Rakhya
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Rakhya (Rahja, ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Vsevolozhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus northeast of Saint Petersburg. Municipally it is incorporated as Rakhyinskoye Urban Settlement, one of the eight urban settlements in the district. Population:
Key facts
- Russian urban type settlement.en_name
- Rakhya
- Russian urban type settlement.ru_name
- Рахья
- Russian urban type settlement.map_label_position
- left
- Russian urban type settlement.image_flag
- Flag Rakhya (Leningrad oblast).svg
- Russian urban type settlement.federal_subject
- Leningrad Oblast
- Russian urban type settlement.adm_district_jur
- Vsevolozhsky District
- Russian urban type settlement.inhabloc_cat
- Urban-type settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.mun_district_jur
- Vsevolozhsky Municipal District
- Russian urban type settlement.urban_settlement_jur
- Rakhyinskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.mun_admctr_of
- Rakhyinskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.pop_2010census
- 3188
- Russian urban type settlement.website
- http://www.rakhya.ru/
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 3773
- Area
- 2.2
- Image
- Рахья 01.jpg
- Dialing code
- 8137066
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- postal code
- 188671
- Commons category
- Rakhya
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Rakhya (Rahja, ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Vsevolozhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus northeast of Saint Petersburg. Municipally it is incorporated as Rakhyinskoye Urban Settlement, one of the eight urban settlements in the district. Population:
==History== In the end of the 19th century, Pavel Korf bought lands which currently belong to the settlement, for peat production. The closest village was Irinovka. In 1892, the first narrow-gauge railroad in Russia was constructed to transport peat. Torfyanaya railway station was open in the current area of the settlement (the name Torfyanaya originates from Russian torf, for peat). The settlement around the station for a long time did not have any name and was known as the Settlement No. 1. In 1911, the production stopped, and in 1913 Korf died. The station was located in Shlisselburgsky Uyezd of Saint Petersburg Governorate (since 1913, Petrograd Governorate).
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