East Leningrad Oblast Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About East Leningrad Oblast
What is now the eastern part of Leningrad Oblast was an economically thriving region up to about 15th century, but it then declined steadily, due to changes in water and later overland trade routes, thus leaving mementos of olden days along Volhov and Tihvinka rivers and some along Onega lake. Peter the Great tried to make use of this place, building channels, that allowed ships to bypass Ladoga lake to Neva (passing through Ladoga lake was - and is - often unsafe due to stormy weather), and founding New Ladoga to settle shipyards there. The Soviet period made use of the region by industrializing it, settling large and ecologically unsafe plants in Kirishi, Volhov, Syas'stroy and Pikalevo, but it failed to stanch the area's decline. Today the region has a distinct feeling of being too remo
East Leningrad Oblast Travel Guide Sections
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