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Sestroretsk with its environs. Sestroretsk Seaside Railway

Alexandrovskii Settlement

The private company owns ... a small broad gauge Peterburg-Sestroretskaya or Primorskaya railway, built in 1894-1895. This road has a lively traffic as between St. Petersburg and Sestroretsk, where a resort is being organized, and between St. Petersburg and Lisii Nos, from where there is a proper steamship service to Kronstadt.

Russia : a complete geographical description of our fatherland : a desk and travel book for Russian people. Vol. 3. Ozernaya oblast / ed. by V. P. Semyonov. P. Semyonov. St. Petersburg, 1900. P. 229.

Dacha life is developing every year in parallel with the growth of the capital; new dacha settlements are opening, the number of buildings in areas with an established dacha character is increasing ...

Review of the St. Petersburg Province for 1909. S.-Petersburg, 1910. P. 18.

 

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