Latest News About Kirishsky District

Updated 2026-05-05 19:06

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Kirishsky District - Wikiwand

Kirishsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central southern ...

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Kirishi - Wikiwand

Kirishi is a town and the administrative center of Kirishsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volkhov River, 115 kilometer...

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Kirishi and Kirishsky District of Leningrad Region | Presidential Library

Nowadays the town of Kirishi is the center of the fuel and energy industry of the north-west of Russia. Although the town was founded in the early 1960s, people have inhabited this territory far longer than that. The village of Kirishi was first mentioned in census books of 1693. A local legend has it that it was named after Kirsha – a settler from Veliky Novgorod.

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Kirishsky municipal district

Kirishsky municipal district is located in the southern part of Leningrad region in the basin of the Volkhov River and its tributary Pchevzha. It is bordered by Tosnensky, Kirovsky, Volkhovsky and Tikhvinsky municipal districts and by Novgorod region in the south. Kirishsky municipal district includes territories of six municipal units: Kirishskoye and Budogoschskoye urban settlements, Glazhevskoye, Kusinskoye, Pchevzhinskoye and Pchevskoye rural settlements. Distance to Saint Petersburg: 116...

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