Siversky
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Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...
) in Gatchinsky District
Gatchinsky District
Gatchinsky District is an administrative and municipal district of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Gatchina . District's population: Area: ....
of Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It was established on August 1, 1927, although it was not until 1946 that the oblast's borders had been mostly settled in their present position...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located on the bank of the Oredezh River
Oredezh River
Oredezh River is a river in the south-western part of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, a right tributary of Luga River. A cascade of hydroelectric plants was constructed on the upper course of the river in 1948....
. Population:
The Siverskaya railway station is located on the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway
Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway
The Saint Petersburg – Warsaw Railway, Russian "Санкт-Петербурго-Варшавская железная дорога" is a long railway, built in the 19th century by the Russian Empire to connect Russia with Central Europe. At the time the entire railway was within Russia, as Warsaw was under a Russian partition of Poland...
, receiving regional
Regional rail
Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city center, and the middle to outer suburbs beyond 15km and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis...
trains from the Baltic Rail Terminal
Baltic Rail Terminal
Baltic Rail Terminal in Saint Petersburg is one of the busiest railway stations in Russia by volume of suburban traffic.The station was modelled by architect Alexander Krakau after Gare de l'Est in Paris. Construction started in 1854...
of Saint Petersburg.
Urban-type settlement status was granted to it in 1938.
According to locals, Siversky is one of the only places in the world where the banks of the Oredezh River
Oredezh River
Oredezh River is a river in the south-western part of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, a right tributary of Luga River. A cascade of hydroelectric plants was constructed on the upper course of the river in 1948....
are lined with red sand, suggesting an iron presence in the river or surrounding soil.
The nearby Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate
Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate
The Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate is a museum and park near Siverskaya, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Oblast, that commemorates the most famous owner of the estate, Vladimir Nabokov; the Batovo and Vyra estates, also immortalized by Nabokov, are nearby. As Nabokov spent part of his youth at Vyra,...
commemorates Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
who spend his summers in the area during his youth.