page_title: Shimsky District
section_title: Culture and recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Shimsky District / Culture and recreation
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Путевой дворец в деревне Коростынь Шимского района Новгородской областиEnglish: The Putevoi dvorets (road palace) in Korostyn village. Shimsky district, Novgorod oblast, Russia
context_page_description: Shimsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast and borders with Batetsky District in the north, Novgorodsky District in the northeast, Starorussky District in the southeast, Volotovsky District in the south, Soletsky District in the southwest, Strugo-Krasnensky and Plyussky Districts, both of Pskov Oblast, in the west, and with Luzhsky District of Leningrad Oblast in the northwest. The area of the district is 1,836 square kilometers. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Shimsk. Population: 11,750; 13,312; 13,477. The population of Shimsk accounts for 33.1% of the district's total population.
context_section_description: The district contains nine cultural heritage monuments of federal significance and additionally ninety-nine objects (one of them in Shimsk) classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance. The federal monuments are the complex of the palace in the village of Korostyn built by architect Vasily Stasov, the Assumption Church, also in Korostyn, and an archeological site.
caption: Korostyn Palace
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