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Kamenka, area

Categories / City Topography/Historical Geography/Historical Districts, Localities, Tracts, Municipal Establishments

KAMENKA (Bolshaya Kamenka, until 1930 - Koloniya Kamenka "Kamenka Colony"), the former village in the north-west of St. Petersburg, north of Yuntolovskaya Forest Estate, and north-west of the region of large-scale residential building of Dolgoe Lake. It was named after the Kamenka River. Since 1961, it was included within the city limits; since the middle of the 1990s, it has been built up with high-rise residential houses. The name of Doroga v Kamenku Street originates from this area.

Е. А. Bondarchuk.

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road to Kamenka/Pargolovo, village