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    Svirstroy (Russian: Свирьстрой) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Lodeynopolsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the...
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    as well as urban-type settlements Voznesenye, Nikolsky, Vazhiny, and Svirstroy are located at the banks of the Svir. After Peter the Great connected...
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    hydroelectric station on the Svir River located in the urban-type settlement of Svirstroy, Leningrad Oblast, in northwestern Russia. It was open on December 19...
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  • 8734000 (Lesogorsk Hydroelectric Station) 118 Operational Lower Svir Svirstroy 60°48′25″N 33°42′08″E / 60.8069204°N 33.7021065°E / 60.8069204; 33...
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    The Finns pressed on and captured the railroad bridge over the Svir at Svirstroy on September 13. By September 22 the Finnish VI Corps had already advanced...
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  • (Лодейнопольский) district 41 227 41 627 Lodeynoye Pole (Лодейное Поле) town* Svirstroy (Свирьстрой) 8 Lomonosovsky (Ломоносовский) district 41 230 41 630 Bolshaya...
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    Hydroelectric Station in Volkhov and the Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station in Svirstroy. Genrikh Graftio graduated from the Imperial Novorossiya University in...
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    Hydroelectric Station and the Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station, located in Svirstroy, perform coordination and, in particular, jointly regulate the water level...
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    of Pirkinichi and Semenovschinu. The division advanced to the north to Svirstroy and prevented the Finnish from blowing up a dam. On 15 July 1944, the...
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    was established, with the headquarters in the settlement of Svirstroy. In 1931, Svirstroy was granted urban-type settlement status. Between September...
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