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Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (the real name was Ulyanov)
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Gorkovskoye, settlement
GORKOVSKOYE, a settlement in Vyborg District. Population: 297. It appeared in 1948 as a result of integration of the villages of Neuvola (also Neivola) and Kirjavala. It was named after A. M. Gorky (Peshkov) who lived in Kirjavala village in the... more
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Ilyichovo, settlement
ILYICHOVO (Finnish Jalkala before 1948), a settlement in Vyborg District. Population: 1100. It is located between Lake Krasavitsa and Lake Dolgoye. The toponym Jalkala originates probably from a nickname of the residents (Finnish jalka = leg.) The... more
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Leninskoye, settlement
LENINSKOYE (Finnish Haapala before 1947), a settlement in Vyborg District. Population: 1800. Located on the bank of the Sestra River. The toponym Haapala originates from Haapanen, the name of the settlers who appeared in that area before the 17th... more
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Lenizdat (the Leningrad Publishing House)
Lenizdat (the Leningrad Publishing House). The Publishing House is founded in November 1917 as the publishing house of the Petrograd Soviet, from 1919 it was called Petrogosizdat (Petrograd State Publishing House), from 1924 it was called Lengiz... more
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Ulyanovka, urban settlement
ULYANOVKA (Sablino before 1922), an urban settlement in Tosno District. Population: 9200. It is situated on the Tosna and Sablinka rivers. The Moscow Highway extends close by. In the 1720s, there was Sablin’s tavern at that place, which gave the... more
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"V.I. Lenin House", a museum (Vyborg Town)
The V.I. Lenin House-museum (Vyborg Town, 15 Rubezhnaya Street) was founded in June 1958 as a branch of the V.I. Lenin Central Museum. The loghouse in the former village of Talikkala (a southern suburb of Vyborg Town), where V.I. Lenin lived from 24... more
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V.I. Lenin, monuments to
Monuments to V.I. Lenin. Ater V.I. Lenin's death Sovnarkom (The Soviet of People's Commissars) passed the resolution about the perpetuation his death. At first temporary monuments made of inexpensive materials (plaster of Paris, wood, concrete)... more
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Vyborg, town
VYBORG (Swedish Wiborg; Finnish Viipuri, until 1948), town, adm. center of Vyborg District. Population: 79,200. The toponym Vyborg originates from the Old Norse Wiborg = “sacred fortress.” It was founded in 1293 at the place of the Vuoksa River’s... more
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"Yalkala", a historic and ethnographic museum-reserve, the
"Yalkala", a historic and ethnographic museum-reserve (the Vyborg district, the settlement of Ilyichevo) is located on 12 rm from Zelenogorsk Town between lakes Dolgoye and Krasavitsa. The museum was established in 1993 on the basis of memorial... more
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