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Lakhta (Russian: Ла́хта; Finnish: Lahti) is a historical area in Lakhta-Olgino Municipal Okrug of St. Petersburg, Russia, situated west of Lake Lakhta (hence the name). It was formerly owned by Peter the Great, Count Grigory Orlov, and Count Stenbock-Fermor (whose 19th-century residence survives).
It has the only outdoor miniature park in Russia: [citation needed] Mini-Gorod (Мини-город "mini-town"). The Architects ( Зодчие ), a bronze sculptural group by Alexander Taratynov was installed on June 15, 2011.
The exquisite decoration of Saint Petersburg Metro. The city is a major transport hub. In 1837 the first Russian railroad was built here. Today St. Petersburg is the final destination of Trans-Siberian Railway, and a web of intercity and suburban railways, served by five different railway terminals (Baltiysky, Finlyandsky, Ladozhsky, Moskovsky and Vitebsky), [2] as well as dozens of non ...
St. Petersburg's position on a latitude of about 60° N, less than seven degrees to the south of the Arctic Circle, leads to a huge variation in day length across seasons, ranging from 5 h 53 min to 18 h 50 min, and causes twilight to last all night in early summer, from June to mid-July – the celebrated phenomenon known as the white nights.
The metropolitan area extends for about 50 km (31 mi) from the center of Saint Petersburg. [2] The population of the Saint Petersburg metropolitan area is approximately 6.4 million people of the urbanized population [3] [4] (including St. Petersburg, Vsevolozhsky, most of Gatchinsky and Lomonosovsky Districts, and part of Kirovsky and Tosnensky ...
But four years later, in 1732, under Empress Anna of Russia, Saint Petersburg was again designated as the capital of the Russian Empire. It remained the seat of the Romanov dynasty and the Imperial Court of the Russian tsars, as well as the seat of the Russian government, for another 186 years until the communist revolution of 1917.
Petrogradsky Island or Petrograd Island (Russian: Петроградский остров) is the third-largest island in the Neva River delta in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [1] Along with Zayachy Island , Aptekarsky Island , and Petrovsky Island , it constitutes the Petrogradskaya Side ( Russian : Петроградская сторона). [ 2 ]