Strelna (Saint Petersburg)
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, 2 km from center (Стрельна)
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quarter (urban subdivision), invisible, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Municipal settlement in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, about halfway between Saint Petersburg proper and Petergof, and overlooking the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Population: 12,452 (2010 Census).
Strelna was first mentioned in Cadastral surveying of Vodskaya pyatina in 1500, as the village of Strelna on Retse Strelne on the Sea in the churchyard Kipen Koporsky County. After Treaty of Stolbovo these lands were part of Sweden, and in 1630 in Strelna appears as a baronial estate of Swedish politician Johan Skytte.
Strelna was first mentioned in Cadastral surveying of Vodskaya pyatina in 1500, as the village of Strelna on Retse Strelne on the Sea in the churchyard Kipen Koporsky County. After Treaty of Stolbovo these lands were part of Sweden, and in 1630 in Strelna appears as a baronial estate of Swedish politician Johan Skytte.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strelna
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 59°50'26"N 30°2'45"E
- Petrovsky Fairway 14 km
- The Sea Channel 20 km
- Lomonosov 25 km
- Gatchina 26 km
- Kronstadt 32 km
- Yukky Hills 35 km
- Koltushskaya Hills 36 km
- Oranienbaum Bridgehead 62 km
- The Road of Life 69 km
- Kenozersky National Park 499 km
- Nizhnyaya Koloniya 0.8 km
- Frontovaya ulitsa, 26 0.9 km
- Frontovaya ulitsa, 24 0.9 km
- Shungerovsky forest-park 1.6 km
- Sosnovy pereulok, 11 1.7 km
- Park 1.7 km
- Gorelovsky forest 4.2 km
- Gorelovo municipal district 8.2 km
- Petrodvortsovy District 10 km
- Krasnoselsky District 10 km