Kirovsky District, Leningrad Oblast
Kirovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast and borders with Volkhovsky District in the east, Kirishsky District in the southeast, Nevsky and Kolpinsky Districts of the federal city of St. Petersburg in the west, Tosnensky District in the southwest, and with Vsevolozhsky District in the northwest. From the north, the district is bounded by Lake Ladoga. The area of the district is 2,590.46 square kilometers (1,000.18 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kirovsk. Population : 62,533 (2010 Russian census); 60,221 ; 74,725 (1989 Soviet census).
Kirovsky District, Leningrad Oblast
The Oreshek (Shlisselburg) Fortress
The water tower at Voybokalo railway station
The St. John Church in Otradnoye
Volkhovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central eastern part of the oblast and borders with Lodeynopolsky District in the northeast, Tikhvinsky District in the southeast, Kirishsky District in the south, and with Kirovsky District in the west. In the north, it is washed by Lake Ladoga. The area of the district is 5,124.4 square kilometers (1,978.5 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Volkhov. Population : 48,000 (2010 Russian census); 50,799 ; 58,939 (1989 Soviet census).
Panorama of the village of Storozhno on the shore of Lake Ladoga
The Assumption Cathedral, Staraya Ladoga
A lock of the Old Ladoga Canal (disused) in the town of Novaya Ladoga.
Church of Saint Dimitry of Thessaloniki, Staraya Ladoga