page_title: Roshchino, Leningrad Oblast
section_title: Lintula Larch Forest
hierarchical_section_title: Roshchino, Leningrad Oblast / Lintula Larch Forest
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Городской посёлок Рощино, парковая улица.
context_page_description: Roshchino, Raivola before 1948, is an urban locality in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, and a station on the Saint Petersburg-Vyborg railroad. It is situated on the Karelian Isthmus 60 kilometers northwest of St. Petersburg, approximately halfway to Vyborg. Population: 13,439; 9,393; 8,436.
  In the wooded areas surrounding Roshchino there are multiple marshes and small lakes. Lintula larch forest is located some 3 kilometers to the west from the railroad station.
context_section_description: The Lintula Larch Forest (Russian: Корабельная роща, Korabelnaya roshcha, lit. shipbuilding timber grove, or Линдуловская лиственничная роща; Finnish: Lehtikuusimetsä) had a major impact on the cultivation of larch throughout the world and is considered one of the most important cultivated forests in northern Europe. It was established by order of Peter the Great to supply the Russian Navy with shipbuilding timber. Ferdinand Gabriel Fockel, a German forest expert, established the oldest stands in 1738–1750 with seedlings of European Larch (Larix decidua) from the province of Arkhangelsk. Since then the area of the forest has expanded and currently the total area of larch is 55.9 ha (23.5 ha of the 'old stands' established before 1851 still remain).
caption: A street in Roshchino
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