Batetsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and borders with Luzhsky District of Leningrad Oblast in the northwest, Novgorodsky District in the east, and with Shimsky District in the south. The area of the district is 1,600 square kilometers (620 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality of Batetsky. District's population: 6,335 (2010 Russian census); 6,996 ; 7,622 (1989 Soviet census). The population of the administrative center accounts for 35.6% of the district's total population.
Scene in Batetsky District
Luzhsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borders with Gatchinsky District in the north, Tosnensky District in the northeast, Novgorodsky and Batetsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast in the southeast, Shimsky District, also of Novgorod Oblast, in the south, Plyussky District of Pskov Oblast in the southwest, Slantsevsky District in the west, and Volosovsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 6,006.44 square kilometers (2,319.10 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Luga. Population : 40,166 (2010 Russian census); 41,885 ; 48,721 (1989 Soviet census).
Welcome sign at the entrance to Luzhsky District
The Kazan Cathedral in Luga
The former manor of Borovoye