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
Lodeynopolsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia in the north, Podporozhsky District in the east, Tikhvinsky District in the south, and Volkhovsky District in the west. The area of the district is 4,900 square kilometers (1,900 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Lodeynoye Pole. Population : 9,795 (2010 Russian census); 12,185 ; 13,426 (1989 Soviet census).
Panorama of the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery
Ruins of the kvas brewery and of the pump-house previously belonging to the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, on the background of Lake Roshchinskoye
