Tikhvin is a town and the administrative center of Tikhvinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Tikhvinka River in the east of the oblast, 200 kilometers (120 mi) east of St. Petersburg. Tikhvin is also an industrial and cultural center of the district, as well as its transportation hub. Population: 58,459 (2010 Russian census); 63,338 (2002 Census); 71,352 (1989 Soviet census).
Karla Marksa Street, the longest in Tikhvin
Dormition Monastery
Belfry of Tikhvinsky Monastery
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov house museum
Tikhvinsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Lodeynopolsky District in the north, Podporozhsky District in the northeast, Babayevsky District of Vologda Oblast in the east, Boksitogorsky District in the southeast, Lyubytinsky District of Novgorod Oblast in the south, Kirishsky District in the west, and Volkhovsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 7,018 square kilometers (2,710 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Tikhvin. Population : 12,529 (2010 Russian census); 14,637 ; 17,104 (1989 Soviet census).
The belfry and the Assumption Church of the Tikhvin Assumption Monastery
The Kazan wooden church in the selo of Shugozero.
