Sestroretsk
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Beloostrov Station
Saint Petersburg, Beloostrov, Beloostrov railway station
The Beloostrov railway station in Sestroretsk served as a border crossing with Finland until 1940, where the border ran along the Sestra River, and the bridge over it was painted in two colors. Before the revolution, the station was a small wooden house with a bell on a low platform, and access to it was only possible with a special pass accompanied by border guards. The new station building, constructed according to the design of architect Vorobyov by 1934, was distinguished by its monumentality and strict adherence to style, and its facades were decorated with reliefs titled "Socialist Industry," "Railway Transport," and "Technical Education." After the war, the building was not restored, and by the mid-1950s, a standard brick station building appeared in its place.
Gazebo (Sestroretsk)
Sestroretsk, Andreeva Street, 7
A wooden gazebo in Sestroretsk, located near the modern building No. 7 on Andreeva Street, is executed at the intersection of Russian style and Art Nouveau. Its design belongs to types that were found in albums of the early 20th century dedicated to dacha construction, and the plot belonged to Court Councilor B. P. Vulfson. During the restoration, specialists restored the lowest of the five discovered layers of paint, and at the end of 2007, conservation work on the ruins was carried out. Now, when restoring neighboring buildings, architects are guided by the appearance of the gazebo to avoid stylistic dissonance.
Spillway Canal (Sestroretsk)
Sestroretsk, Naberezhnaya Stroiteley
The Spillway Canal divides the city of Sestroretsk into two approximately equal parts and is a commercial fishing water body. Every year from the end of April to the end of May, men stand waist-deep in the water with "spiders" (fishing nets) to catch smelt before the dam closes. In Soviet times, motorboats used to travel this route from the pier in the "Dubki" Park, and south of the Sestroretsk railway station, the railway passes over the canal on a bridge whose supports were originally designed for two tracks. The historical names of the Razliv district and local streets are associated with the Gagarka stream, which was the predecessor of this water body.
Gagarinskaya Street (Sestroretsk)
Sestroretsk, Gagarinskaya Street
Gagarin Street in Sestroretsk got its name in the late 19th century from the Gagarka area, not after the cosmonaut, and acquired the shape of the letter G after merging with the former Gagarskaya Grivka in the 1930s. The Sestroretsky Overpass is located above the street; its official name was assigned on March 27, 2017, after the nearby railway station. The building of the former Almshouse, which later became a tuberculosis hospital, was completely demolished after 30 years of disuse, and the "House by Razliv" residential complex was built in its place.
Glukhoye Lake, Kurortny District
Sestroretsk, Doroga na Glukhoe Ozero
Lake Glukhoye is located in the Kurortny District of St. Petersburg, to the east of the Sestroretsky Razliv, 7 km from the village of Tarkhovka and 3 km northeast of Lenin's Hut. The reservoir lies at an altitude of 10 meters above sea level, whereas in 1941 the height of its surface was 8.7 meters. Neolithic burial mounds were excavated near the lake, which were studied by the archaeologist S. S. Gamchenko. An asphalt road from Lenin's Hut leads to this small lake, known from maps of the early 18th century.
Dacha of E. F. Vazhevskaya
Sestroretsk, Andreeva Street, 12
The dacha of E. F. Vazhevskaya in Sestroretsk is a monument of regional architectural significance, built in 1907 according to the design of architect Sergey Ginger. The pine building is executed in the traditions of Russian folk architecture with elements of Art Nouveau, for which it received the nickname "fairy-tale house". The facades have preserved paintings that, according to the assumption of local historians, could have been created based on the drawings of V. M. Vasnetsov. In the autumn of 2019, emergency works began in the building, for which piles were installed around the house for a temporary sarcophagus.
Klyachko Dacha
Sestroretsk, Lesnaya Street, 7
Klyachko's Dacha is a monument of wooden architecture in Sestroretsk, built in 1908 according to the design of architect Sergey Ginger. The building is located on Lesnaya Street and combines Russian architectural traditions with elements of Art Nouveau, characterized by an asymmetrical semicircular turret, numerous balconies, terraces, and high curvilinear roofs. On the first floor of the house were the doctor's reception room, office, laboratory, and dining room, while on the second floor were a billiard room, guest rooms, and children's rooms. In gratitude for treating his wife, Lev Bakst gifted Lev Klyachko the painting "Antique Horror," which is now kept in the Russian Museum.
Kryvdina's Dacha
Sestroretsk, Grigoryeva Street, 16/8
The wooden dacha of Valentina Evgenievna Krivdina was built in Sestroretsk in the early 20th century in the Art Nouveau style according to the design of architect Morozov. The painting by artist Stas Borodin "The Old Dacha in Sestroretsk" (2004) depicts this building, which previously belonged to a boarding house. According to the residents, there was an open sunbathing and fireworks viewing platform on the tower, and in July 2021, a growing tilt was noticed on it. On the night of July 31, 2021, the roof and part of the structure collapsed, after which the KGIOP filed a police report about a crime under Articles 243 and 243.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation due to the owner's failure to fulfill obligations to protect the building.
Dibuny Platform
Saint Petersburg, Pesochny settlement, Dibuny Railway Platform
The wooden railway station building at Dibuny station in the settlement of Pesochy was completed by 1904 in the Northern Art Nouveau style, and the electrification of the hub was finished in 1951. In 2016, the building was recognized as an identified cultural heritage site, but it has not functioned as a station since 2014 due to low passenger traffic. The history of V. I. Lenin is connected to this place, as he departed from here for Petrograd in August 1917, and it is also mentioned in Samuil Marshak's work "Here's What an Absent-Minded Man." In the early 20th century, the station served large-scale freight shipments from the brick factory of Princess M. V. Vyazemskaya, to which more than 3,700 loaded wagons were sent in 1913.
Dubki Park, Sestroretsk
Sestroretsk, Dubkovskoye Highway, 42
The "Dubki" Park in Sestroretsk is located on the territory of the former Peter the Great's residence in Dalniye Dubki. The palace, which was visited by foreign guests of Peter I in 1724, was 185 meters long with galleries and had a three-story central section with an area of 1300 square meters. In 1722, workers from Strelna were transferred to the construction site, and in 1746, the site was transferred to the Sestroretsk Arms Factory. In 2011–2012, the park's drainage system was restored, with open ditches being replaced by underground ones.
Dunes Beach
Sestroretsk, Primorskoye Highway
The "Dunes" beach in Sestroretsk is a free and maintained recreation area on Primorskoye Highway, where rescue posts are operating as of 2025. The area has been known as a dacha vacation spot for the creative intelligentsia since the 18th century, and it received its current name in 1948 during the renaming of Finnish toponyms. In 2014, the border posts from the beach were moved to the "Sestroretsk Frontier" museum to protect them from vandalism, as vacationers were sunbathing naked next to them. You can reach the beach by buses No. 310 and No. 211, getting off at the stop opposite the "Zarechnaya Doroga" bridge.
Levashovo Railway Station Building
Saint Petersburg, Levashovo, Zheleznodorozhnaya Street, 7A
The building of the Levashovo railway station in Saint Petersburg is an architectural monument, constructed in 1908 according to the design of architect Bruno Granholm for the Finnish Railway. The asymmetrical facade of the station features a raised and recessed central volume with pointed false arches, as well as side wings of varying heights with rounded corners. From the platform side, the structure is adorned with a canopy installed on cast columns. Previously, the glazed tile stoves in the station hall were emerald-glazed, but by 2017 they had been covered with oil paint.
Komarovsky Coast
Saint Petersburg, Komarovo, Morskaya Street
The natural monument "Komarovsky Bereg" in Sestroretsk was created to preserve the natural complexes of the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland and the habitats of rare animals. On the Littorina terrace of the territory there are many ravines up to 75 meters wide and up to 12 meters deep, and the streams at their bottom contain a large amount of iron. In the pine forests on the upper terrace grows the rare shrub Chimaphila umbellata, and among the psammophilous coastal species there are sea mustard and rugosa rose. Human development of this territory began about 120 years ago, with the main entrance to the eco-trail located on Morskaya Street in the village of Komarovo.
Levashovo Empty Place
Saint Petersburg, Levashovskaya Pustosh
Levashovo Clearing in St. Petersburg is a memorial cemetery where 46,771 people are buried, of whom 40,485 were executed by firing squad following political sentences from the summer of 1937 to 1954. At the center of the memorial are an Orthodox and a Catholic cross, consecrated on April 19 and solemnly opened on October 30, 1993, forming a symbolic Golgotha. The first memorial events with photographs of the murdered and ribbons were held here on October 21, 1989, and April 14, 1990, and memorial services were conducted by Priest Alexander Ranee. The status of a memorial cemetery was officially assigned to this place by the decision of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad Soviet No. 544 on July 18, 1989.
Malaya Sestra River
Sestroretsk, Naberezhnaya Reki Sestry
Malaya Sestra is a river 4.8 kilometers long, flowing in Sestroretsk and flowing into the Gulf of Finland. In its lower reaches, it forms a delta of two branches that create an island, on which the "Belye Nochi" and "Dyuny" sanatoriums, as well as the "Dyuna" golf club, have been located since 1988. Many pedestrian bridges have been built to connect the banks, but there are only two automobile crossings — at the dam in Sestroretsk and a cable-stayed bridge near the "Belye Nochi" sanatorium. The ecological state of the river remains complex due to garbage on the banks and the contamination of the Sestroretsky Razliv reservoir with toxic blue-green algae, although in 2013 work on the improvement of the mouth and the lining of the channel was completed.
Moloch of Totalitarianism
Saint Petersburg, Levashovskaya Pustosh, memorial entrance
The "Moloch of Totalitarianism" monument at the entrance to the memorial at Levashovo wasteland is a metal sculpture of a monster grabbing and devouring a human. The architect of the monument was Alexey Lelyakov, and according to some testimonies, the figure was originally intended for a city in Central Asia, but was installed in St. Petersburg at the initiative of Mayor Sobchak. Due to the absence of an explanatory inscription, the composition remains unclear to an uninformed viewer, which drew criticism from some former political prisoners and human rights activists. At the monument's opening in 1996, V. V. Ioffe urged to turn one's back on Moloch and go to the graves of the victims, bringing them flowers as a sign of remembrance.
Panteleimon Church (Tarkhovka)
Sestroretsk, Tarkhovka
The Panteleimon Church in Tarkhovka is a single-altar wooden Orthodox church in Sestroretsk, belonging to the Resort Deanery of the St. Petersburg Diocese. Built on a granite foundation in the shape of a cross with a large double-height dome, it can accommodate up to 250 people, and its interior is finished with spruce paneling. The initiator of the construction was the landowner P. N. Elagin, the curator of the agricultural museum. The movement for the return of the church to the Church began in 1990, and in 1998 Archpriest Sergey Kolomiyets became the rector.
Penates Estate
Repino, Primorskoye Highway, 411
The Penates estate in the Repino settlement on Primorskoye Highway, 411 is a museum of the artist Ilya Repin and a branch of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. Repin lived here for 30 years, died in 1930, and was buried on the estate grounds, which he purchased in 1899 in the name of his second wife, Natalia Nordman. The park contains the "Homer's Square" clearing, decorated with granite boulders and tree roots, as well as the "Poseidon" well, the water from which the artist considered healing. After the destruction of 1944, when only the foundations and stove frames remained of the buildings, the restoration was carried out according to old photographs.
Dams of the Sestroretsky Razliv Reservoir
Sestroretsk, Mosina Street
The dams of the Sestroretsk Razliv Reservoir are a hydraulic structure from the time of Peter I, blocking the Sestra and Chernaya rivers to raise the water level. After a flood washed away a wooden bridge, the surface of the 1833 earthen dam was adapted for traffic. The spillway dam is equipped with 18 two-tier metal gates, and the stability of their supports after the wear of cast iron buttresses in 1974 was ensured by concreting. A road bridge with an 8-meter-wide carriageway runs through the spillway structure, and the main Hausmann Dam, after restoration in 1985–1987, is capable of passing up to 35 cubic meters of water per second.
Svoboda Square (Sestroretsk)
Sestroretsk, Svobody Square
Freedom Square in Sestroretsk is a historic place where in 1902 a building of a craft school was constructed, and in 1937 a school with a Lenin monument appeared on the site of the Peter and Paul Church. The headquarters of the 5th Border Detachment was located in the building at the current address Square, 3 since 1926, and the 36th Medical-Sanitary Battalion was formed on the basis of the local infirmary. The territory also features a park with the Alley of the 50th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and in 2019 a water and air show was held here in honor of City Day.
Rusty Ditch
Sestroretsk, Primorskoye Highway
Rusty Ditch is a drainage canal in Sestroretsk that branches off from the Sestra River approximately one kilometer from its confluence with Razliv. The length of the ditch from the "Sestra" memorial to its mouth is 1.5 kilometers, with steep banks and surrounding dunes reaching heights of up to 20 meters. In 2014, large-scale works were carried out to clean a water area of about 32,000 square meters and remove nearly 40,000 cubic meters of bottom sediments. This line had strategic significance in 1941 when Finnish forces crossed the Sestra River but were stopped at the mouth of the ditch, which was part of the Karelian Fortified Region.
Garden of Peace
Leningrad Oblast, Vsevolozhsk District, Vyborgskoye Highway, 38th km
The "Garden of Peace" memorial in Sestroretsk is erected at the border from which in 1944 the troops of the 21st and 23rd armies launched an offensive in the Vyborg operation. Created in 1967 from granite, concrete, and metal structures, the monument is a 10-meter stele with a height of 2.8 meters, next to which there are tank and anti-tank obstacles. From the memorial, a 175-meter birch alley runs into the field along the former defense line, which was supposed to become the beginning of a tourist trail to the "Sestra" memorial. The monument was built with funds from the workers of the Petrograd district of Leningrad by the efforts of factory brigades, military personnel, students, and schoolchildren.
Sarai Museum
Sestroretsk, Emelyanova Street, 3
The "Saray" Museum is located in the historical district of Razliv in the city of Sestroretsk at 3 Emelyanova Street. This site, where in 1917 the leadership of the Bolshevik Party sheltered Lenin to receive operational information from the capital, was opened in 1925. Currently, the complex is included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites as a monument of regional historical significance, and since 2005 it has been operated by the St. Petersburg State Institution "Historical and Cultural Museum Complex in Razliv". In 2025, an exhibition dedicated to the museum's centenary was opened.
Sestra River
Sestroretsk, Naberezhnaya Reki Sestry
The Sestra River flows through the Vsevolozhsky and Vyborgsky districts of Leningrad Oblast and the Kurortny district of Saint Petersburg, and its source is located in the swamps west of the village of Vaskelovo. In 1703, a battle took place on this river in which Peter I defeated the Swedish army of General Kroniort, and in the 17th century, a harbor and the trading settlement of Syysterbek already existed at its mouth. The length of the river, known in Finland as Rajajoki, is 85 kilometers, and the excess water from the Sestroretsk Razliv reservoir is discharged into the Gulf of Finland through a canal 4.8 kilometers long.
Sestroretsk Railway Station
Sestroretsk, Dubkovskoye Highway, 1
The Sestroretsk Railway Station is a two-story wooden building that was opened for passengers in 1899, presumably according to a design by P. A. Avenarius or Bruno Granholm. The development of Dubbovskoye Highway and the adjacent areas towards the sea coast started from it, and the platform at the station was built back in 1894. The first floor housed ticket offices, a waiting room, and a buffet, while the second floor was occupied by a hotel connected to the lower level by a steep wooden staircase. In August 2020, a project for the restoration of the station was approved, aiming to restore its historical appearance as of 1910, replace the wooden floors with monolithic reinforced concrete ones, and reinforce the foundation.
Sestroretsk Tool Plant
Sestroretsk, Voskova Street
The Sestroretsk Tool Plant, located in Sestroretsk on Voskova Street, played an important role in supplying the Leningrad Front, transferring 4,150 Degtyaryov submachine guns by the end of 1941. In July 1941, the enterprise was evacuated to Novosibirsk, and in 1946 it resumed operations using equipment from the German "Stock" factory, producing small drills. As part of the "Petrovsky Arsenal" project, the first restored facility was the renovated House of the Plant Commander. From 1894 to 1902, the enterprise was managed by Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, the creator of the 1891 model three-line rifle.
Sestroretsk Resort
Sestroretsk, Maksima Gorkogo Street
The Sestroretsk Resort in the town of Sestroretsk was founded on the initiative of P. A. Avenarius to increase the income of the Primorskaya St. Petersburg-Sestroretsk Railway Company. In 1907, it received the Grand Prix at the World Balneological Exhibition in Spa, and its main natural therapeutic factors are sapropelic gyttja and radon-containing chloride-sodium mineral water. The air on the territory, saturated with biologically active negative ions due to the pine forest, dune sand, and proximity to the sea, improves metabolism and normalizes nervous processes. Currently, several sanatoriums operate here, including the largest one near the Kurort railway station, and in early 2011, an investment project for the development of part of the territory with low-rise buildings was discussed.
Sestroretsk Overpass
Sestroretsk, Primorskoye Highway
The Sestroretsk Overpass is located in Sestroretsk at the alignment of Primorskoye Highway, west of the intersection with Mosin Street. The existing reinforced concrete crossing was built in 2004–2005 during a reconstruction that began in 2004, when traffic on it was temporarily closed in March 2005. The roadway is designed for four traffic lanes, oncoming flows are separated by a metal barrier fence, and sidewalks are arranged along the edges. Noise protection screens are installed on the overpass itself and on the approach embankments.
Sestroretsky Razliv
Sestroretsk, Sestroretsky Razliv
Sestroretsky Razliv is a reservoir with an area of 10.6 square kilometers in Sestroretsk, created in Petrine times by damming the Sestra and Chernaya rivers. By the end of the 19th century, it had lost its original significance as an energy hydraulic structure after the local factory switched to steam engines. In winter, the water area of 12 square kilometers turns into a public ice rink, however, diving in places with liquid viscous silt at the bottom is deadly dangerous, as it sucks in the feet. This object, number 25, was included in the list of cultural and natural heritage of Leningrad under the auspices of UNESCO in 1990.
Sestroretsk Line
Sestroretsk, Primorskoye Highway, 309
The "Sestroretsk Frontier" exposition in Sestroretsk showcases various elements of defensive structures. Among the exhibits are anti-tank hedgehogs welded from rails, I-beams, and angle irons from Kotlin Island, as well as an armored firing point VPB-3 "Izhora Tower" with a Maxim machine gun. The site features a prefabricated machine-gun emplacement SPS-4 and turreted artillery mounts with 76-mm guns from KV tanks. The complex is historically linked to the development of the curved-barrel KSGM machine gun by the Leningrad OKB-43 and includes the APK-1 communication hub and a six-embrasure pillbox connected by a communication line. The exhibition complex can be reached on foot from the "Border Guards' Square" bus stop along Primorskoye Highway.
Sestroretsk Garden at the Factory Commander's House
Sestroretsk, Voskova Street, 4
The garden near the factory commander's house in Sestroretsk at 4 Voskova Street has today been reduced to a street lawn, but it retains the status of a cultural heritage site. In the spring of 1918, the house and garden of the former plant manager were turned into a kindergarten accessible to all children of Sestroretsk, and after the revolution the area became a "Recreation Garden" with paid admission, where concerts and lectures were held in the summer. In 1944, an ice rink and a dance floor were immediately restored here, and club events began to be held outdoors with the participation of theater and philharmonic artists. At the upper part of the garden there is a monument to Mosin, and the territory also included a boat station on the Sestroretsky Razliv.
Sestroretsk Swamp
Sestroretsk, Sestroretskoye Highway
Sestroretsk Swamp is the largest nature reserve in St. Petersburg, covering an area of 1877 hectares, which received the status of a specially protected natural territory in 2011. On its territory, glacial kames, remnants of ancient coastal ramparts, and one of the largest colonies of black-headed gulls in the city on the shallow waters of the Sestroretsky Razliv have been preserved. At the base of the Sestroretsk dunes, campsites of hunters and fishermen from the 3rd-2nd millennium BC have been discovered, and on the edge of the swamp is the "Sestroretsk Rampart" museum located in the former APK-1 "Elephant" pillbox. The flora of the reserve includes 468 species of vascular plants, including the tussock cottongrass, early purple orchid, and English sundew, which are rare for the region.
Sestroretsk Jewish Cemetery
Sestroretsk, Primorskoye Highway, 37th km
The Sestroretsk Jewish Cemetery is known for its unique style of carving on a number of old tombstones, which is uncharacteristic of later urban burials. In the 1970s, after the removal of security, pogroms took place there: monuments with Hebrew inscriptions were smashed and a cast-iron fence was stolen. The territory contains the Guterman family vault, near which the burials of the Lafer family were discovered, as well as a memorial to the famous Klyachko family. Since 2017, a group of enthusiasts has been carrying out restoration work at the cemetery, clearing the area and attracting the attention of the community and state authorities.
Sestroretsk Cemetery
Sestroretsk, Volodarskogo Street, 64
The Sestroretsk Cemetery in the city of Sestroretsk was founded in the early 20th century and covers an area of 16 hectares. Its territory includes a columbarium, while regional protection is granted to the grave of border guard hero Andrey Korobitsyn and the mass graves of soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. Buried here are People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Chursina, film directors Yuri Veksler and Vladimir Ilyin, as well as athletes and scientists, including Doctor of Medicine Leonid Levin.
Tarkhovka Forest Park
Sestroretsk, Tarkhovka settlement, forest park
The Tarkhovka Forest Park in Sestroretsk, which received the status of a forest park in 1958, together with the park areas of Gagarka and Razliv forms the Tarkhovka Park. On its territory, renamed from Tarkhovsky Cape to Tarkhovsky after a survey, 70 species of plants from the Red Book grow, including 200-year-old spruces, 300-year-old pines, and century-old oaks. The most famous tree is the black alder on the Sandy Spit, and to reduce the load on ecosystems, an ecological trail is planned to be arranged here.
Tarkhovskoye Cemetery (Sestroretsk)
Sestroretsk, Tarkhovka, end of Sovetsky Avenue
Tarkhovskoye Cemetery is located in Sestroretsk near the Tarkhovka platform of the Primorskaya railway and appeared during the war next to the hospital in the Avenerius estate. Here rest 17 defenders of Hanko Island, soldiers who died from wounds in the hospital, and residents of Sestroretsk who perished during the siege years. Unnamed children, whose bodies were stacked in a school shed during winter and transported here in the spring of 1942, as well as pupils of the siege children's home at the Razliv station, are buried on the territory. The cemetery has an inscription indicating that those who died and were killed in besieged Leningrad are buried here, which is why the place was also called the "Siege" or "Hunger Cemetery."
Totleben Fort
Kronstadt, Gulf of Finland, Fort Totleben
Fort Totleben, located in the Gulf of Finland near Kronstadt, has a plan in the shape of the letter "C" facing west, with a total length of frontal and flank facades of 700 meters. By 1915, rangefinder pavilions, "Schuckert" system searchlights, and diesel generators were installed at this defensive structure, and a bakery, a church, and a cinematograph were also operating there. During the Great Patriotic War, the fort supported the 23rd Army defending Sestroretsk with fire, and in the 1960s its metal structures were dismantled. Today, annual youth training camps for volunteer sea rescuers are held on the fort's territory.
Volodarskogo Street
Sestroretsk, Volodarskogo Street
Volodarsky Street in Sestroretsk was planned for significant expansion with the construction of multi-story stone buildings on both sides and the creation of a green flower-lined boulevard in the middle. This street is home to a recognized heritage site — the P. E. Kalachev Hotel — as well as the Leontiev mansion, which in 2011 was almost completely demolished by its new owner following a legal dispute with the KGIOP. In 1945–1946, stone cottage houses were built here by German prisoners of war, and in 1970, building No. 7a housed a branch of the State Bank.
Voskov Street (Sestroretsk)
Sestroretsk, Voskova Street
Voskova Street in Sestroretsk is about 680 meters long and runs from the Malaya Sestra River to the Sestroretsk railway line, connecting to Volodarsky Street in the east and Dubkovskoye Highway in the west. In 1849–1852, Ivan Ovsov and Dmitry Zubov built a highway to the Dubkovskaya pier, which corresponds to the current street. It is home to the tallest residential building in Sestroretsk (building No. 5) with a height of 86 meters, built in 2007, as well as the Tikhvin Chapel (building No. 19), which was legalized in 2014 after illegal construction in 2005.
Maxim Gorky Street
Sestroretsk, Maksima Gorkogo Street
Maxim Gorky Street in Sestroretsk, originally named after P. A. Avenarius, traces its history back to Avenarius Street, which ran from the bank of the Sestra River to Ermolovsky Avenue. This street is home to the dacha of collegiate secretary Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochkin from the early 20th century, which during the Soviet era was under the administration of the "Sestroretsk Resort" sanatorium. In 2019, urgent anti-accident works were carried out on this building, but a full reconstruction did not begin due to deviations in the project documentation of the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Monuments of History and Culture. The resort itself, created to increase the income of the Railway Society, became famous for having the largest covered winter swimming pool in Russia, 52 types of procedures, and a Grand Prix at the World Balneological Exhibition in Spa in 1907, and an inscription about the transformation of a desolate area into a resort was still readable on Avenarius's tombstone cross in the 1970s.
Mosin Street
Sestroretsk, Mosina Street
Mosin Street in Sestroretsk was renamed on December 15, 1952, from Krestovskaya Street in honor of S. I. Mosin, the head of the local arms factory and creator of the 1891 model rifle. The section from Voskova Street to the Spillway Canal was previously called Krestovskaya Street, and the Krestovsky Square has been preserved at the southwestern corner with Voskova Street. The oldest vocational school No. 120 also bears Mosin's name. At Mosin Street, 63, there was a school complex of pre-revolutionary buildings; a wooden structure from 1905 was demolished in 2014 for the construction of a new wing, which the prosecutor's office deemed illegal.
Tokareva Street
Sestroretsk, Tokareva Street
Tokareva Street in Sestroretsk is about 880 meters long. It features a monument to writer Mikhail Zoshchenko near the library, where Zoshchenko readings are held annually, as well as a post office at house number 18 and an ice rink at house number 15. The street is named after gunsmith Fyodor Tokarev, who worked at the Sestroretsk factory from 1908 to 1914, where he personally, as a simple locksmith, crafted parts for automatic rifles.
Avenarius Estate
Sestroretsk, Fedotovskaya Dorozhka, 42/22
The Avenarius estate in Sestroretsk is located at 42/22 Fedotovskaya Dorozhka. Its wooden main house from 1907 has eclectic facades and an asymmetrical composition, which is explained by the fact that the project was created long before construction began, when Art Nouveau was already coming into fashion. Due to the owner Avenarius's debts, the building's decoration turned out to be modest, and all the home furnishings cost less than one thousand rubles. In 1923, the nationalized estate was occupied by the "Sevzapkino" rest house, later renamed "Sovkino", and since 1973 a sanatorium specializing in the treatment of heart diseases has been operating on its territory. In 2022, a wooden portal with a balcony collapsed at the estate.
Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Sestroretsk
Sestroretsk, Aleksandrovskaya, Church of the Nativity of the Virgin
The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Sestroretsk was built according to the design of the author team of the "Petersburg Architectural Partnership" under the leadership of architect Alexander Evgenievich Schroeter, with the participation of Anton Golovin and Georgy Uralov. The stone building with white plaster is executed in the traditions of Northern Art Nouveau and is decorated on the outside with three-dimensional mosaic icons. Among the revered shrines of the church are a particle of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord and a copy of the miraculous Kikkiskaya Icon of the Mother of God "the Merciful". The first service took place on September 21, 2005, and a reliquary with the relics of saints is also kept in the building.
Temple of Seraphim of Sarov (Pesochny)
Saint Petersburg, Pesochny settlement, Leningradskaya Street, 10
The Church of Seraphim of Sarov is located in the center of the settlement of Pesochny, near the former Grafskaya station, on a hill among pine trees. Among the church's relics are a reliquary with the relics of Seraphim of Sarov and a reliquary with a particle of the relics of Saint Nicholas of Myra, and at the entrance, a veneration cross is installed in memory of the new martyrs, including Archpriest Nikolai Merinov. The building was fully transferred to the parish community on March 13, 1992, and in August 2000, Archpriest Philosoph Ornatsky and his sons Nikolai and Boris were canonized as saints of the whole church. The church was built by the Society for the Dissemination of Religious and Moral Enlightenment, which existed since 1890 for the spiritual enlightenment of the Russian people.
Church of Saints Peter and Paul (Sestroretsk)
Sestroretsk, Petrovskaya Embankment, 1
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Sestroretsk was erected in memory of Russian submarine sailors, since, according to legend, it was on Lake Razliv in 1721–1725 that Yefimon Nikonov's "hidden vessel" was tested. The church houses an open Book of Memory with a list of Russian submariners who died since 1904, where those who perished on the current date are commemorated daily. In 2014, an icon of the Sestroretsk new martyrs was brought here, and in 2016 the walls were decorated with a mural by Alina Knyazeva featuring eight panels about the apostles Peter and Paul. The church is assigned the chapel of Saint Xenia of St. Petersburg at Hospital No. 40, where special prayers for the repose of submariners are held on March 19, April 7, and August 12.
Chernaya River
Sestroretsk, Sestroretsky Razliv
The Chernaya River flows into the Sestroretsky Razliv, an artificial reservoir created in the 1720s after the course of the Sestra River was diverted, into which the Chernaya previously flowed. The river is spanned by automobile and railway bridges between the settlements of Pesochny and Dibuny, a bridge on Sovetskaya Street, and an iron footbridge on the Leninskaya ecological trail. A hydrometeorological observation station operated on the bridge at the Dibuny station from 1925 to 1966. The river's annual runoff is formed by 44% snowmelt water, 31% rainwater, and 25% groundwater.
Lenin's Hut
Sestroretsk, Doroga k Shalashu Lenina, 3
The "Shalash" Museum Complex in Sestroretsk commemorates the place where, in July and August of 1917, Vladimir Lenin hid from persecution and wrote the book "The State and Revolution". The initiative to commemorate this "Lenin's Last Hideout" arose at a mourning rally in 1924, and a granite monument designed by architect A.I. Gegello was solemnly unveiled on July 15, 1928. In 1964, a new pavilion-museum made of granite, marble, and glass was built next to the monument according to the design of V.D. Kirhoglani.
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