Rusty Ditch

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.