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<span>Toggle Economy subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Industry" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Industry"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Industry</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Industry-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Agriculture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Agriculture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Agriculture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Agriculture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transportation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transportation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Transportation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transportation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> 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id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Further reading subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Nature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.1</span> <span>Nature</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-History_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.2</span> <span>History</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-History_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" 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href="https://kbd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82" title="Ленинград област – Kabardian" lang="kbd" hreflang="kbd" data-title="Ленинград област" data-language-autonym="Адыгэбзэ" data-language-local-name="Kabardian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Адыгэбзэ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad-oblast" title="Leningrad-oblast – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Leningrad-oblast" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%B9%D8%A9_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF" title="مقاطعة لينينغراد – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مقاطعة لينينغراد" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93blast_de_Leningr%C3%A1u" title="Óblast de Leningráu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Óblast de Leningráu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninqrad_vilay%C9%99ti" title="Leninqrad vilayəti – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Leninqrad vilayəti" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="لنینقراد اوبلاستی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="لنینقراد اوبلاستی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Chiu" title="Leningrad Chiu – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Leningrad Chiu" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D3%A9%D0%BB%D0%BA%D3%99%D2%BB%D0%B5" title="Ленинград өлкәһе – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Ленинград өлкәһе" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%86%D1%8C" title="Ленінградская вобласць – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Ленінградская вобласць" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D1%86%D1%8C" title="Ленінградзкая вобласьць – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Ленінградзкая вобласьць" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82" title="Ленинградска област – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ленинградска област" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenjingradska_oblast" title="Lenjingradska oblast – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Lenjingradska oblast" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_Leningrad" title="Oblast Leningrad – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Oblast Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93blast_de_Leningrad" title="Óblast de Leningrad – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Óblast de Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%C3%A7%C4%95" title="Ленинград облаçĕ – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Ленинград облаçĕ" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningradskaya_Oblast%27" title="Leningradskaya Oblast' – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Leningradskaya Oblast'" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningradsk%C3%A1_oblast" title="Leningradská oblast – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Leningradská oblast" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_Leningrad" title="Oblast Leningrad – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Oblast Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_oblast" title="Leningrad oblast – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Leningrad oblast" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_oblast" title="Leningrad oblast – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Leningrad oblast" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_Leningrad" title="Oblast Leningrad – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Oblast Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningradi_oblast" title="Leningradi oblast – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Leningradi oblast" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%8C%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%9B%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84" title="Όμπλαστ του Λένινγκραντ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Όμπλαστ του Λένινγκραντ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%81" title="Ленинградонь ёнкс – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="Ленинградонь ёнкс" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93blast_de_Leningrado" title="Óblast de Leningrado – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Óblast de Leningrado" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrada_provinco" title="Leningrada provinco – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Leningrada provinco" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrado_oblasta" title="Leningrado oblasta – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Leningrado oblasta" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF" title="استان لنینگراد – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="استان لنینگراد" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_de_L%C3%A9ningrad" title="Oblast de Léningrad – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Oblast de Léningrad" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_(oblast)" title="Leningrad (oblast) – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Leningrad (oblast)" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%BAige_Leningrad" title="Cúige Leningrad – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Cúige Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad-ch%C3%BB" title="Leningrad-chû – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Leningrad-chû" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EB%8B%8C%EA%B7%B8%EB%9D%BC%EB%93%9C%EC%A3%BC" title="레닌그라드주 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="레닌그라드주" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BC%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A3%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A4%D5%AB_%D5%B4%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A6" title="Լենինգրադի մարզ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Լենինգրադի մարզ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F" title="लेनिनग्राद ओब्लास्ट – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="लेनिनग्राद ओब्लास्ट" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblas%C4%87_Leningrad" title="Oblasć Leningrad – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Oblasć Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenjingradska_oblast" title="Lenjingradska oblast – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Lenjingradska oblast" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinco_Leningrad" title="Provinco Leningrad – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Provinco Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_Leningrad" title="Oblast Leningrad – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Oblast Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8B_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%C3%A6%D1%81%D1%82" title="Ленинграды облæст – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Ленинграды облæст" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%ADngradfylki" title="Leníngradfylki – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Leníngradfylki" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast%27_di_Leningrado" title="Oblast' di Leningrado – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Oblast' di Leningrado" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%93_(%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%95%D7%96)" title="לנינגרד (מחוז) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="לנינגרד (מחוז)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast" title="Leningrad Oblast – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Leningrad Oblast" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A5%E1%83%98" title="ლენინგრადის ოლქი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ლენინგრადის ოლქი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast" title="Leningrad Oblast – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Leningrad Oblast" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C%D1%82" title="Ленинград обласьт – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="Ленинград обласьт" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_de_Leningrad" title="Oblast de Leningrad – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Oblast de Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regio_Leninopolitana" title="Regio Leninopolitana – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Regio Leninopolitana" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%BBe%C5%86ingradas_apgabals" title="Ļeņingradas apgabals – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ļeņingradas apgabals" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrado_sritis" title="Leningrado sritis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Leningrado sritis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblas_Leningrad" title="Oblas Leningrad – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Oblas Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_de_Leningrad" title="Oblast de Leningrad – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Oblast de Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningr%C3%A1di_ter%C3%BClet" title="Leningrádi terület – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Leningrádi terület" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82" title="Ленинградска област – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Ленинградска област" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4" title="लेनिनग्राद ओब्लास्त – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="लेनिनग्राद ओब्लास्त" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A5%E1%83%98" title="ლენინგრადიშ ოლქი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ლენინგრადიშ ოლქი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF" title="لينينجراد – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="لينينجراد" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA" title="لنینگراد اوبلاست – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="لنینگراد اوبلاست" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah_Leningrad" title="Wilayah Leningrad – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Wilayah Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Ci%C5%AD" title="Leningrad Ciŭ – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Leningrad Ciŭ" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B6" title="Ленинград муж – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Ленинград муж" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_Leningrad" title="Oblast Leningrad – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Oblast Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E5%B7%9E" title="レニングラード州 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="レニングラード州" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C" title="Ленинградан область – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Ленинградан область" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeningrad_(Prowins)" title="Leeningrad (Prowins) – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Leeningrad (Prowins)" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_oblast" title="Leningrad oblast – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Leningrad oblast" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_oblast" title="Leningrad oblast – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Leningrad oblast" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Ленинград вел – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="Ленинград вел" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_viloyati" title="Leningrad viloyati – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Leningrad viloyati" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A6_%E0%A8%93%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%A4" title="ਲੈਨਿਨਗ੍ਰਾਦ ਓਬਲਾਸਤ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਲੈਨਿਨਗ੍ਰਾਦ ਓਬਲਾਸਤ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%88" title="لیننگراڈ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="لیننگراڈ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%86%DA%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA" title="ليننګراد ولايت – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ليننګراد ولايت" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obw%C3%B3d_leningradzki" title="Obwód leningradzki – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Obwód leningradzki" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_de_Leningrado" title="Oblast de Leningrado – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Oblast de Leningrado" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_w%C3%A1layat%C4%B1" title="Leningrad wálayatı – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Leningrad wálayatı" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_vil%C3%A2yeti" title="Leningrad vilâyeti – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Leningrad vilâyeti" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiunea_Leningrad" title="Regiunea Leningrad – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Regiunea Leningrad" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C" title="Ленинградская область – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Ленинградская область" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D2%BB%D0%B0" title="Ленинград уобалаһа – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Ленинград уобалаһа" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast" title="Leningrad Oblast – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Leningrad Oblast" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast" title="Leningrad Oblast – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Leningrad Oblast" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningradsk%C3%A1_oblas%C5%A5" title="Leningradská oblasť – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Leningradská oblasť" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrajska_oblast" title="Leningrajska oblast – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Leningrajska oblast" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cu mw-list-item"><a href="https://cu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%94%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C" title="Лєниноградьска область – Church Slavic" lang="cu" hreflang="cu" data-title="Лєниноградьска область" data-language-autonym="Словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ" data-language-local-name="Church Slavic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82" title="Лењинградска област – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Лењинградска област" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenjingradska_oblast" title="Lenjingradska oblast – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Lenjingradska oblast" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningradin_alue" title="Leningradin alue – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Leningradin alue" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_oblast" title="Leningrad oblast – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Leningrad oblast" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_ng_Leningrado" title="Oblast ng Leningrado – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Oblast ng Leningrado" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D" title="லெனின்கிராத் மாகாணம் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="லெனின்கிராத் மாகாணம்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D3%A9%D0%BB%D0%BA%D3%99%D1%81%D0%B5" title="Ленинград өлкәсе – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Ленинград өлкәсе" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%94" title="แคว้นเลนินกราด – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="แคว้นเลนินกราด" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4" title="Вилояти Ленинград – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Вилояти Ленинград" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast%C4%B1" title="Leningrad Oblastı – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Leningrad Oblastı" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-udm mw-list-item"><a href="https://udm.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81" title="Ленинград улос – Udmurt" lang="udm" hreflang="udm" data-title="Ленинград улос" data-language-autonym="Удмурт" data-language-local-name="Udmurt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Удмурт</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C" title="Ленінградська область – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Ленінградська область" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA" title="لیننگراڈ اوبلاست – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="لیننگراڈ اوبلاست" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningradan_agj" title="Leningradan agj – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Leningradan agj" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vepsän kel’</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_(t%E1%BB%89nh)" title="Leningrad (tỉnh) – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Leningrad (tỉnh)" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vls mw-list-item"><a href="https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblast_Leningrad" title="Oblast Leningrad – West Flemish" lang="vls" hreflang="vls" data-title="Oblast Leningrad" data-language-autonym="West-Vlams" data-language-local-name="West Flemish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>West-Vlams</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast" title="Leningrad Oblast – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Leningrad Oblast" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%97%E5%AE%81%E6%A0%BC%E5%8B%92%E5%B7%9E" title="列宁格勒州 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="列宁格勒州" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%97%E5%AF%A7%E6%A0%BC%E5%8B%92%E5%B7%9E" title="列寧格勒州 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="列寧格勒州" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-diq mw-list-item"><a href="https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_(w%C4%B1layet)" title="Leningrad (wılayet) – Zazaki" lang="diq" hreflang="diq" data-title="Leningrad (wılayet)" data-language-autonym="Zazaki" data-language-local-name="Zazaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Zazaki</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%97%E5%AE%81%E6%A0%BC%E5%8B%92%E5%B7%9E" title="列宁格勒州 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" 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class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Administrative center</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gatchina" title="Gatchina">Gatchina</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Body</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Oblast">Legislative Assembly</a><sup id="cite_ref-Legis_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Legis-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Governor of Leningrad Oblast">Governor</a><sup id="cite_ref-HeadTitle_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadTitle-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Drozdenko" title="Aleksandr Drozdenko">Aleksandr Drozdenko</a><sup id="cite_ref-HeadName_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadName-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-area_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-area-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">83,908 km<sup>2</sup> (32,397 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia#List" title="Federal subjects of Russia">38th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2021_Russian_census" title="2021 Russian census">2021 census</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-2021census_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021census-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,000,997</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Estimate <div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2018)<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-e66adbfe26ba21a51c7666f6a75fd2a617bb4cf3-v18_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-e66adbfe26ba21a51c7666f6a75fd2a617bb4cf3-v18-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,813,816</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_subjects_of_Russia_by_population" title="List of federal subjects of Russia by population">23rd</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">24/km<sup>2</sup> (62/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">Urban</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">67.3%</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Rural_area" title="Rural area">Rural</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">32.7%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_in_Russia" title="Time in Russia">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B3" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+3">UTC+3</a> (<a href="/wiki/Moscow_Time" title="Moscow Time">MSK</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2191?uselang=en#P421" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span><sup id="cite_ref-vremeni_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vremeni-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">RU-LEN</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Russia" title="Vehicle registration plates of Russia">License plates</a></th><td class="infobox-data">47, 147</td></tr><tr class="47, 147"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OKTMO" title="OKTMO">OKTMO</a> ID</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">41000000</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a><sup id="cite_ref-Russian_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russian-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.lenobl.ru">http://www.lenobl.ru</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Petersburg_region.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Petersburg_region.png/300px-Petersburg_region.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Petersburg_region.png/450px-Petersburg_region.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Petersburg_region.png/600px-Petersburg_region.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="850" /></a><figcaption>Map of Leningrad Oblast</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jubcoin_2005_10rub_leningradskayaoblast_revers.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Jubcoin_2005_10rub_leningradskayaoblast_revers.gif/200px-Jubcoin_2005_10rub_leningradskayaoblast_revers.gif" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Jubcoin_2005_10rub_leningradskayaoblast_revers.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="250" /></a><figcaption>Commemorative coin of the Bank of Russia with a face value of 10 rubles (2005)</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Leningrad Oblast</b> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Ленинградская область</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian" title="Romanization of Russian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Leningradskaya oblast’</i></span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[lʲɪnʲɪnˈgratskəjə<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈobləsʲtʲ]</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Veps_language" title="Veps language">Veps</a>: <i lang="vep">Leningradan agj</i>; <a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a>: <i lang="fi">Leningradin alue</i>) is a <a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia" title="Federal subjects of Russia">federal subject</a> of <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> (an <a href="/wiki/Oblast" title="Oblast">oblast</a>). The oblast has an area of 84,500 square kilometres (32,600 sq mi) and a population of 2,000,997 (<a href="/wiki/2021_Russian_census" title="2021 Russian census">2021 Census</a>);<sup id="cite_ref-2010Census_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010Census-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> up from 1,716,868 recorded in the <a href="/wiki/2010_Russian_census" title="2010 Russian census">2010 Census</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2002Census_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2002Census-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leningrad Oblast is highly industrialized. Its administrative center and largest city is <a href="/wiki/Gatchina" title="Gatchina">Gatchina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gatchina_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gatchina-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The oblast was established on 1 August 1927, although it was not until 1946 that the oblast's borders had been mostly settled in their present position. The oblast was named after the city of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Leningrad</a>. In 1991, the city restored its original name, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, but the oblast retains the name of Leningrad. It overlaps the historical region of <a href="/wiki/Ingria" title="Ingria">Ingria</a>, and is bordered by <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kymenlaakso" title="Kymenlaakso">Kymenlaakso</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Karelia" title="South Karelia">South Karelia</a>) in the northwest and <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ida-Viru_County" title="Ida-Viru County">Ida-Viru County</a>) in the west, as well as five federal subjects of Russia: the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Karelia" title="Republic of Karelia">Republic of Karelia</a> in the northeast, <a href="/wiki/Vologda_Oblast" title="Vologda Oblast">Vologda Oblast</a> in the east, <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Oblast" title="Novgorod Oblast">Novgorod Oblast</a> in the south, <a href="/wiki/Pskov_Oblast" title="Pskov Oblast">Pskov Oblast</a> in the southwest, and the federal city of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> in the west. </p><p>The first governor of Leningrad Oblast was <a href="/wiki/Vadim_Gustov" title="Vadim Gustov">Vadim Gustov</a> (in 1996–1998). The current governor, since 2012, is <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Drozdenko" title="Aleksandr Drozdenko">Aleksandr Drozdenko</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monrepos_0550.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Monrepos_0550.jpg/220px-Monrepos_0550.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Monrepos_0550.jpg/330px-Monrepos_0550.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Monrepos_0550.jpg/440px-Monrepos_0550.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4330" data-file-height="2165" /></a><figcaption>Monrepos Park in <a href="/wiki/Vyborg" title="Vyborg">Vyborg</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA_-_%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_-_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA_-_%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_-_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA.jpg/220px-%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA_-_%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_-_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA_-_%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_-_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA.jpg/330px-%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA_-_%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_-_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA_-_%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_-_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA.jpg/440px-%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA_-_%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_-_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3750" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption>The Vuoksi in <a href="/wiki/Priozersk" title="Priozersk">Priozersk</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oredezh_river.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Oredezh_river.jpg/220px-Oredezh_river.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Oredezh_river.jpg/330px-Oredezh_river.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Oredezh_river.jpg/440px-Oredezh_river.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Oredezh_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Oredezh River">Oredezh River</a> near <a href="/wiki/Siversky" title="Siversky">Siversky</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Leningrad Oblast is located around the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Finland" title="Gulf of Finland">Gulf of Finland</a> and south of two great freshwater lakes, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Ladoga" title="Lake Ladoga">Lake Ladoga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lake_Onega" title="Lake Onega">Lake Onega</a>. The oblast includes the <a href="/wiki/Karelian_Isthmus" title="Karelian Isthmus">Karelian Isthmus</a> and some islands, including <a href="/wiki/Gogland" title="Gogland">Gogland</a> in the Gulf of Finland and <a href="/wiki/Konevets" title="Konevets">Konevets</a> in Lake Ladoga. </p><p>Much of the area of the oblast belongs to the <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">drainage basin</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Neva_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Neva River">Neva</a>, which is the only outflow of Lake Ladoga. The Neva, which flows to the Gulf of Finland (the city of Saint Petersburg is located in its <a href="/wiki/River_delta" title="River delta">river delta</a>) is relatively short, but its drainage basin is very large, including Lake Onega and <a href="/wiki/Lake_Ilmen" title="Lake Ilmen">Lake Ilmen</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Svir_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Svir River">Svir</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Volkhov_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Volkhov River">Volkhov</a> flow from Lake Onega and Lake Ilmen, respectively, to Lake Ladoga. Other major tributaries of Lake Ladoga include the <a href="/wiki/Vuoksi_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Vuoksi River">Vuoksi</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Syas_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Syas River">Syas</a>. Rivers in the western part of the oblast flow to the Gulf of Finland; the two biggest rivers there are the <a href="/wiki/Luga_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Luga River">Luga</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Narva_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Narva River">Narva</a>, which forms the border of Russia and Estonia. Small areas in the east of the oblast lie within the river basin of the <a href="/wiki/Chagodoshcha_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Chagodoshcha River">Chagodoshcha</a>, a tributary of the <a href="/wiki/Mologa_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Mologa River">Mologa</a>, and of the <a href="/wiki/Suda_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Suda River">Suda</a>, both within the <a href="/wiki/Volga_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Volga River">Volga</a> basin. A <a href="/wiki/Ridgeline" class="mw-redirect" title="Ridgeline">ridgeline</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tikhvinsky_District" title="Tikhvinsky District">Tikhvinsky District</a> in the eastern oblast forms part of the divide between the Baltic Sea and Caspian Sea basins. </p><p>The terrain of Leningrad Oblast is relatively flat and mostly covered with forest and swamps. An exception is the rocky <a href="/wiki/Karelian_Isthmus" title="Karelian Isthmus">Karelian Isthmus</a>, which contains a lake district, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Vepsian_Upland" title="Vepsian Upland">Vepsian Upland</a> in the east. The biggest lakes on the isthmus are <a href="/wiki/Vuoksi_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Vuoksi River">Lake Vuoksa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Sukhodolskoye" title="Lake Sukhodolskoye">Lake Sukhodolskoye</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lake_Otradnoye" title="Lake Otradnoye">Lake Otradnoye</a>. </p><p>Leningrad Oblast contains two federally protected natural areas, the <a href="/wiki/Nizhnesvirsky_Nature_Reserve" title="Nizhnesvirsky Nature Reserve">Nizhnesvirsky Nature Reserve</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mshinskoye_Boloto_Zakaznik" title="Mshinskoye Boloto Zakaznik">Mshinskoye Boloto Zakaznik</a>, both created to protect the forest and swamp landscapes of northwestern Russia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Flora">Flora</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Flora"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most taxonomically diverse vascular plant families are <a href="/wiki/Asteraceae" title="Asteraceae">Asteraceae</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyperaceae" title="Cyperaceae">Cyperaceae</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poaceae" title="Poaceae">Poaceae</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rosaceae" title="Rosaceae">Rosaceae</a>. By far the most diverse genus is <i><a href="/wiki/Carex" title="Carex">Carex</a></i> (68 species). The diversity in genera <i><a href="/wiki/Hieracium" title="Hieracium">Hieracium</a></i> (with <i>Pilosella</i>), <i><a href="/wiki/Ranunculus" title="Ranunculus">Ranunculus</a></i> (with <i>Batrachium</i>), <i><a href="/wiki/Alchemilla" title="Alchemilla">Alchemilla</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Galium" title="Galium">Galium</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Potamogeton" title="Potamogeton">Potamogeton</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Salix" class="mw-redirect" title="Salix">Salix</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Veronica_(plant)" title="Veronica (plant)">Veronica</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Viola_(plant)" title="Viola (plant)">Viola</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Juncus" title="Juncus">Juncus</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Artemisia_(plant)" title="Artemisia (plant)">Artemisia</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Potentilla" title="Potentilla">Potentilla</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Rumex" title="Rumex">Rumex</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Festuca" title="Festuca">Festuca</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Epilobium" title="Epilobium">Epilobium</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Poa" title="Poa">Poa</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Trifolium" class="mw-redirect" title="Trifolium">Trifolium</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Campanula" title="Campanula">Campanula</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Vicia" title="Vicia">Vicia</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Lathyrus" title="Lathyrus">Lathyrus</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Geranium" title="Geranium">Geranium</a></i> is also considerable. The territory has no endemic plant taxa. Vascular plant species of Leningrad Oblast listed in the red data book of Russia are <i><a href="/wiki/Botrychium_simplex" title="Botrychium simplex">Botrychium simplex</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Cephalanthera_rubra" title="Cephalanthera rubra">Cephalanthera rubra</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Cypripedium_calceolus" title="Cypripedium calceolus">Cypripedium calceolus</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Epipogium_aphyllum" title="Epipogium aphyllum">Epipogium aphyllum</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Lobelia_dortmanna" title="Lobelia dortmanna">Lobelia dortmanna</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Myrica_gale" title="Myrica gale">Myrica gale</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ophrys_insectifera" title="Ophrys insectifera">Ophrys insectifera</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Orchis_militaris" title="Orchis militaris">Orchis militaris</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pulsatilla_pratensis" title="Pulsatilla pratensis">Pulsatilla pratensis</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pulsatilla_vernalis" title="Pulsatilla vernalis">Pulsatilla vernalis</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C_%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D1%8F.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img 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data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>The fortress in <a href="/wiki/Staraya_Ladoga" title="Staraya Ladoga">Staraya Ladoga</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ivangorod_fortress_as_seen_from_top_of_Hermann_Castle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Ivangorod_fortress_as_seen_from_top_of_Hermann_Castle.jpg/220px-Ivangorod_fortress_as_seen_from_top_of_Hermann_Castle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Ivangorod_fortress_as_seen_from_top_of_Hermann_Castle.jpg/330px-Ivangorod_fortress_as_seen_from_top_of_Hermann_Castle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Ivangorod_fortress_as_seen_from_top_of_Hermann_Castle.jpg/440px-Ivangorod_fortress_as_seen_from_top_of_Hermann_Castle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3774" data-file-height="2516" /></a><figcaption>Ivangorod fortress</figcaption></figure> <p>The territory of present-day Leningrad Oblast was populated shortly after the end of the <a href="/wiki/Weichselian_glaciation" title="Weichselian glaciation">Weichselian glaciation</a> and now hosts numerous archaeological remnants.<sup id="cite_ref-Lapshin1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lapshin1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lapshin2_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lapshin2-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lebedev_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lebedev-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Volga_trade_route" title="Volga trade route">Volga trade route</a> and <a href="/wiki/Trade_route_from_the_Varangians_to_the_Greeks" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks">trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks</a> crossed the territory. <a href="/wiki/Staraya_Ladoga" title="Staraya Ladoga">Staraya Ladoga</a>, the first capital of legendary <a href="/wiki/Rurik" title="Rurik">Rurik</a>, founded in the 8th-9th century, is situated in the east of the oblast, on the <a href="/wiki/Volkhov_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Volkhov River">Volkhov River</a>. </p><p>In the 12th-15th centuries, the territory was divided between the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Sweden">Kingdom of Sweden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Republic" title="Novgorod Republic">Novgorod Republic</a> (see <a href="/wiki/Swedish-Novgorodian_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish-Novgorodian Wars">Swedish-Novgorodian Wars</a>) and populated mostly by various <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Finns" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic Finns">Baltic Finns</a> people such as <a href="/wiki/Karelians" title="Karelians">Karelians</a> (northwest), <a href="/wiki/Izhorians" title="Izhorians">Izhorians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Votians" title="Votians">Votes</a> (west), <a href="/wiki/Vepsians" title="Vepsians">Vepsians</a> (east), as well as <a href="/wiki/Ilmen_Slavs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilmen Slavs">Ilmen Slavs</a> of Novgorod (south). During the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Swedish_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Russo-Swedish Wars">Russo-Swedish Wars</a> of the 15th-17th centuries, the border moved back and forth over the land. </p><p>The central part of the territory is known as the historical region of <a href="/wiki/Ingria" title="Ingria">Ingria</a> (or the land of Izhora) and in the 17th century, after most of the present-day territory of Leningrad Oblast was captured by Sweden with the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Stolbovo" title="Treaty of Stolbovo">Treaty of Stolbovo</a> of 1617, became subject to substantial Finnish Lutheran population influx from <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Karelia" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish Karelia">Finnish Karelia</a> (which included <a href="/wiki/Karelian_Isthmus" title="Karelian Isthmus">Karelian Isthmus</a>, the northwestern part of present-day Leningrad Oblast) and <a href="/wiki/Savonia_(historical_province)" title="Savonia (historical province)">Savonia</a>. Having faced religious pressure from Lutheran pastors and Swedish authorities, the local Orthodox population of Russian and Finnic ancestry massively fled from Ingria to neighbour Russian provinces, so <a href="/wiki/Ingrian_Finns" title="Ingrian Finns">Ingrian Finns</a> soon became the dominant ethnic group.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_War" title="Great Northern War">Great Northern War</a> (1700–1721) the territory of what is now Leningrad Oblast was conquered from Sweden by Russia under <a href="/wiki/Peter_the_Great" title="Peter the Great">Peter the Great</a>, who founded <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> amidst the land in 1703, which soon became the capital of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>. In 1708, most of the territory was organized into <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Governorate" title="Saint Petersburg Governorate">Ingermanland Governorate</a> under Governor General <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Danilovich_Menshikov" title="Alexander Danilovich Menshikov">Alexander Menshikov</a>. It was renamed Saint Petersburg Governorate in 1710 (the borders of that governorate, however, differed very significantly from those of the present-day oblast and included much of the areas of current Novgorod, Pskov, and Vologda Oblasts). In 1721, the territorial concessions of Sweden were confirmed with the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Nystad" title="Treaty of Nystad">Treaty of Nystad</a>. </p><p>The life of the countryside was greatly influenced by the vicinity of the imperial capital, which became a growing market for its agricultural production as well as the main consumer of its mineral and forest resources. In 1719–1810, <a href="/wiki/Ladoga_Canal" title="Ladoga Canal">Ladoga Canal</a> was dug between the <a href="/wiki/Svir_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Svir River">Svir River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Neva_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Neva River">Neva River</a> as part of the Volga-Baltic waterway to bypass stormy waters of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Ladoga" title="Lake Ladoga">Lake Ladoga</a>. Since the advent of rail transport in the late 19th century, the areas in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg had been popular summer resort destinations (<a href="/wiki/Dacha" title="Dacha">dachas</a>) for its residents. However, while Saint Petersburg itself was populated mostly by Russians from the very beginning, it was not until the 20th century that its surrounding population was Russified. </p><p>In 1914, with the beginning of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, Saint Petersburg was renamed Petrograd and the governorate was accordingly renamed Petrograd Governorate. After the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution_(1917)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Revolution (1917)">Russian Revolution</a>, in 1918, the capital was transferred from Petrograd to <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, farther from the borders of the country. In 1919, during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>, the Northwestern <a href="/wiki/White_Army" title="White Army">White Army</a> advancing from Estonia and led by <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Yudenich" title="Nikolai Yudenich">Nikolai Yudenich</a> tried to capture Petrograd and even managed to reach its southern outskirts, but the attack against the Red Army under <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> ultimately failed, and Yudenich retreated. The border with Estonia was established in the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Tartu_(Russian%E2%80%93Estonian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Estonian)">Russian-Estonian Treaty of Tartu</a> of 1920. <a href="/wiki/Heimosodat" title="Heimosodat">Finland-backed</a> Ingrian Finns of <a href="/wiki/North_Ingria" title="North Ingria">North Ingria</a> attempted to secede in 1918–1920, but were incorporated back with the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Tartu_(Russian%E2%80%93Finnish)" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Finnish)">Russian-Finnish Treaty of Tartu</a>, which settled the border between Finland and Soviet Russia. In 1924, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad, and Petrograd Governorate was again renamed accordingly (Leningrad Governorate). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leningrad_Oblast">Leningrad Oblast</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Leningrad Oblast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Leningrad Oblast was established on 1 August 1927, by the resolutions of the <a href="/wiki/All-Russian_Central_Executive_Committee" title="All-Russian Central Executive Committee">All-Russian Central Executive Committee</a> "On the Establishment of Leningrad Oblast" and "On the Borders and Composition of the Okrugs of Leningrad Oblast"<sup id="cite_ref-ATSBookMurm_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ATSBookMurm-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by merging <a href="/wiki/Cherepovets_Governorate" title="Cherepovets Governorate">Cherepovets</a>, Leningrad, <a href="/wiki/Murmansk_Governorate" title="Murmansk Governorate">Murmansk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Governorate" title="Novgorod Governorate">Novgorod</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pskov_Governorate" title="Pskov Governorate">Pskov Governorates</a>. The territory of the oblast corresponded to the modern territories of the present-day Leningrad Oblast (with the exception of the <a href="/wiki/Karelian_Isthmus" title="Karelian Isthmus">Karelian Isthmus</a> and the territories along the border with Estonia), <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Oblast" title="Novgorod Oblast">Novgorod Oblast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pskov_Oblast" title="Pskov Oblast">Pskov Oblast</a>, parts of <a href="/wiki/Vologda_Oblast" title="Vologda Oblast">Vologda Oblast</a>, most of <a href="/wiki/Murmansk_Oblast" title="Murmansk Oblast">Murmansk Oblast</a>, and the federal city of Saint Petersburg. The total area of the oblast was 360,400 square kilometres (139,200 sq mi);<sup id="cite_ref-ATSBookLengr_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ATSBookLengr-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> more than four times larger than the modern entity. Administratively, the oblast was divided into nine <a href="/wiki/Okrug" title="Okrug">okrugs</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Borovichi_Okrug&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Borovichi Okrug (page does not exist)">Borovichi</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cherepovets_Okrug&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cherepovets Okrug (page does not exist)">Cherepovets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leningrad_Okrug" title="Leningrad Okrug">Leningrad</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lodeynoye_Pole_Okrug&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lodeynoye Pole Okrug (page does not exist)">Lodeynoye Pole</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Luga_Okrug&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luga Okrug (page does not exist)">Luga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Murmansk_Okrug" title="Murmansk Okrug">Murmansk</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Novgorod_Okrug&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Novgorod Okrug (page does not exist)">Novgorod</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pskov_Okrug&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pskov Okrug (page does not exist)">Pskov</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Velikiye_Luki_Okrug&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Velikiye Luki Okrug (page does not exist)">Velikiye Luki</a>), each of which was in turn subdivided into <a href="/wiki/Raion" title="Raion">districts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ATSBookLengr_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ATSBookLengr-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1929, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Velikiye_Luki_Okrug&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Velikiye Luki Okrug (page does not exist)">Velikiye Luki Okrug</a> was transferred to newly formed <a href="/wiki/Western_Oblast" title="Western Oblast">Western Oblast</a>. Leningrad was administratively separated from Leningrad Oblast in December 1931. In 1935 five southernmost districts were made part of <a href="/wiki/Kalinin_Oblast" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalinin Oblast">Kalinin Oblast</a>. In 1936 some parts of the territory of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Suburban_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leningrad Suburban District (page does not exist)">Leningrad Suburban District</a> of Leningrad was returned to Leningrad Oblast and divided into <a href="/wiki/Vsevolozhsky_District" title="Vsevolozhsky District">Vsevolozhsky District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Krasnoselsky_District,_Saint_Petersburg" title="Krasnoselsky District, Saint Petersburg">Krasnoselsky District</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pargolovsky_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pargolovsky District (page does not exist)">Pargolovsky District</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Slutsky_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Slutsky District (page does not exist)">Slutsky District</a> (renamed Pavlovsky District in 1944). <a href="/wiki/Vologda_Oblast" title="Vologda Oblast">Vologda Oblast</a>, which has included the easternmost districts of Leningrad Oblast (former Cherepovets Governorate), was created in 1937. <a href="/wiki/Murmansk_Oblast" title="Murmansk Oblast">Murmansk Oblast</a> was split from Leningrad Oblast in 1938. </p><p>In the autumn of 1934, the <a href="/wiki/Border_Security_Zone_of_Russia" title="Border Security Zone of Russia">Forbidden Border Zone</a> along the western border of the Soviet Union was established, where nobody could appear without special permission issued by the <a href="/wiki/NKVD" title="NKVD">NKVD</a>. It was officially only 7.5 km deep initially, but along the Estonian border it extended to as much as 90 km. The zone was to be cleansed of Finnic and other peoples who were considered "politically unreliable" by the regime.<sup id="cite_ref-matley_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-matley-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-martin_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-martin-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starting from the 1929, the Soviet authorities carried out <a href="/wiki/Deportations_of_the_Ingrian_Finns" title="Deportations of the Ingrian Finns">mass deportations</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ingrian_Finn" class="mw-redirect" title="Ingrian Finn">Ingrian Finnish</a> population of the oblast, which constituted the majority in many rural localities as late as in the beginning of the 20th century, to the east, replacing them with people from other parts of the Soviet Union. </p><p>On 30 November 1939, the Soviet Union waged the <a href="/wiki/Winter_War" title="Winter War">Winter War</a> against neighbouring Finland and with the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Peace_Treaty" title="Moscow Peace Treaty">Moscow Peace Treaty</a> in 1940 gained some territories, including the <a href="/wiki/Karelian_Isthmus" title="Karelian Isthmus">Karelian Isthmus</a>. Their Karelian population was <a href="/wiki/Evacuation_of_Finnish_Karelia" title="Evacuation of Finnish Karelia">hastily evacuated</a> to inner Finland and later replaced with people from other parts of the Soviet Union. A small part of the territory (the municipalities of <a href="/wiki/Pobeda,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Pobeda, Leningrad Oblast">Kanneljärvi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Primorsk,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast">Koivisto</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sosnovo,_Priozersky_District,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Sosnovo, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast">Rautu</a>) was incorporated into Leningrad Oblast, the rest being included within the <a href="/wiki/Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic">Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic</a>. </p><p>In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a>, and shortly thereafter the territory became the site of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leningrad" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Leningrad">Battle of Leningrad</a>. The Wehrmacht captured the southwestern part of the oblast and reached <a href="/wiki/Tikhvin" title="Tikhvin">Tikhvin</a> in the east, while Finnish troops <a href="/wiki/Finnish_reconquest_of_the_Karelian_Isthmus_(1941)" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish reconquest of the Karelian Isthmus (1941)">quickly recaptured the ceded territories</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Continuation_War" title="Continuation War">Continuation War</a>, encircling Leningrad from the land. In 1944 Soviet offensives managed to expel the Wehrmacht and <a href="/wiki/Fourth_strategic_offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth strategic offensive">put military pressure</a> on Finland, which ceded the <a href="/wiki/Karelian_Isthmus" title="Karelian Isthmus">Karelian Isthmus</a> again in the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Armistice" title="Moscow Armistice">Moscow Armistice</a> of September 19, 1944. This time the newly acquired territories on the isthmus were incorporated into the Leningrad Oblast (<a href="/wiki/Vyborgsky_District,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast">Vyborgsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Priozersky_District" title="Priozersky District">Priozersky Districts</a>). In 1947 the territorial gains were confirmed with the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Peace_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Paris Peace Treaty">Paris Peace Treaty</a>. <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Oblast" title="Novgorod Oblast">Novgorod</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pskov_Oblast" title="Pskov Oblast">Pskov Oblasts</a> were formed out of the southern parts of Leningrad Oblast in 1944. In January 1945 a small part of the <a href="/wiki/Estonian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Estonian SSR">Estonian SSR</a> to the east of the <a href="/wiki/River_Narva" class="mw-redirect" title="River Narva">River Narva</a> with the town of <a href="/wiki/Jaanilinn" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaanilinn">Jaanilinn</a> (now Ivangorod) was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_SFSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian SFSR">Russian SFSR</a> and incorporated into Leningrad Oblast. Since then, the territory of Leningrad Oblast has not changed significantly, although some suburbs of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) have been excluded from the oblast and incorporated into the city.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 1946 Leningrad gained from the oblast some former Finnish territories along the northern coast of the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Finland" title="Gulf of Finland">Gulf of Finland</a> divided into <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sestroretsky_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sestroretsky District (page does not exist)">Sestroretsky District</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kurortny_District" title="Kurortny District">Kurortny District</a>, including the town of <a href="/wiki/Terijoki" class="mw-redirect" title="Terijoki">Terijoki</a>. </p><p>In 1953, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pavlovsky_District,_Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pavlovsky District, Leningrad Oblast (page does not exist)">Pavlovsky District</a> of the oblast was abolished, and parts of its territory including Pavlovsk were made subordinate to Leningrad. In 1954 the settlements <a href="/wiki/Levashovo,_Saint_Petersburg" title="Levashovo, Saint Petersburg">Levashovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pargolovo" title="Pargolovo">Pargolovo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pesochny,_Russia" title="Pesochny, Russia">Pesochny</a> were also transferred to Leningrad. In 1956 <a href="/wiki/Boksitogorsky_District" title="Boksitogorsky District">Boksitogorsky District</a> of Leningrad Oblast gained a small territory of <a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Oblast" title="Novgorod Oblast">Novgorod Oblast</a>. <a href="/wiki/Uritsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Uritsk">Uritsk</a> was transferred from the oblast to the city of Leningrad in 1963, <a href="/wiki/Krasnoye_Selo" title="Krasnoye Selo">Krasnoye Selo</a> and several settlements nearby—in 1973, <a href="/wiki/Lomonosov,_Russia" title="Lomonosov, Russia">Lomonosov</a>—in 1978. </p><p>After a referendum in 1991, the city of Leningrad was renamed back to Saint Petersburg, but Leningrad Oblast retained its name.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 13 June 1996, Leningrad Oblast, alongside <a href="/wiki/Tver_Oblast" title="Tver Oblast">Tver Oblast</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.<sup id="cite_ref-newsline_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsline-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This agreement would be abolished on 18 April 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-demokratiztsiya_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-demokratiztsiya-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_Russian_subject_-Leningrad_Oblast.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Life_expectancy_in_Russian_subject_-Leningrad_Oblast.png/300px-Life_expectancy_in_Russian_subject_-Leningrad_Oblast.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="229" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Life_expectancy_in_Russian_subject_-Leningrad_Oblast.png/450px-Life_expectancy_in_Russian_subject_-Leningrad_Oblast.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Life_expectancy_in_Russian_subject_-Leningrad_Oblast.png/600px-Life_expectancy_in_Russian_subject_-Leningrad_Oblast.png 2x" data-file-width="940" data-file-height="717" /></a><figcaption>Life expectancy at birth in Leningrad Oblast</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Population</b>: <span class="nowrap">2,000,997 (<a href="/wiki/2021_Russian_census" title="2021 Russian census">2021 Census</a>)</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-2021Census_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021Census-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="nowrap">1,716,868 (<a href="/wiki/2010_Russian_census" title="2010 Russian census">2010 Census</a>)</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-2010Census_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010Census-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="nowrap">1,669,205 (<a href="/wiki/2002_Russian_census" title="2002 Russian census">2002 Census</a>)</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-PopCensus_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopCensus-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="nowrap">1,661,173 (<a href="/wiki/1989_Soviet_census" title="1989 Soviet census">1989 Soviet census</a>)</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-Census1989_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census1989-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style></p><table class="table-pale" style="width:15em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Historical population</caption><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1959</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,244,991</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1970</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,435,729</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+15.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1979</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,519,165</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+5.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1989</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,661,173</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+9.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2002</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1,669,205</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+0.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2010</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,716,868</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2021</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,000,997</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+16.5%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">Source: Census data</td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>Vital statistics for 2022:</b><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><ul><li>Births: 12,082 (6.3 per 1,000)</li> <li>Deaths: 25,976 (13.6 per 1,000)</li></ul> <p><b>Total fertility rate (2022):</b><sup id="cite_ref-gks.ru-tfr_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gks.ru-tfr-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /> 0.87 children per woman </p><p><b>Life expectancy (2021):</b><sup id="cite_ref-rosstat_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rosstat-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /> Total — 70.17 years (male — 65.43, female — 74.94) </p><p><b>Ethnic composition (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-census2021_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2021-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Ethnic group</th> <th>Population </th> <th>Percentage </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a></td> <td>1,642,897 </td> <td>93.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a></td> <td>12,905 </td> <td>0.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Uzbeks" title="Uzbeks">Uzbeks</a></td> <td>7,797 </td> <td>0.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Belarusians" title="Belarusians">Belarusians</a></td> <td>7,527 </td> <td>0.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tatars" title="Tatars">Tatars</a></td> <td>6,805 </td> <td>0.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a></td> <td>6,182 </td> <td>0.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tajiks" title="Tajiks">Tajiks</a></td> <td>4,896 </td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a></td> <td>3,814 </td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kyrgyz_people" title="Kyrgyz people">Kyrgyz</a></td> <td>2,004 </td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Others</td> <td>58,019 </td> <td>3.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ethnicity not stated</td> <td>248,151 </td> <td>— </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1219497266">.mw-parser-output .largestCities-table-background{background:#f9f9f9;color:#222}.mw-parser-output .largestCities-cell-background{background:#f0f0f0;color:#222}</style> <div> <table style="font-size:88%;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100%; border: 1px solid darkgray;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10" style="padding:0.3em 0.75em;"><div style="float:right; width:6em; height:2.6em"> </div><div style="float:left; width:6em; height:2.6em"> </div> <div style="height:2.6em;line-height:1.3em;"><span style="font-size:110%;">Largest cities or towns in Leningrad Oblast</span><br /><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal;">2021 Russian Census</div></div> </th></tr> <tr> <th></th> <th>Rank </th> <th> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Administrative divisions of Leningrad Oblast">Administrative Division</a> </th> <th>Pop. </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vadimrazumov_copter_-_Gatchina_5.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gatchina"><img alt="Gatchina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Vadimrazumov_copter_-_Gatchina_5.jpg/120px-Vadimrazumov_copter_-_Gatchina_5.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Vadimrazumov_copter_-_Gatchina_5.jpg/180px-Vadimrazumov_copter_-_Gatchina_5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Vadimrazumov_copter_-_Gatchina_5.jpg/240px-Vadimrazumov_copter_-_Gatchina_5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1499" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Gatchina" title="Gatchina">Gatchina</a><br /><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83_(4).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Murino"><img alt="Murino" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83_%284%29.jpg/120px-%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83_%284%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83_%284%29.jpg/180px-%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83_%284%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83_%284%29.jpg/240px-%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83_%284%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3929" data-file-height="2945" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Murino,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Murino, Leningrad Oblast">Murino</a> </td> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">1</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Gatchina" title="Gatchina">Gatchina</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Gatchinsky_District" title="Gatchinsky District">Gatchinsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">94,377 </td> <td rowspan="11" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Catfield.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vsevolozhsk"><img alt="Vsevolozhsk" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Catfield.jpg/120px-Catfield.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Catfield.jpg/180px-Catfield.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Catfield.jpg/240px-Catfield.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Vsevolozhsk" title="Vsevolozhsk">Vsevolozhsk</a><br /><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vyborg"><img alt="Vyborg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg/120px-Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="62" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg/180px-Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg/240px-Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4397" data-file-height="2276" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Vyborg" title="Vyborg">Vyborg</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">2</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Murino,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Murino, Leningrad Oblast">Murino</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vsevolozhsky_District" title="Vsevolozhsky District">Vsevolozhsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">89,083 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">3</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vsevolozhsk" title="Vsevolozhsk">Vsevolozhsk</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vsevolozhsky_District" title="Vsevolozhsky District">Vsevolozhsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">79,038 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">4</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vyborg" title="Vyborg">Vyborg</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vyborgsky_District,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast">Vyborgsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">72,530 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">5</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Sosnovy_Bor,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast">Sosnovy Bor</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Sosnovy_Bor,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast">Town of oblast significance of Sosnovy Bor</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">65,367 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">6</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kudrovo" title="Kudrovo">Kudrovo</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vsevolozhsky_District" title="Vsevolozhsky District">Vsevolozhsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">60,791 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">7</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Tikhvin" title="Tikhvin">Tikhvin</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Tikhvinsky_District" title="Tikhvinsky District">Tikhvinsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">55,415 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">8</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kirishi" title="Kirishi">Kirishi</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kirishsky_District" title="Kirishsky District">Kirishsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">51,028 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">9</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kingisepp" title="Kingisepp">Kingisepp</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kingiseppsky_District" title="Kingiseppsky District">Kingiseppsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">49,716 </td></tr> <tr> <td class="largestCities-cell-background" style="text-align:center;">10</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Volkhov" title="Volkhov">Volkhov</a></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Volkhovsky_District" title="Volkhovsky District">Volkhovsky District</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">38,511 </td></tr> </tbody></table></div> <dl><dt>Religion</dt></dl> <div class="notheme barbox tright" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:none"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Religion in Leningrad Oblast as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)<sup id="cite_ref-2012ArenaAtlas_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2012ArenaAtlas-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2012Arena-religion-maps_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2012Arena-religion-maps-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodoxy</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:DarkOrchid; width:55.1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">55.1%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:MediumOrchid; width:0.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Old_Believers" title="Old Believers">Old Believers</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Purple; width:0.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Russia" title="Christianity in Russia">Christians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:DeepSkyBlue; width:4.1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.1%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Russia" title="Islam in Russia">Islam</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Green; width:0.7%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.7%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Rodnovery" class="mw-redirect" title="Rodnovery">Rodnovery</a> and other native faiths</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Red; width:0.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_but_not_religious" title="Spiritual but not religious">Spiritual but not religious</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:DarkSlateGray; width:20.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">20.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">Atheism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">irreligion</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Black; width:8.5%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">8.5%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other and undeclared</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Gray; width:9.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">9.6%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <p>According to a 2012 survey<sup id="cite_ref-2012ArenaAtlas_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2012ArenaAtlas-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 55.1% of the population of Leningrad Oblast adheres to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>, 4% are <a href="/wiki/Nondenominational_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Nondenominational Christianity">unaffiliated</a> generic <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a>, 1% are <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslims</a>, 1% of the population adheres to the <a href="/wiki/Slavic_native_faith" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavic native faith">Slavic native faith</a> (Rodnovery), 1% are <a href="/wiki/Old_Believers" title="Old Believers">Old Believers</a>. In addition, 20% of the population declared to be "<a href="/wiki/Spiritual_but_not_religious" title="Spiritual but not religious">spiritual but not religious</a>", 8% is <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheist</a>, and 9.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.<sup id="cite_ref-2012ArenaAtlas_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2012ArenaAtlas-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lenoblzaks2014.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Lenoblzaks2014.jpg/220px-Lenoblzaks2014.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Lenoblzaks2014.jpg/330px-Lenoblzaks2014.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Lenoblzaks2014.jpg/440px-Lenoblzaks2014.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3746" data-file-height="1860" /></a><figcaption>The building of the Government and the Legislative Assembly of the region on Proletarian Dictatorship Square in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a></figcaption></figure> <p>State power in the region is exercised on the basis of the Charter, which was adopted on 27 October 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The highest official of the region is the <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Governor of Leningrad Oblast">governor</a>, who is elected for a term of five years. Since 28 May 2012, he has been <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Drozdenko" title="Aleksandr Drozdenko">Aleksandr Drozdenko</a>. </p><p>The executive power in the region is exercised by the administration, which includes: </p> <ul><li>The government of the Leningrad Oblast is the highest executive body of state power, which includes the Governor (Chairman of the Government), vice-governors and chairmen of committees</li> <li>sectoral, territorial and other executive authorities</li></ul> <p>Legislative power in the region is exercised by the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Oblast">Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Oblast</a>, which consists of 50 deputies elected by the region's inhabitants according to a mixed proportional-majority system for a term of 5 years. In 2016, the Legislative Assembly of the sixth convocation was formed, in which there are 4 factions: <a href="/wiki/United_Russia" title="United Russia">United Russia</a> (40 deputies), <a href="/wiki/A_Just_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="A Just Russia">A Just Russia</a> (3 deputies), <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Communist Party of the Russian Federation">Communist Party of the Russian Federation</a> (3 deputies), <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_of_Russia" title="Liberal Democratic Party of Russia">Liberal Democratic Party of Russia</a> (4 deputies). The Chairman of the Legislative Assembly is Sergei Bebenin. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_secretaries_of_the_Leningrad_Oblast_CPSU_Committee">First secretaries of the Leningrad Oblast CPSU Committee</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: First secretaries of the Leningrad Oblast CPSU Committee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Leningrad_Regional_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a></div> <p>In the period when they were the most important authority in the oblast (1927 to 1991), the following first secretaries were appointed,<sup id="cite_ref-list1_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-list1-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1927-1934 <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Kirov" title="Sergei Kirov">Sergey Mironovich Kirov</a>, assassinated</li> <li>1934-1945 <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Zhdanov" title="Andrei Zhdanov">Andrey Andreyevich Zhdanov</a></li> <li>1945-1946 <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Kuznetsov" title="Alexey Kuznetsov">Alexey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov</a>, subsequently executed</li> <li>1946-1949 <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Popkov" title="Pyotr Popkov">Pyotr Sergeyevich Popkov</a>, subsequently executed</li> <li>1949-1953 <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Andrianov_(politician)" title="Vasily Andrianov (politician)">Vasily Mikhaylovich Andrianov</a></li> <li>1953-1957 <a href="/wiki/Frol_Kozlov" title="Frol Kozlov">Frol Romanovich Kozlov</a></li> <li>1957-1962 <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Spiridonov" title="Ivan Spiridonov">Ivan Vasilyevich Spiridonov</a></li> <li>1962-1970 <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Tolstikov" title="Vasily Tolstikov">Vasily Sergeyevich Tolstikov</a></li> <li>1970-1983 <a href="/wiki/Grigory_Romanov" title="Grigory Romanov">Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov</a></li> <li>1983-1985 <a href="/wiki/Lev_Zaykov" title="Lev Zaykov">Lev Nikolayevich Zaykov</a></li> <li>1985-1989 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yury_Solovyov_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yury Solovyov (politician) (page does not exist)">Yury Filippovich Solovyov</a></li> <li>1989-1991 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Boris_Gidaspov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boris Gidaspov (page does not exist)">Boris Veniaminovich Gidaspov</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Governors">Governors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Governors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since 1991, <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Governor of Leningrad Oblast">governors</a> were sometimes appointed, and sometimes elected,<sup id="cite_ref-list2_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-list2-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1991-1996 <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Semyonovich_Belyakov" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Semyonovich Belyakov">Alexander Semyonovich Belyakov</a>, head of the administration, appointed;</li> <li>1996-1998 <a href="/wiki/Vadim_Gustov" title="Vadim Gustov">Vadim Anatolyevich Gustov</a>, governor, elected;</li> <li>1998-2012 <a href="/wiki/Valery_Serdyukov" title="Valery Serdyukov">Valery Pavlovich Serdyukov</a>, governor, elected, then appointed;</li> <li>2012- <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Drozdenko" title="Aleksandr Drozdenko">Aleksandr Yuryevich Drozdenko</a>, appointed.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Administrative divisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Administrative divisions of Leningrad Oblast">Administrative divisions of Leningrad Oblast</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Russia#Administrative_divisions" class="mw-redirect" title="Subdivisions of Russia">Administratively</a>, Leningrad Oblast is divided into seventeen <a href="/wiki/Raion" title="Raion">districts</a> and one <a href="/wiki/City_of_federal_subject_significance" title="City of federal subject significance">town of oblast significance</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sosnovy_Bor,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast">Sosnovy Bor</a>). In terms of area, the largest administrative district is <a href="/wiki/Podporozhsky_District" title="Podporozhsky District">Podporozhsky</a> (7,706 square kilometers (2,975 sq mi)), and the smallest is <a href="/wiki/Lomonosovsky_District,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast">Lomonosovsky</a> (1,919 square kilometers (741 sq mi)). </p><p>Lomonosovsky District is the only district in Russia that has its <a href="/wiki/Administrative_center" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative center">administrative center</a> (the town of <a href="/wiki/Lomonosov,_Russia" title="Lomonosov, Russia">Lomonosov</a>) located within a different <a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia" title="Federal subjects of Russia">federal subject</a>. While the district is a part of Leningrad Oblast, Lomonosov is located within the <a href="/wiki/Federal_cities_of_Russia" title="Federal cities of Russia">federal city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Industry">Industry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The oblast, particularly the areas adjacent to Saint Petersburg, is heavily industrialized. The major enterprises include the <a href="/wiki/Kinef" title="Kinef">oil refinery</a> in Kirishi, the Ford car assembly plant, Hyundai Russia assembly plant and the Rexam PLC Beverage Can Europe and Asia packaging plant in Vsevolozhsk, the paper mill in Syssstroy, and the paper mill and the plant producing oil platforms in Vyborg, and the <a href="/wiki/Tikhvin_industrial_site" class="mw-redirect" title="Tikhvin industrial site">Tikhvin industrial site</a> in Tikhvin. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Agriculture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main agricultural specializations of the oblast are cattle breeding with meat and milk production and poultry production. The main agricultural lands are in the east and in the southwest of the oblast. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transportation">Transportation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%94%D0%A21-008,_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/%D0%94%D0%A21-008%2C_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD.jpg/220px-%D0%94%D0%A21-008%2C_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/%D0%94%D0%A21-008%2C_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD.jpg/330px-%D0%94%D0%A21-008%2C_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/%D0%94%D0%A21-008%2C_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD.jpg/440px-%D0%94%D0%A21-008%2C_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4272" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/DT1_multiple_unit" title="DT1 multiple unit">DT1 multiple unit</a> <a href="/wiki/Diesel_locomotive" title="Diesel locomotive">Diesel train</a> in Veymarn</figcaption></figure> <p>Saint-Petersburg is a major railway hub, and all railways running to it cross also Leningrad Oblast. They connect Saint-Petersburg with Moscow (<a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_%E2%80%93_Moscow_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Petersburg – Moscow Railway">Saint Petersburg – Moscow Railway</a>), <a href="/wiki/Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a> via <a href="/wiki/Vyborg" title="Vyborg">Vyborg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Murmansk" title="Murmansk">Murmansk</a> via <a href="/wiki/Petrozavodsk" title="Petrozavodsk">Petrozavodsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sortavala" title="Sortavala">Sortavala</a> via <a href="/wiki/Priozersk" title="Priozersk">Priozersk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tallinn" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</a> via <a href="/wiki/Kingisepp" title="Kingisepp">Kingisepp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Riga" title="Riga">Riga</a> via <a href="/wiki/Pskov" title="Pskov">Pskov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vitebsk" title="Vitebsk">Vitebsk</a> via <a href="/wiki/Dno" title="Dno">Dno</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Veliky_Novgorod" title="Veliky Novgorod">Veliky Novgorod</a>. There is a network of railways at the <a href="/wiki/Karelian_Isthmus" title="Karelian Isthmus">Karelian Isthmus</a>, in particular, connecting Vyborg and Priozersk, as well as south of Saint-Petersburg. There also railway lines connecting <a href="/w/index.php?title=Veymarn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Veymarn (page does not exist)">Veymarn</a> with <a href="/wiki/Slantsy,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast">Slantsy</a>, Veymarn with <a href="/wiki/Petergof" title="Petergof">Petergof</a> via <a href="/wiki/Sosnovy_Bor" title="Sosnovy Bor">Sosnovy Bor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mga" title="Mga">Mga</a> with <a href="/wiki/Sonkovo" title="Sonkovo">Sonkovo</a> via <a href="/wiki/Kirishi" title="Kirishi">Kirishi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Volkhov" title="Volkhov">Volkhov</a> with <a href="/wiki/Vologda" title="Vologda">Vologda</a> via <a href="/wiki/Tikhvin" title="Tikhvin">Tikhvin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cherepovets" title="Cherepovets">Cherepovets</a>, Volkhov with <a href="/wiki/Chudovo,_Chudovsky_District,_Novgorod_Oblast" title="Chudovo, Chudovsky District, Novgorod Oblast">Chudovo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lodeynoye_Pole" title="Lodeynoye Pole">Lodeynoye Pole</a> with Sortavala via <a href="/wiki/Olonets" title="Olonets">Olonets</a>. Most of them support intensive passenger and cargo traffic. </p><p>Paved roads well cover the western and the central parts of Leningrad Oblast. The <a href="/wiki/M10_highway_(Russia)" title="M10 highway (Russia)">M10 highway</a> connects Saint Petersburg with Moscow via Veliky Novgorod in the south and with the Finnish border, continuing across the border to Helsinki, in the north. It is split between European routes <a href="/wiki/European_route_E18" title="European route E18">E18</a> (Saint Petersburg to Finland) and <a href="/wiki/European_route_E105" title="European route E105">E105</a> (Saint Petersburg to Moscow), and much of it within the oblast is built as a dual carriageway. <a href="/wiki/R21_highway_(Russia)" title="R21 highway (Russia)">R21 highway</a> (also part of E105) runs from Saint Petersburg to Murmansk via Petrozavodsk, and <a href="/wiki/A180_highway_(Russia)" title="A180 highway (Russia)">A180</a> (part of <a href="/wiki/European_route_E20" title="European route E20">E20</a>) connects Saint Petersburg with <a href="/wiki/Ivangorod" title="Ivangorod">Ivangorod</a> and continues across the Estonian border to Tallinn. <a href="/wiki/R23_highway_(Russia)" title="R23 highway (Russia)">R23</a> connects Saint Petersburg with Pskov; it is a part of the <a href="/wiki/European_route_E95" title="European route E95">E95</a>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=A114_highway_(Russia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A114 highway (Russia) (page does not exist)">A114</a> runs to Vologda via Cherepovets. A <a href="/wiki/Moscow%E2%80%93Saint_Petersburg_motorway" title="Moscow–Saint Petersburg motorway">paid motorway between Saint Petersburg and Moscow</a> and the new A121 from Saint-Petersburg to <a href="/wiki/Sortavala" title="Sortavala">Sortavala</a>, around the Western coast of Ladoga<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are under construction. Roads are well served by bus traffic. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Luga_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Luga River">Luga</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Svir_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Svir River">Svir</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Volkhov_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Volkhov River">Volkhov</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Neva_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Neva River">Neva</a> are all navigable and heavily user for cargo transport, however, there is no scheduled passenger navigation within the oblast, except for seasonal leisure river cruises from Saint-Petersburg. The <a href="/wiki/Onega_Canal" title="Onega Canal">Onega Canal</a>, shared with Vologda Oblast, serves as a bypass of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Onega" title="Lake Onega">Lake Onega</a> from the south. Similarly, the <a href="/wiki/Ladoga_Canal" title="Ladoga Canal">Ladoga Canal</a> bypasses <a href="/wiki/Lake_Ladoga" title="Lake Ladoga">Lake Ladoga</a> from the east, from the Svir to the Neva. It is a part of the <a href="/wiki/Volga%E2%80%93Baltic_Waterway" title="Volga–Baltic Waterway">Volga–Baltic Waterway</a>. In contrast, the <a href="/wiki/Tikhvinskaya_water_system" title="Tikhvinskaya water system">Tikhvinskaya water system</a>, connecting the <a href="/wiki/Syas_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Syas River">Syas</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mologa_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Mologa River">Mologa</a>, which provided access from the Ladoga to the river basin of the Volga, is disused. The trans-border <a href="/wiki/Saimaa_Canal" title="Saimaa Canal">Saimaa Canal</a> connects <a href="/wiki/Saimaa" title="Saimaa">Lake Saimaa</a> in Finland with the Gulf of Finland, has special status, and is occasionally used for passenger navigation. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ust-Luga" title="Ust-Luga">Ust-Luga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vyborg" title="Vyborg">Vyborg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vysotsk" title="Vysotsk">Vysotsk</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Primorsk,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast">Primorsk</a> are the major sea terminals on the Gulf of Finland. </p><p>There is a number of <a href="/wiki/Aerodrome" title="Aerodrome">airfields</a> in Leningrad oblast that are now used only by the <a href="/wiki/General_aviation" title="General aviation">general aviation</a>. Scheduled and international flights are available exclusively from <a href="/wiki/Pulkovo_Airport" title="Pulkovo Airport">Pulkovo airport</a> in Saint-Petersburg.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Energy">Energy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Energy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%AD%D0%A1_(8).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%AD%D0%A1_%288%29.JPG/220px-%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%AD%D0%A1_%288%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%AD%D0%A1_%288%29.JPG/330px-%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%AD%D0%A1_%288%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%AD%D0%A1_%288%29.JPG/440px-%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%93%D0%AD%D0%A1_%288%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1712" /></a><figcaption>Lock at the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Svir_Hydroelectric_Station" title="Upper Svir Hydroelectric Station">Upper Svir Hydroelectric Station</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant" title="Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant">Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant</a> is located in the city of <a href="/wiki/Sosnovy_Bor,_Leningrad_Oblast" title="Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast">Sosnovy Bor</a>. There are four major hydroelectric plants in the oblast. The <a href="/wiki/Volkhov_Hydroelectric_Station" title="Volkhov Hydroelectric Station">Volkhov Hydroelectric Station</a>, on the Volkhov River, was constructed in 1921 and became the first major hydropower station in the Soviet Union. The others are the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Svir_Hydroelectric_Station" title="Upper Svir Hydroelectric Station">Upper Svir Hydroelectric Station</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Svir_Hydroelectric_Station" title="Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station">Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station</a>, both on the Svir River, and the <a href="/wiki/Narva_Hydroelectric_Station" title="Narva Hydroelectric Station">Narva Hydroelectric Station</a> on the Narva River. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Science_and_technology">Science and technology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Science and technology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are many science and high-tech institutions around Saint Petersburg, some of which are located in the oblast. For example, Gatchina is the site of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Petersburg_Nuclear_Physics_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (page does not exist)">Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%83%D1%82_%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%91._%D0%9F._%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="ru:Петербургский институт ядерной физики имени Б. П. Константинова">ru</a>]</span><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Sosnovy Bor hosts the Research Institute of Optical and Electronic Devices. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_recreation">Culture and recreation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Culture and recreation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architecture">Architecture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg/220px-Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg/330px-Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg/440px-Vyborg_June2012_View_from_Olaf_Tower_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4397" data-file-height="2276" /></a><figcaption>The historical center of Vyborg</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82.jpg/220px-%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82.jpg/330px-%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82.jpg/440px-%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3275" data-file-height="2235" /></a><figcaption>The Gimreka Ensemble</figcaption></figure> <p>Since prehistory, the Volkhov and the Neva Rivers were constituents of major trade routes, and archaeological sites dot their banks. <a href="/wiki/Staraya_Ladoga" title="Staraya Ladoga">Staraya Ladoga</a> has many pre-1700 sites, including two of about a couple of dozens standing <a href="/wiki/List_of_buildings_of_pre-Mongol_Rus" class="mw-redirect" title="List of buildings of pre-Mongol Rus">pre-Mongol churches</a> in Russia. Both of them were built in the 1160s. The <a href="/wiki/Oreshek_Fortress" title="Oreshek Fortress">Oreshek Fortress</a> in <a href="/wiki/Shlisselburg" title="Shlisselburg">Shlisselburg</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Koporye" title="Koporye">Koporye Fortress</a>, both built in the 14th century, and the <a href="/wiki/Ivangorod_Fortress" title="Ivangorod Fortress">Ivangorod Fortress</a>, originally built in 1492, are excellent examples of Russian fortification art. Podporozhsky District contains the best samples of wooden ecclesiastical architecture in Leningrad Oblast, some of which are collectively referred to as <i>Podporozhye Ring</i>: The Resurrection Church in the settlement of <a href="/wiki/Vazhiny" title="Vazhiny">Vazhiny</a>, the Saint Nicholas Church in the village of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Soginitsy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Soginitsy (page does not exist)">Soginitsy</a>, the Sts Peter and Paul Chapel in the village of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zaozerye,_Podporozhsky_District,_Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zaozerye, Podporozhsky District, Leningrad Oblast (page does not exist)">Zaozerye</a>, and the Saint Athanasy chapel in the village of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Posad,_Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Posad, Leningrad Oblast (page does not exist)">Posad</a>. The two other notable wooden churches are located in the villages of <a href="/wiki/Gimreka" title="Gimreka">Gimreka</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shcheleyki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shcheleyki (page does not exist)">Shcheleyki</a> close to the Onega Lakeshore. The center of <a href="/wiki/Vyborg" title="Vyborg">Vyborg</a> preserves many examples of medieval Swedish architecture, unique for Russia. </p><p>After Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703, many estates and residences were founded around the city. Some of them still stand and are listed as World Heritage sites, aggregated into the site of <a href="/wiki/Historic_Centre_of_Saint_Petersburg_and_Related_Groups_of_Monuments" title="Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments">Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments</a>. includes, among others, estates in <a href="/wiki/Gostilitsy" title="Gostilitsy">Gostilitsy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ropsha" title="Ropsha">Ropsha</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Taytsy" title="Taytsy">Taytsy</a>. </p><p>Localities in the Karelian Isthmus preserve some fine inter-war Finnish architecture. The best-known example is the <a href="/wiki/Vyborg_Library" title="Vyborg Library">Viipuri Municipal Library</a> by <a href="/wiki/Alvar_Aalto" title="Alvar Aalto">Alvar Aalto</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twin_regions">Twin regions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Twin regions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"><img alt="Denmark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></a></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Aarhus_Municipality" title="Aarhus Municipality">Aarhus Municipality</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea"><img alt="South Korea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/South_Chungcheong_Province" title="South Chungcheong Province">South Chungcheong Province</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan"><img alt="Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Prefecture" title="Kyoto Prefecture">Kyoto Prefecture</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" 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href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> (from 1987)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FederalDistrict-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FederalDistrict_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г.</span></span> (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 <i>On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District</i>. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EconomicRegion-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-EconomicRegion_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР.</span></span> (<a href="/wiki/Gosstandart" title="Gosstandart">Gosstandart</a> of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 <i>Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions</i>, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Anthem-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Anthem_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Law #90</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Legis-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Legis_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Charter of Leningrad Oblast, Article 25</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HeadName-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HeadName_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Official website of Leningrad Oblast. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lenobl.ru/governor/biograf">Alexander Yuryevich Drozdenko</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170910220129/http://www.lenobl.ru/governor/biograf">Archived</a> September 10, 2017, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Governor of Leningrad Oblast <span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HeadTitle-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HeadTitle_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Charter of Leningrad Oblast, Article 18</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-area-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-area_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220209085730/https://rosreestr.gov.ru/upload/Doc/06-upr/Ф.%2022%20за%202019%20год%20(по%20субъектам%20РФ).doc">"Сведения о наличии и распределении земель в Российской Федерации на 01.01.2019 (в разрезе субъектов Российской Федерации)"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Federal_Service_for_State_Registration,_Cadastre_and_Cartography" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography">Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography</a>. 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Leningrad: Лениздат.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5+%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8&rft.place=Leningrad&rft.pub=%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82&rft.date=1973&rft.au=%D0%92.+%D0%92.+%D0%93%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B2&rft.au=%D0%90.+%D0%A2.+%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeningrad+Oblast" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nature">Nature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Nature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Айрапетьянц А.Э., Стрелков П.П., Фокин И.М. <i>Звери</i>. [Природа Ленинградской области]. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1987.</li> <li>Балашова Н.Б., Никитина В.Н. <i>Водоросли</i> [Природа Ленинградской области]. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1989. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-289-00344-4" title="Special:BookSources/5-289-00344-4">5-289-00344-4</a></li> <li><i>Биоразнообразие Ленинградской области (Водоросли. Грибы. Лишайники. Мохообразные. Беспозвоночные животные. Рыбы и рыбообразные)</i> / Под. ред. Н.Б.Балашовой, А.А.Заварзина. - (Труды Санкт-Петербургского общества естествоиспытателей. Серия 6. Том 2.). – Saint-Petersburg: Изд-во СПб. университета, 1999.</li> <li>Бобров Р.В. <i>Леса Ленинградской области</i>. Leningrad Лениздат, 1979.</li> <li>Бродский А.К., Львовский А.Л. <i>Пауки, насекомые</i> [Природа Ленинградской области]. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1990. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0528900617" title="Special:BookSources/0528900617">0528900617</a></li> <li><i>Иллюстрированный определитель растений Ленинградской области</i> / Под ред. А. Л. Буданцева, Г. П. Яковлева. Moscow: КМК, 2006. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-87317-260-9" title="Special:BookSources/5-87317-260-9">5-87317-260-9</a></li> <li>Кириллова М.А., Распопов И.М. <i>Озера Ленинградской области</i>. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1971.</li> <li><i>Красная Книга природы Ленинградской области. Том 1. Особо охраняемые природные территории</i>. Отв. ред. Г.А. Носков, М. С. Боч [Red Data Book of Nature of the Leningrad Region. Vol. 1. Protected Areas]. Saint-Petersburg: Акционер и К, 1998. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-87401-072-6" title="Special:BookSources/5-87401-072-6">5-87401-072-6</a></li> <li><i>Красная Книга природы Ленинградской области. Том 2. Растения и грибы</i>. Отв. ред. Г.А. Носков [Red Data Book of Nature of the Leningrad Region. Vol. 2. Plants and Fungi]. Saint-Petersburg: Мир и Семья, 2000. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-94365-001-6" title="Special:BookSources/5-94365-001-6">5-94365-001-6</a></li> <li><i>Красная Книга природы Ленинградской области. Том 3. Животные</i>. Отв. ред. Г.А. Носков [Red Data Book of Nature of the Leningrad Region. Vol. 3. Animals]. Saint-Petersburg: Мир и Семья, 2002. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-94365-021-0" title="Special:BookSources/5-94365-021-0">5-94365-021-0</a></li> <li><i>Леса Ленинградской области: современное состояние и пути их возможного развития</i>. Saint-Petersburg, 1998. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-230-10457-0" title="Special:BookSources/5-230-10457-0">5-230-10457-0</a></li> <li>Мальчевский А. С., Пукинский Ю. Б. <i>Птицы Ленинградской области и сопредельных территорий. История, биология, охрана</i>. Т.1-2. Leningrad: Изд-во ЛГУ, 1983.</li> <li>Наумов Н.А. <i>Флора грибов Ленинградской области. Том 1. Архимицеты и фикомицеты</i> [The Fungus Flora of the Leningrad Region. Vol. 1. Archimycetes, Phycomycetes]. Moscow—Leningrad: Изд-во АН СССР, 1954.</li> <li>Наумов Н.А. <i>Флора грибов Ленинградской области. Том 2</i> [The Fungus Flora of the Leningrad Region. Vol. 2]. Moscow—Leningrad: Наука, 1964.</li> <li>Неелов, А.В. <i>Рыбы</i> [Природа Ленинградской области]. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1987.</li> <li>Покровская Г.В., Бычкова А.Т. <i>Климат Ленинграда и его окрестностей</i>. Leningrad: Гидрометеоиздат, 1967.</li> <li><i>Природа Ленинградской области и ее охрана</i> / Ред. Т.И. Миронова, Э.И. Слепян. - Leningrad: Лениздат, 1983.</li> <li>Пукинский Ю. Б. <i>Птицы</i> [Природа Ленинградской области]. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1988.</li> <li>Свидерская М.Д., Храбрый В.М. <i>Сохраним для потомков: Особо охраняемые природные территории Ленинградской области</i>. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1985.</li> <li>Старобогатов Я.И. <i>Раки, моллюски</i> [Природа Ленинградской области]. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1988. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-289-00125-5" title="Special:BookSources/5-289-00125-5">5-289-00125-5</a></li> <li>Филимонов Р.В., Удалов С.Г. <i>Жуки-усачи Ленинградской области. Атлас-определитель</i>. [Longhorn Beetles of the St. Petersburg Region: An Identification Atlas]. Saint-Petersburg: Петроглиф, 2001. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-902094-05-4" title="Special:BookSources/5-902094-05-4">5-902094-05-4</a></li> <li><i>Флора Ленинградской области</i> / Под ред. Б. К. Шишкина. Вып. 1–4. Leningrad: Изд. ЛГУ, 1955–1965.</li> <li>Хазанович К. К. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.zhukoff.kirishi.ru/book/home.htm">Геологические памятники Ленинградской области</a></i>. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1982.</li> <li>Черепанова Н.П., Пшедецкая Л.И. <i>Грибы</i>. [Природа Ленинградской области]. Leningrad: Лениздат, 1990.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_2">History</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Лапшин В. А. <i>Археологическая карта Ленинградской области. Часть 1: Западные районы</i>. Leningrad, 1990.</li> <li>Лапшин В. А. <i>Археологическая карта Ленинградской области. Часть 2: Восточные и северные районы</i>. Saint-Petersburg: Изд. СПбГУ, 1995. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-87403-052-2" title="Special:BookSources/5-87403-052-2">5-87403-052-2</a></li> <li>Лебедев Г. С. <i>Археологические памятники Ленинградской области</i>. 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title="Murmansk Oblast">Murmansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod_Oblast" title="Nizhny Novgorod Oblast">Nizhny Novgorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novgorod_Oblast" title="Novgorod Oblast">Novgorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novosibirsk_Oblast" title="Novosibirsk Oblast">Novosibirsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omsk_Oblast" title="Omsk Oblast">Omsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orenburg_Oblast" title="Orenburg Oblast">Orenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oryol_Oblast" title="Oryol Oblast">Oryol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penza_Oblast" title="Penza Oblast">Penza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pskov_Oblast" title="Pskov Oblast">Pskov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rostov_Oblast" title="Rostov Oblast">Rostov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryazan_Oblast" title="Ryazan Oblast">Ryazan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakhalin_Oblast" title="Sakhalin Oblast">Sakhalin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samara_Oblast" title="Samara Oblast">Samara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saratov_Oblast" title="Saratov 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href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Donetsk People's Republic">Donetsk</a><sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingushetia" title="Ingushetia">Ingushetia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabardino-Balkaria" title="Kabardino-Balkaria">Kabardino-Balkaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalmykia" title="Kalmykia">Kalmykia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karachay-Cherkessia" title="Karachay-Cherkessia">Karachay-Cherkessia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic" title="Luhansk People's Republic">Luhansk</a><sup>1</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Karelia" title="Republic of Karelia">Karelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khakassia" title="Khakassia">Khakassia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komi_Republic" title="Komi Republic">Komi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mari_El" title="Mari El">Mari El</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mordovia" title="Mordovia">Mordovia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Ossetia%E2%80%93Alania" 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title="Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug">Yamalo-Nenets</a><sup>2</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_cities_of_Russia" title="Federal cities of Russia">Federal cities</a> (3)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sevastopol" title="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a><sup>1</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia#Types" title="Federal subjects of Russia">Autonomous oblast</a> (1)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast" title="Jewish Autonomous Oblast">Jewish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><sup>1</sup>Considered by most of the international community to be part of <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li><sup>2</sup>Administratively subordinated to <a href="/wiki/Tyumen_Oblast" title="Tyumen Oblast">Tyumen Oblast</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li><sup>3</sup>Administratively subordinated to <a href="/wiki/Arkhangelsk_Oblast" title="Arkhangelsk Oblast">Arkhangelsk Oblast</a>.</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div id="Non-constitutional_official_divisions_by_various_institutions"><b>Non-constitutional official divisions by various 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