Svetloye (Leningrad)

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Leningrad
Rajon	Priosersk
Earlier names	Valkeamatka
Village since	1947
Height of the center	80 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 81379
Post Code	188753
License Plate	47
OKATO	41 239 820 003
Geographical location
Coordinates	60 ° 33 ' N , 29 ° 47' E Coordinates: 60 ° 33 '0 " N , 29 ° 47' 10" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Leningrad Oblast

Svetloje ( Russian Светлое ) is a village in Leningrad Oblast .

The place is about 70 kilometers northwest of the center of the city of Saint Petersburg and became known as the site of an astronomical observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences . A monitoring station of the SDCM system is located on site .

Until 1944, the village belonged to the Finnish province of Viipuri and was called Valkeamatka . After the area was annexed to the Soviet Union , it was briefly renamed Bolshaya Gora in 1947 , then Svetlaja, from 1949 in the current form Svetloje. The Russian name ("bright") is based on the Finnish name (about "White Path"). Today Svetloje belongs to the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Krasnoosjornoje, whose administrative seat Krasnoosjornoje is a good 8 km northwest, and with this to the Prioserski district . Its center Priosersk is about 60 km to the north.

Web links

Observatory website