden Ronka, a country estate reference

hidden Ropsha palace-and-park ensemble The Ropsha palace-and-park ensemble (the settlement of Ropsha, the Lomonosov District). It is a building of architectural and historic interest and landscape architecture art of the 18th century. It is one of palace-and-park ensembles that were... more

hidden Ropsha Settlement Library, the reference

hidden Ropsha, a country estate reference

hidden Ropsha, settlement ROPSHA, a village in Lomonosov District. Population: 847. Located on the Ropsha Heights near the Strelka River, at the crossing of the Kipen-Strelna highway and Dyatlitsi-Krasnoye Selo. The toponym originates from Novgorod’s name Khrap or Khrapsha.... more

hidden Ropshinsky Canal, the ROPSHA CANAL (Old Peterhof Canal), a part of the Peterhof fountain water passage that is the gravity hydraulic system. It originates on the Ropsha Hills, from the Shingarka (River) (or Shinkarka, or Fabrichnaya River.) Length: 24 km, width: 6.4 m,... more

hidden Roshchino, urban settlement ROSHCHINO (Raivola [Finnish] before 1947), an urban settlement in Vyborg District. Population: 9,400. It is situated the bank of the Roschinka river (former Raivolanjoki), at the railway station of the same name of the St. Petersburg-Vyborg branch.... more