Saint Petersburg: Nature
Places and attractions in the Nature category
Categories
- Museum
- Bridge
- Church
- Palace
- History museum
- Universities and schools
- Baroque architecture
- Theater
- Concerts and shows
- Park
- Historical place
- Memorial
- Specialty museum
- Street
- Art museum
- Cemetery
- Art Nouveau architecture
- Monuments and statues
- Architecture
- Canal
- Military museum
- Unesco
- Shopping
- Empire architecture
- Square
- Vasily Stasov
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Island
- Vernacular architecture
- Sacred and religious sites
- Temple
- Auguste de Montferrand
- Concert hall
- Arenas and stadiums
- Forts and castles
- Andrei Shtakenschneider
- Modern art museum
- Science museum
- Gothic Revival architecture
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Monastery
- Opera
- Locality
- Library
- Natural attraction
- Nature
- Neighbourhood
Duderhof Heights
Duderhof Heights or Duderhof Hills is a small highland area in the southwestern part of Saint Petersburg. The nearest railway station, Mozhayskaya of the Ligovo-Krasnoye Selo-Gatchina railroad, is situated immediately to the west of the hills.
Lakhtinsky Razliv
Lake Lakhta is a lake in St. Petersburg's Primorsky District connected to the Neva Bay of the Baltic Sea by the 500-meter-long Bobylka River. The Kamenka, Glukharka and Yuntolovka rivers empty into the lake. Its area is 1.76 km², with the maximum depth of 8.3 meters. The lakeside village of Lakhta takes its name from the lake.
Pulkovo Heights
Pulkovo Heights is a chain of hills located to the south of Saint Petersburg. They run to the south-west in the direction of the Izhora Plateau and have an altitude of up to 73 meters. In Neolithic times Pulkovo heights were Littorina Sea coast. Its bottom is a modern Neva Lowland with stretching on her St. Petersburg.
Vorona gora
Raven Mountain is a hill 175 m above sea level, located in the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg, near where the Dudergof railway platform is located.