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.
Leningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia. The oblast has an area of 84,500 square kilometres (32,600 sq mi) and a population of 2,000,997 ; up from 1,716,868 recorded in the 2010 Census. Leningrad Oblast is highly industrialized. Its administrative center and largest city is Gatchina.
Monrepos Park in Vyborg
The Vuoksi in Priozersk
The Oredezh River near Siversky
The fortress in Staraya Ladoga