Zelenogorsk
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Serovo Coastal Cliff
Zelenogorsk, Ushkovo, coast between Ushkovo and Serovo
The coastal cliff "Serovo" on the shore of the Gulf of Finland between Ushkovo and Serovo is known as a place where the granite crystalline shield emerges to the surface in the "Kamennaya Gora" park. On its territory, there are remnants of the Finnish VT defensive line of 1941–1944, which consist of a strip of trenches and anti-tank dragon's teeth up to 10 meters wide. Here are also the dachas of the "Kaunis and Toivola" joint-stock company, whose intensive construction was interrupted by the events of 1917, and whose name translates as "a place of beautiful hopes". From the steep slope, where a retaining wall made of granite boulders has been preserved, a view opens onto the lower terrace and the gulf from the Corniche Boulevard.
Akhmatova's Booth
Zelenogorsk, Komarovo, Osipenko Street, 3
Akhmatova's Hut is the poet's dacha in Komarovo (Zelenogorsk), located at 3 Osipenko Street. During the summer months of 1963 and 1964, Anna Akhmatova listened here to sonatas by Beethoven and Vivaldi, and to Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet, while an old tube radio receiver "Rekord" stood opposite the wooden bookshelf in her room. In 2004, the building was restored, and a 2001 report mentioned that Joseph Brodsky used to fetch water from the well near this house. Akhmatova noted that arranging just one living room in such a structure required being an extraordinary architect.
Bust of the Artist I. E. Repin (Repino)
Zelenogorsk, Repino, Primorskoye Highway, Repin Square (at Repina Street)
A bronze bust of the artist Ilya Repin was installed in 1957 in the Repino settlement at the junction of Primorskoye Highway and Repin Street. The sculpture, created based on Manizer's design and cast at the Leningrad Monument Sculpture factory, depicts the master in his mature years wearing a jacket, a shirt with a bow tie, and a cloak. The monument stands on a square pedestal made of gray granite blocks, designed by architect V. D. Kirkhoglani, and in May 2024 it was included in the list of identified cultural heritage sites of Russia.
Gladyshevsky Sanctuary
Zelenogorsk, Molodyozhnoye, coast at the mouth of the Chernaya River
The Gladyshevsky Nature Reserve is located on the coast at the mouth of the Chernaya River, in the vicinity of Zelenogorsk and the settlement of Molodyozhnoye. Its territory contains middle-aged coniferous and deciduous forests, heavily disturbed by the Second World War and subsequent forestry, and on the sandy shore of the Gulf of Finland there are valuable plant communities with lyme grass, honkenya, and sea pea. Hunting, collecting, and extraction of protected species are prohibited in the reserve, as is the movement of motorized watercraft on Lake Gladyshevskoye and the Velikaya and Gladyshevka rivers. The name of the area comes from the former village of Vanhasaha, which translates as "Old Sawmill," where a sawmill was built in the 18th century by decree of the Russian monarch, and later a paper mill and a mill operated.
Borman's Dacha
Zelenogorsk, Komarovo, Morskaya Street, 8
Borman's Dacha in Zelenogorsk, located in Komarovo at 8 Morskaya Street, is a park of the former Renault villa with a cascade of ponds, which is recommended to visit together with the Komarovsky Shore. Initially, the plot belonged to the gunsmith Ivan Ivanovich Chizhov, who created a large park there with fountains and a gazebo on the slope, and later it was owned by Georgy Grigoryevich Borman. In 2003, the villa building was in decent condition, but the entrances were boarded up, and on November 18, 2013, the last surviving structure burned down. The overgrown slope from the estate to the Gulf of Finland became part of the Komarovsky Shore nature reserve after 2000.
Zelenogorsk Dacha
Zelenogorsk, Primorskoye Highway, 570 (lit. I)
The Zelenogorsk Dacha, located on the territory of the "Severnaya Riviera" sanatorium on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, is included in the register of cultural heritage sites of Russia. On its territory there are tiled stoves made in the early 20th century according to the design of architect Eduard Dippel, which are monuments of decorative and applied arts. The complex also includes a stone cellar with the date "1927" above the entrance, a fence, and a retaining wall made of granite blocks. After the war, the building was used as one of the blocks of the sanatorium of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Armaments Industry Workers, and later it was listed as Dormitory No. 3.
Muzer Dacha
Zelenogorsk, Teatralnaya Street, 9
The Mueller Dacha in Zelenogorsk at 9 Teatralnaya Street is known for its tile stoves in the Northern Renaissance style, one of which is an early model from the Rakkolanjoki factory with tile patterns purchased in Germany. The facade of the building features a detail in the form of a spinning wheel, which local historian A. I. Rodenkov associates with the motifs of Karelianism. In 2023, the building was acquired by heritage activists and entrepreneurs Yan Bobryshev and Stepan Tsepalkin, who plan to restore the property, where, according to the 2024 project, a hotel with 13 rooms, a spacious hall, and a veranda will be located.
Officers' Assembly Building (Zelenogorsk)
Zelenogorsk, Ispolkomskaya Street, 6
The Officers' Assembly building in Zelenogorsk at 6 Ispolkomskaya Street is an architectural monument that was originally built as the mansion of I. I. Novikov. During the Winter War, the government of Terijoki gathered here, and a military hospital and the headquarters of the Finnish border guard were also located there. Since 1959, the estate has been used as the "Leninets" pioneer camp and a holiday home for writers from the "Lenizdat" publishing house. The sale of this city landmark caused controversy, resulting in a ban on demolition and new construction being added to the terms of the deal.
Zelenogorsk Park of Culture and Recreation
Zelenogorsk, Central Park, between Primorskoye Highway and Teatralnaya Street
A public park in Zelenogorsk, which has existed on this site since the late 19th century when the city was called Terijoki, is now under the operational management of the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Zelenogorsk Park of Culture and Recreation". In 1954, a wooden building of a summer cinema was constructed here based on the design of architect V. D. Kirhoglani; it was destroyed by arson on September 21, 2014, after which fuel containers were found on the burn site. For a long time, the construction of a new cinema and concert complex was impossible because the territory was designated as a zone of public green spaces where the erection of new structures is prohibited. The park also features "Chess Country," where Grandmaster Alexander Khalifman conducted a simultaneous exhibition that ended in a draw with four out of 12 participants.
Zelenogorsk Station
Zelenogorsk, Vokzalnaya Street, station square
The station in Zelenogorsk, historically known as Terijoki, opened in 1870 upon the completion of the Riihimäki–St. Petersburg railway line. The first wooden station building was later replaced by a stone one, designed by architect Bruno Granholm and put into operation on December 1, 1917. In 1950, the building was reconstructed according to a design by A. A. Grechannikov and has survived to this day. During the period of autonomy before St. Petersburg, up to 40 pairs of trains ran daily from this station, and in 1911–1915, more railway tickets were sold here than at any other station in Finland except Helsinki.
Kauunis and Toyvola
Zelenogorsk, Ushkovo, Plyazhevaya Street, 10
Kounis and Toyvola is an estate in Zelenogorsk and Ushkovo, founded by a joint-stock company with an authorized capital of 2.5 million rubles and a central office in the Singer House on Nevsky Prospekt. Within the framework of the company, the parks "Kamennaya Gora" and "Kornish" were laid out, and the owner of "Kounisranta", Karl Linder, arranged a large aviary at his dacha and grew cucumbers. Two company dachas at Plyazhevaya Street, building 10, as well as plots on Dachnaya and Pionerskaya Streets, are included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites of St. Petersburg based on the law of July 5, 1999, No. 174-27. Orlovsky himself named his estate "Kounistoivola," which means "Place of Beautiful Hopes."
Komarovsky Village Cemetery
Zelenogorsk, Komarovo, Ozernaya Street, 52A
The Komarovsky Village Cemetery in Zelenogorsk covers an area of 2.4 hectares. Philologists and literary scholars V. P. Adrianova-Peretz, M. P. Alekseev, V. M. Zhirmunsky, D. S. Likhachev, B. S. Meilakh, and V. F. Shishmarev are buried here, as well as directors Ilya Averbakh, Naum Birman, Arkady Katsman, Iosif Kheifits, and Alexander Kapitsa. The cemetery is the burial place of musician Sergei Anatolyevich Kurekhin, artist Nathan Altman, as well as physicists, chemists, geologists, and oncologists. There are 20 known graves of people connected with the pre-revolutionary past of Kellomäki, who owned dachas here before 1917. At Akhmatova's grave, as she bequeathed, a wooden cross stood at first, and in 1969 a bas-relief and a cross were installed according to the design of sculptor A. M. Ignatiev and architect V. P. Smirnov.
Constantine and Helen Monastery
Zelenogorsk, Leninskoye, Constantine and Helen Monastery
The Constantine and Helen Monastery in Zelenogorsk was established by a decision of the Synod on October 6, 2006, based on a monastic community created at the church on May 11 of the same year. The complex includes several churches: a single-domed Church of Constantine and Helen with a bell tower on a hill, a St. Nicholas Church with frescoes in the style of the Dionysius school, and a Church of the Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos with reinforced concrete arches at the base of the dome, which repeats the idea of the Naval Kronstadt Cathedral. The St. Nicholas Church houses particles of the relics of the righteous Joachim and Anna and the Great Martyr Panteleimon, while the Church of the Praise houses a particularly revered 17th-century copy of the icon of the Queen of All, painted by the monk Ephraim (Makarov). The facade of one of the churches depicts Prince Vladimir of Novgorod, since, according to legend, these lands in ancient times were part of the Vodskaya Pyatina of the Novgorod Principality.
Grave of Love
Zelenogorsk, Molodyozhnoye, Sredneviborgskoye Highway, Maryina Gora
"Grave of Love" is a sculptural tombstone of writer Maria Krestovskaya in Mariokhi, which became known under this name. The pedestal of the monument is a stone from which Maria and Evgeny Kartavtsev admired the expanses of the Gulf of Finland, and their estate in Vamelsuu covered 65 hectares. During the Winter War, the church in Mariokhi was destroyed, and only the granite rock with inscriptions survived from the original monument, as the bronze monument disappeared. Today, on the slope towards the Gulf of Finland, one can see the ruins of the Joy of All Who Sorrow Church and fragments of the old park.
M. Y. Gertsenshtein's Grave
Zelenogorsk, Prospekt Lenina, 89A, Zelenogorsk Cemetery, plot 16
In the southeastern part of Zelenogorsk Cemetery, at plot 16, lies the grave of M. Y. Gertsenshtein, who was killed in 1906. This is the oldest surviving burial on the cemetery grounds, around which pre-revolutionary and pre-war graves of the old Terijoki cemetery remain. A large granite obelisk, 3–4 meters high, with a marble bas-relief depicting a woman over a dead man, has been erected at the grave, with the man's face chipped off. A cross is carved at the top of the obelisk, as Gertsenshtein was baptized into Orthodoxy.
Edith Södergran's Grave
Zelenogorsk, Roshchino, Sovetskaya Street, 14A
The grave and monument of the poet Edith Södergran are located in a square by the lake on Sovetskaya Street in Roshchino, on the high bank of Lake Okamo. The monument is a parallelepiped made of dark stone, installed in 1960 at the initiative of Finnish writers at the site of her approximate burial. For the first ten years, a wooden cross stood on the grave, which in 1933 was replaced by a narrow monument created by sculptor Wäinö Aaltonen, erected by the Union of Finland-Swedish Writers. The grave of the poetess, buried in the Orthodox cemetery of Raivola almost in the home yard, is included in the register of cultural heritage objects under number 4710068000.
Shchuchye Lake Sanctuary
Zelenogorsk, Komarovo, Ozernaya Street, entrance to the Shchuchye Lake Reserve
The Shchuchye Lake Nature Reserve is located in the Kurortny District of St. Petersburg on the territory of Zelenogorsk and the Komarovo village, covering an area of 1157 hectares. In the Druzhinnoye Lake, which is part of the reserve, the lake quillwort grows; it is listed in the Red Book of Russia, and among hoofed animals, moose enter the territory. On the Vesely Cape there is a former dacha with a memorial room of Academician N. N. Petrov, the founder of the oncology institute in the Pesochy settlement. The area is characterized by weakly pronounced erosional landforms represented by valleys of small streams, and the bryophyte flora includes 138 species, of which 8 are listed in the Red Book of St. Petersburg.
Maryina Gora Park
Zelenogorsk, Molodyozhnoye, Sredneviborgskoye Highway, Maryina Gora
Maryina Gora Park in Zelenogorsk is located on the site of the former Marioki estate, which was situated at the beginning of the Sredne-Vyborg Highway near the former Finnish village of Vammelsuu. On a high hill among the pines, architect I. A. Fomin built a two-story wooden mansion with an observation tower, and the Marioki Church was also erected in the strict Pskov style of the 12th–13th centuries, operating until 1939. After 1944, a ski jump descent appeared in place of the Marioki steps, and the writer T. L. Shchepkina-Kupernik, who was a guest here, dedicated a cycle of poems titled "Marioki Fairy Tales" to the estate.
Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (Zelenogorsk)
Zelenogorsk, Primorskoye Highway, 547
The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Zelenogorsk was built on the elevated plot of Vasily Kolodyazhny with an area of 4300 square sazhens, chosen by the diocesan authorities instead of the smaller plot of the Durdins. According to Finnish Wikipedia, the temple was built in the Russo-Byzantine style of Konstantin Ton, while the Russian Wikipedia defines its style as Moscow-Yaroslavl of the 16th century. The main marble throne and the altar were donated by A.A. Lyubishchev, and the bells were donated by A.M. Alexandrov, N.A. Shitov, and A.I. Rezanova. According to the original project, the interior walls were planned to be painted, but with the beginning of the First World War, these plans were not implemented.
Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Zelenogorsk)
Zelenogorsk, Prospekt Lenina, 13
The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Zelenogorsk belongs to the St. Petersburg Provostship of the Church of Ingria. At the site of a mass grave near the church, a "Monument to the Fallen" with the names of the deceased was erected in 1993, and in 2004 the "Monument of Reconciliation" by sculptor A. A. Avetisyan was opened, dedicated to the participants of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939–1940. The restoration of the bell tower in 1998 was funded by the Yärvenpää parish and the Hämeenlinna parishes. Finnish soldiers from the Vallila regiment gifted the church an altar painting "Christ Calms the Storm" by Eeli Jaatinen.
Shchuchye Lake (Komarovo)
Zelenogorsk, Komarovo, Lake Shchuchye
Lake Shchuchye is located in the village of Komarovo in Zelenogorsk on the Karelian Isthmus, three kilometers north of the Komarovo platform. Since 2008, the water area of the lake has been under protection, and in 2011 the "Lake Shchuchye" reserve was established here, access to which by cars is significantly restricted. More than a third of the reserve's territory is covered by kame hills, swamps, and lakes left from the last glaciation, including the largest one, Druzhinnoye. Near the lake is the Komarovo Cemetery, where figures of literature, art, and science are buried, and during the Swedish era, game from the surroundings was delivered to the royal court.
Yalkala
Zelenogorsk, Ilyichevo, Selskaya Street, 4B
The Yalkala Museum-Reserve in Ilyichevo near Zelenogorsk was opened on October 20, 1940, as the V. I. Lenin House-Museum, which was visited by N. S. Khrushchev and V. S. Tolstikov. After being repurposed in 1993, the exhibition was supplemented with stories about the Soviet-Finnish War, the region's archaeology, and the ethnography of the indigenous population of the Karelian Isthmus. Within the "Roads of Kalevala" program, the story of the region's nature is accompanied by runes from the Finnish epic, and flax is grown on the museum grounds, where guests in the "How a Shirt Grew in the Field" program can spin thread themselves. Among the educational programs available is an ecological trail to Lake Dolgoye; as of February 2025, the museum operates from 10:00 to 18:00.
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