Sestroretsk
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Administrative divisions of Saint Petersburg
The federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, is divided into eighteen city districts , which are in turn subdivided into municipal okrugs, municipal towns, and municipal settlements.-Admiralteysky District:...
in Kurortny District
Kurortny District
Kurortny District is a district of Saint Petersburg, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus along the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland. Population:...
of the federal city
Federal cities of Russia
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of St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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, Russia
Russia
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, located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland
Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland and Estonia all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn...
, the Sestra River
Sestra River (Leningrad Oblast)
Sestra River is a river in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia.The length of the river is 74 km . The area of its basin is 393 km² . The Sestra River flows over the Karelian Isthmus. It used to fall into the Gulf of Finland until the early 18th century...
and the Sestroretskiy Lake 34 kilometres (21.1 mi) northwest of St. Petersburg. Population: 30,500 (1975).
Sestroretsk was founded by Peter the Great in 1714 due to the construction of a munitions
Materiel
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factory (today's Sestroretsk Toolmaking Factory). The town is also known as a balneologic and climatic resort.
In 1812, the town was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Finland
Grand Duchy of Finland
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, along with Old Finland
Old Finland
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. In 1864, the town was transferred to Russia in exchange for a promise of compensation, supposedly in the form of access to the Arctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean
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at Petsamo
Pechengsky District
Pechengsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the five in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is located to the northwest of the Kola Peninsula on the coast of the Barents Sea and borders with Finland in the south and southwest and with Norway in the west, northwest, and north...
.
In 1875, Fyodor Pirotsky
Fyodor Pirotsky
Fyodor Apollonovich Pirotsky was a Ukrainian-born Russian engineer and inventor of the world's first railway electrification system and electric tram...
experimented with electrically powered railway cars on the Sestroretsk railway. The electricity was transferred over a distance of approximately one kilometer. Although the experiment did not last, this was the first use of electricity to power any railway in the world.
A large hospital
Hospital
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and rehabilitation
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
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center is situated within the boundaries of the town. It is the City hospital No. 40 of Saint Petersburg
City hospital No 40, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The City Hospital No 40 of Saint Petersburg, Russia, belongs to the largest health care facilities for delivering in-patient definitive and specialized medical care in the North West Russia. The official name is “The Saint Petersburg State Health Care Establishment the City Hospital No 40 of the...
.
The Vodoslivnyy canal runs across the town from east to west and connects the Sestroretskiy Lake with the Gulf of Finland
Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland and Estonia all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn...
(Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...
).
See also
- Local railway lines of historical interest:
- Miller's lineMiller's lineMiller's line was a passenger railway line in Russia from 1873 to 1886, run by the Finnish Railways VR Group. The line ran from Beloostrov to Sestroretsk, and was the site of the world's first functional electric railway.- Organisation :...
- Sestroretsk spur lineSestroretsk spur line-Sestroretsk spur line:This line has been laid by request of the Russian Ministry of Defence for communication of Sestroretsk armory with strategic Riihimäki-Saint Petersburg railroad in 1871....
- Miller's line