Luga is a town and the administrative center of Luzhsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Luga River 140 kilometers (87 mi) south of St. Petersburg. Population: 38,593 (2010 Russian census); 40,434 (2002 Census); 41,769 (1989 Soviet census).
Luga in 2003
Luga Abrasiv plant - one of the major enterprises of the city
St. Nicholas Roman Catholic church (1904)
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