Sestroretsk with its environs. Sestroretsk Seaside Railway

Lakhta

Olgino

Razdelnaia

Lisii Nos

Gorskaia

Alexandrovskii Settlement

Tarkhovka

Razliv

Sestroretsk

Ermolovskaia

Kurort

Shkolnaia

Duny

Duny

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.

On the 30th of the past November a church in the name of Christ the Savior was consecrated near the final station of the Primorskaya S.-Petersburg-Sestroretskaya railroad - “Dyuny”, at the very border of the S.-Petersburg province with Finland. The northern coast of the Gulf of Finland abounds with dunes, i.e. peculiarly shaped sand hills of considerable size, formed under the influence of constant winds blowing in a certain direction - from the sea. <...> This upland, dry, sandy area, bordered by the Sestra River, is one of the healthiest and most picturesque neighborhoods of St. Petersburg and for the last decade has attracted many St. Petersburg residents seeking to restore their own or their children's disturbed health. <...> The new church is wooden, built in the form of a ship, on a solid stone foundation of Finnish granite, with an iron roof. The temple is beautifully placed at the edge of a pine forest, on a high hill, one open side of which terraces down to the border river Sestra. The holy crosses of cut glass crowning the heads of the temple shine like bright guiding stars in the blue sky.

Additions to the Church Bulletins published under the Holy Governing Synod : weekly edition. 1904. № 50. P. 2058‑2060.

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