Kingisepp, formerly Yamburg (Я́мбург), Yam (Ям), and Yama, is a town and the administrative center of Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located along the Luga River 138 kilometers (86 mi) southwest of St. Petersburg, 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of Narva, and 40 kilometers (25 mi) south of the Gulf of Finland. Population: 48,488 (2010 Russian census); 50,295 (2002 Census); 49,954 (1989 Soviet census).
Views of Kingisepp
Swedish Jama in the 17th century
Yamburg Bridge, destroyed by the White Army, 1919
Yamburg's St. Catherine Cathedral was built in 1764–1782 to a late Baroque design by Antonio Rinaldi
Kingiseppsky 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 Ida-Viru County of Estonia in the west, Lomonosovsky District in the northeast, Volosovsky District in the east, and with Slantsevsky District in the south. In the north and northwest it is washed by the waters of the Gulf of Finland. The area of the district is 2,908 square kilometers (1,123 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kingisepp. Population : 19,830 (2010 Russian census); 20,408 ; 34,081 (1989 Soviet census).. Including the entire district: 78,183 (2010 Russian census);.
Mertvitsa River in Kingiseppsky District
The Ivangorod Fortress from the left bank of the Narva River.
Kotly railway station
The Saint Catherine Cathedral, Kingisepp
