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Zabolotsky, Pyotr Yefimovich (1803-1866), an artist
ZABOLOTSKY, Pyotr Yefimovich (1803, Tikhvin Town – 1866), artist. He was born in a bourgeois (from other sources – in a peasant) family. In 1826, on A.R. Tomilov’s advice, he entered the St.Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts as an auditor... more


Zaborovskaya, a country estate
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Zaborye House of Culture
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Zaborye Rural Library, the
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Zaborye, settlement
ZABORYE, a settlement in Boksitogorsk District. Population: 1468. It is located on the left bank of the Lid River. It is adjacent to the station of the October Railroad of the same name. The Olyeshi-Somino motor road having access to the Novaya... more


Zacherenye, a country estate
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"Zadorinka" ("The impassioned"), dancing ensemble
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Zakharov, Andreyan (Adrian) Dmitriyevich (1761-1811), an architect
Andreyan (Adrian) Dmitriyevich Zakharov (1761-1811), an architect. From 1767 to 1782 he learned at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts from Yu.M. Felten and A.A. Ivanov. Then till 1786 he learned at Zh.F. Shalgren's workshop in Paris. From 1787 to... more


Zakhozhskoye lace
ZAKHOZHSKOYE LACE, bobbin lace, composing a special group of Russian decorative lace. Historically formed name "Zakhonskoye" is connected with locality Zakhonye, which in the end of the XIXc. united several settlements of Gorodishche Volost,... more


Zapolye, a country estate
Zapolye, a country estate (the settlement of Volodarskoye, the Luga district). In 1804 the State Councillor Ya. S. Mirkovich owned the estate. Under him wooden outhouses, service buildings, a brick-yard and workshops were built. Since 1819 F.Ya.... more


Zaporozhskoye, settlement
ZAPOROZHSKOYE (Finnish Metsapirtti = “wood hut” before 1948), a settlement in Priozersk District. Population: 1900. In the 1499/1500 scribe roll of Vodskaya Pyatina it is mentioned as “Na cheperte” village. In 1792, a Lutheran church was built... more


Zaporozhye House of Culture
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Zaporozhye Rural Library, the
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"Zarya" ("Dawn"), cinema (Svetogorsk Town)
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Zasodimsky, Pavel Vladimirovich (1843-1912), a writer
Zasodimsky, Pavel Vladimirovich (1843-1912), a writer. During 1863-1864 he learned at the Law Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University (but he did not graduate the course). Zasodimsky was under the influence of the revolutionary narodniks... more


Zatishye, a country estate
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Zatulenye, a country estate
Zatulenye, a country estate (Zatulenye Village, the Luga District). A wooden manor-house with pillars at the façade and a mezzanine was built in the 1810s by Rear Admiral M.M. Muravyev who received Zatonye estate as the dowry of his wife, nee... more


Zelenets Holy Trinity Monastery, the
The Zelenets Monastery of the Holy Trinity (the railway Station Zelenets, the Volkhov district). It was founded between 1565 and 1570 by Venerable Martiriy, a monk of the Tikhvin Monastery, on Green island among swamps. The first churches , the... more


Zelyony chutor (Green Farm), a country estate
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Zenkov, Semyon Nikolayevich (1877-1941), an artist
ZENKOV, Semyon Nikolayevich (1877, Lyugovichi Village, Olonets Gubernia; modern Lodeinoye Pole District, Leningrad Oblast – 1941), artist. He was born and brought up in a peasant family. He started to learn painting at Aleksandro-Svirsky Trinity... more


Zhabino, a country estate
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Zhalniks (sepulcrums).
Zhalniks (sepulcrums), burial places of the rural population of the Novgorod land of the 12th -15th centuries. On the Leningrad Oblast territory there are known zones of the Old Russian farming colonization: the Luga-Oredezh region, the Izhora... more


Zhelyazevich, Rudolf Andreyevich (1811- 187?), an architect
Rudolf Andreyevich Zhelyazevich (1811- 187?), an architect, building expert. He learned abroad. Rudolf Andreyevich Zhelyazevich was an academician of architeture (1842) and a professor of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1845). He worked at the... more


Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreyevich (1783-1852), a literary man
Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreyevich (1783-1852), a poet, tramslator, graphic artist. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1818), an academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841). He graduated from the Noble Boarding School at... more


Zhuravlyovo Rural Library, the
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Zhuravlyovo, village
ZHURAVLYOVO, a village in Boksitogorsk District. Population: 166. It is located on the Suglinka River (Chadogosch River basin.) Close to Z. is the Zabelino-Krasnaya Rechka road with access to the Novaya Ladoga-Yaroslavl route. The name originates... more


Zhuravsky, Dmitry Ivanovich (1821-1891), architect
Dmitry Ivanovich Zhuravsky (1821–1891), an engineer, Privy Councillor (1876), a winner of the Demidov Prise (1855). In 1842 he graduated from the Institute of the Railway Engineers Academy. During 1842-50 he took part in pioneering, designing and... more


"Znamya truda" ("The Flag of Labour"), a newspaper
"Znamya truda" ("The Flag of Labour") (3 Bank Street, Slantsi Town), a social and political newspaper of the Slantsi District. The newspaper was founded on February 12, 1944, straight away after the liberation of Slantsi Town from German... more


Zolotaryev, David Alekseyevich (1885-1937), a scholar
David Alekseyevich Zolotaryov (1885-1935) was an anthropologist, ethnographer, professor (1918). From 1903 to 1904 he was a student of the medical department of the Moscow University; from 1904 to 1907 he lived in Paris, listened to the lectures in... more


Zosima (Verkhovsky) (1767-1838), Saint, clergy figure
Zosima (Zakhary Vasilyevich Verkhovsky, 1767-1838), the Venerable. Zakhary Vasilyevich Verkhovsky served in the Life Guards. In 1786 Verkhovsky left his estate, went to Bryansk forests to the scete of the elder hieromonk Adrian (Blinsky) where he... more