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Yelagin Island (Russian: Елагин остров) is a park island at the mouth of the Neva River which is part of St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Yelagin Island
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Yelagin Island (Russian: Елагин остров) is a park island at the mouth of the Neva River which is part of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Yelagin Island is home to the Yelagin Palace but has a few other buildings as well. A former suburban estate of 18th-century Russian nobles and later of Empress Maria, widow of Paul I of Russia, since the Russian Revolution of 1917 it has served as a city public park, officially Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Sergey Kirov, the famous Bolshevik city leader of the early 1930s who supervised the development of the city.
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