Olgino, settlement

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OLGINO, a summer cottage village 15 kilometres northwest of Saint Petersburg, on the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland, in the vicinity of a cognominal railway platform. It neighbours Lisy Nos and Severo-Primorsky forest park on the west, and Lake Lakhta on the east. In the first half of the 18th century, the territory was part of the Verpelev Palace Estate, which was granted to Count G. G. Orlov in the second half of the 18th century, and later came into the possession of counts Stenbock-Fermor. In the early 20th century, a summer cottage village sprang up, which was named Olgino in 1905 (after count A.V. Stenbock-Fermor's wife Olga). About 150 winter cottages, many of which represent outstanding "cottage" architecture, were built in the 1910s, including ones at 16 Khvoynaya Street (architect S. F. Woldt), 113 Lakhtinsky Avenue (architect S. O. Ovsyannikov), 19-21 Lesnaya Street (architect А. P. Vaitens, awarded the Grand Prix at the Dresden Industrial Exhibition in 1905), 31 Kolodeznaya Street (architect L.P. Shishko), and a number of others. In 1963, Olgino was incorporated into the city's boundaries. There is a cognominal hotel in the area (1980, architects V. S. Maslov, V. N. Berezkina, М. Y. Svirin, V. N. Skorokhodov).

References: Богданов И. А. Лахта - Ольгино. СПб., 1999. I. А. Bogdanov. Berezkina Valentina Nikolaevna
Maslov Vladimir Semenovich
Orlov Grigory Grigorievich, Count
Ovsyannikov Sergey Osipovich (Iosifovich)
Shishko Lev Petrovich
Skorokhodov V.N.
Stenbock-Fermor A.V., Count
Svirin M.U.
the Stenbock-Fermors
Vaitens Andrey Petrovich
Woldt S.F.
Khvoinaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Kolodeznaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 31
Lakhtinsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 113
Lesnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 19
Lesnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 21
Богданов И. А. Лахта - Ольгино - Лисий Нос. СПб., 2002