page_title: Priozersky District
section_title: Culture and recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Priozersky District / Culture and recreation
caption_attribution_description: Русский: остров Коневец, Святая гора, скит во имя Казанской иконы Божией Матери. English: Konevets Island
context_page_description: Priozersky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and borders with Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia in the north, Vsevolozhsky District in the south, and Vyborgsky District in the west. In the east, the district is bounded by Lake Ladoga. The area of the district is 3,597.5 square kilometers. Its administrative center is the town of Priozersk. Population: 43,260; 42,859; 40,231.
context_section_description: Some remains of the pre-1917 Russian culture, including the Korela Fortress in Priozersk and the Konevsky Monastery at Konevets Island, survive. Much of the remnants of the Finnish presence was destroyed.  The district is the most popular with tourists part of Karelian Isthmus.
  The district contains 64 cultural heritage monuments of federal significance (33 of which are in Priozersk) and additionally 70 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance. The great majority of these monuments belong to the Korela fortress and the Konevets Island.
caption: Kazan Skete of the Konevsky Monastery
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