hidden Staraya Ladoga Fortress Staraya Ladoga Fortress is located on the bank of the Volkhov River near the confluence of the Ladozhka River. It protected Novgorod lands from attacks fron North, from the side of Sweden. According to annalistic data the first wooden... more

hidden Staraya Ladoga Historical and Architectural and Archaeological Museum-reserve, the The Staraya Ladoga Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Museum-reserve (the Volkhov District, the village of Staraya Ladoga, 19 Volkhov Prospekt). It was founded on 23 August 1966 and was presented for visitors on 15 July 1971. The... more

hidden Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. John the Precurser 1150 / 1000 the Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. John the Precurser (Ivansky, Ivanovsky). It was founded on Malysheva Mountain (the northern part of Ladoga Lake) probably by Clement , the archbishop of Novgorod (he governed the eparchy during... more

hidden Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker The Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nikolsky; the village of Staraya Ladoga). On a local legend the monastery was founded in the 13th century in honour of the victory of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky in the Neva battle. ... more

hidden Staraya Ladoga Rural Library, the THE STARAYA LADOGA RURAL LIBRARY (1 Sovetstkaya Street, Staraya Ladoga Village). The library took over from the reading room which was open in 1913 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty at the request / solicitation of... more

hidden Staraya Ladoga Rural Library, the reference

hidden Staraya Ladoga, Village STARAYA LADOGA (Ladoga before 1704), a village in Volkhov District. Population: 2200. Located on the left bank of the Volkhov River where the Ladozhka (Yelena) River flows into it. The toponym is of a Baltic Finnish origin, from Alodejogi (lower... more

hidden "Staroladozhsky", a natural monument reference

hidden Starov, Ivan Yegorovich (1745 - 1808), an architect Ivan Yegorovich Starov (1745 - 1808), an architect, a founder of the Russian classicism style. He learned at the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts, continued the education in France and Italy. In 1769 Starov became an academician and from 1794 he... more

hidden "Stars Rain", children art festival reference

hidden "Stary Vyborg" ("Old Vyborg"), a club reference

hidden State Peasant University named after St. Cyril and St. Methodius PEASANTS’ STATE UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER KIRILL AND MEFODIY (KGU(“PSU”)) (73, Kirov av., Luga Town). It was founded according to resolution issued on 26 of June 1991 by the Executive Committee of Luga Town local authorities as Peasants’ Academic... more

hidden Stauberg, Aleksandr Yegorovich (1780 -1843), an architect Stauberg, Aleksandr Yegorovich (1780 -1843), an architect. Stauberg learned at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts during 1788-1801. His teacher was A.D. Zakharov. Aleksandr Yegorovich Stauberg served at the Engineer Department of the Ministry of... more

hidden "Steel Way", monument reference

hidden Stelyovo, a country estate reference

hidden "Step Beyond Horizon", a oblast holiday reference

hidden Stone Crosses Stone crosses are the essential part of zhalnik and earth burial grounds, cemeteries and on churches' pogosts of the Novgorod Land. Grave crosses were placed at the head of burial grounds. As far as destruction of desolate graves, crosses were... more

hidden "Storm", a memorial reference

hidden "Storm", a memorial reference

hidden Storozhensky St. Nicholas Monastery of St. Cyprian The Storozhensky St. Nicholas Monastery of St. Cyprian (the village of Storozhno, the Volkhov district). The middle of the 16th century is considered the time of the foundation of the monastery on the Storozhensky Cape of the Zagubsky Peninsula. ... more

hidden Strelnikov, Aleksey Vladimirovich (1942 - 2005), an actor STRELNIKOV, Aleksey Vladimirovich (1942–2005), director, artist. In 1966 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema (teacher N.P. Akimov). He worked as a teacher at Arts College (Odessa City), Institute of Culture... more

hidden Studing the local history of the Leningrad Oblast. Studing the local history of the Leningrad Oblast. The interest for studing the history, culture, geography of single regions and towns, which were included in the Leningrad Oblast now, became apparent from the middle of the 19th century among ... more

hidden Stuglevo, a country estate reference

hidden Suida, a country estate reference

hidden "Suida", a museum-estate "Suida", a museum-estate (the Gatchina district, Suida Village, 4 Central Street). Between the 12th and 15th centuries the Suida pogost was an administrative and territorial centres of the Koporye uyezd of the Vod pyatina. Peter I granted the... more

hidden "Summer Kolyadas", festival reference

hidden "Sun Beam", a puppet theatre reference

hidden Susanino House of Culture reference

hidden Susanino Rural Library, the reference

hidden Susanino, settlement SUSANINO, a settlement in Gatchina District. Population: 2200. Located at the railway station of the same name of the St. Petersburg-Oredezh branch. The settlement appeared in the early 1900s in the place of Malaya Kovshovka village, when local... more