Yelagin Island
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Yelagin Island (Russian: Елагин остров) is a park island at the mouth of the Neva River which is part of St. Petersburg, Russia. Yelagin Island is home to the Yelagin Palace but has a few other buildings as well. A former suburban estate of 18 century Russian nobles and later of a dowager Empress Maria, widow of Paul I of Russia, it has been serving since after the revolutions of 1917 as a city public park, officially Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Sergey Kirov, the famous Bolshevik city leader of early 1930s who supervised development of the city.
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Primorskiy Avenue, Saint Petersburg Novaya Derevnya (округ Ланское)
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N 59.979444444444 ° | E 30.260277777778 ° |
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памятник природы «Елагин остров»
Primorskiy Avenue
197183 Saint Petersburg, Novaya Derevnya (округ Ланское)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
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