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Svetogorsk is a border town in the north-west of
the Leningrad region near the Finnish Imatra. A remote border zone
that all sane people pass through in transit, although in Russia it
is the third city after Vyborg and Sortavala with Finnish heritage
and sometimes even a Finnish face, located also on the picturesque
Vuoksa with its cliffs, pine forests and cascades of hydroelectric
power plants.
Svetogorsk stands on the left bank of the
Vuoksa at the place where it crosses the border of Finland and
Russia. Until the beginning of the XX century, the places here were
wild, almost uninhabited, but then this "outback" of the Karelian
Isthmus began to develop, and even in two directions at once. Next
to a beautiful waterfall, nine kilometers above the current
Svetogorsk, a resort popular with the St. Petersburg public arose —
now Finnish Imatra, and a wood pulp factory was built on the next
such waterfall, later a cardboard and paper mill. The village
accompanying it was named Enso (from the Finnish "firstborn") and
treated accordingly: the best Finnish architects were engaged in the
design, who managed to build at least a dozen large stone buildings
here. However, what surrounds these buildings now cannot be called
anything but squalid and ugly.
After the Winter War of 1939,
Enso fell to the Soviet Union. It was an important industrial
center, which Finland did not want to lose, but the Soviet side took
it for itself in an ultimatum, and the border was drawn just outside
the city. The waterfall and the resort located to the west of the
USSR were not at all interested, the Finns founded Imatra there in
1948. After the Great Patriotic War, the border passed along the
same line, but the Finns were called to restore the plant, and in
general, the connection of Svetogorsk (and this name is "giving
light", according to the power plant located here — was assigned to
Enso in 1949 in the wake of the destruction of Finnish toponyms)
with Finland was never interrupted: for example, in the 1970s The
Finns built a new pulp and paper mill in the city, and with the
opening of the border they rushed to Svetogorsk for shopping and
entertainment.
In general, Svetogorsk was and remains a
Finnish-oriented city, since it is almost more difficult to come
here from Russia than to leave here for Finland. The city was part
of the border zone, and still remains in it, although with the
opening of the international border crossing in the early 2000s, a
"loophole" appeared to visit Svetogorsk under the pretext of
crossing the border. The border location gave Svetogorsk a number of
advantages: several hotels and cafes appeared, shops and private
traders began to earn money from Finnish tourists, but otherwise the
city remained no less a hole than the working settlements in the
east of the Leningrad region. A number of sensational reports in the
press and blogosphere were devoted to his comparison with Imatra
(derogatory and crushing). The ecology also leaves much to be
desired, since the Central Bank is working hard in the city, which,
however, produces such important products as Svetocopy paper and
Zewa paper towels.
Like any city with large-scale production,
Svetogorsk has sparse buildings and a large industrial zone
stretching along the Vuoksa to the west of residential areas.
Finnish architects built the city in the shape of a bird's wing,
which is still visible on the map (Lesnaya and Sportivnaya Streets),
and the historical buildings located along Pobedy Street serve as
"feathers" in it. Finnish heritage, spacious Vuoksa, mountains of
sawdust and the proximity of the border give the city a certain
charm, although it is difficult to call Svetogorsk charming, and the
smell from the Central Bank sometimes becomes unbearable. If your
local history interest still prompted you to come here, take a look
at the village of Lesogorsky - in fact, the far district of
Svetogorsk, where something has also been preserved. It can easily
take 4-5 hours to inspect all the objects listed in this guide,
mainly due to their inconvenient location.
There are no buildings in Svetogorsk older than the
beginning of the 20th century, so 40-50 years ago the entire city center
was an architectural reserve built up between the Revolution and World
War II in the same style of Finnish functionalism. Residential
buildings, including the original wooden cottages, have not been
preserved, which is why the building has lost its integrity, and now
only separate, rather modest pre-war buildings stand along Victory
Street. You will have to walk for the masterpieces — either through the
railway crossing deep into the industrial zone to Vuoksa, or back along
Pobedy Street in the direction of Kamennogorsk and Vyborg.
1
Store building, Pobedy str., 25 (corner of Pogranichnaya str.). Finnish
style as it is: a rectangular box with wide window openings on the
ground floor and narrow single-leaf windows on the second and third.
Once there was a store here, now there is something departmental with an
increased concentration of border guards, and indeed almost all Finnish
buildings changed their profile after the war: across the street (22
Pobedy Street) the city administration at the bank site, and a little
further towards the border there is a bus station in the former post
office building. Using these examples, it is easy to see how similar and
at the same time different the "box" buildings are: the typical project
was just a rectangle, but as soon as the master was connected (and the
post-bus station was designed by the leading Finnish architect Vyane
Vyahakallio), compositions of different volumes, asymmetrical windows
and other tricks appeared.
2 Pharmacy building, 33 Pobedy
Street. The most cozy building of the center is built of dark red brick,
softening strict geometric shapes, and the niches around the windows
make the appearance more friendly. Once the niches reached all the way
to the ground, connecting the windows of the first and second floors in
vertical "stripes": to see this, inspect the building from the side or
from the courtyard. The facade was badly damaged in Soviet times,
turning the windows of the first floor into wide storefronts and thereby
violating the harmony of the building.
3 The ensemble of the
pulp and paper mill, Zavodskaya str. 15-19. In 1927, the companies that
managed the Svetogorsk plants merged into the Enso Gutzeit corporation,
which needed new buildings that formed a good ensemble halfway from
Pobedy Street to the hydroelectric power station. The factory office
(17) is another three-storey "box", but with a fancy arched decor and a
pretty portal. On the right (d. 19) is a laconic 1927 fire station
designed by Uno Ulberg, the author of many buildings in Vyborg and
Sortavala, but the club hotel (d. 15) it was built a little later, in
1936, and already according to the Vyakhyakallio project. From the
outside, the two-storey clubhouse seems very harsh and rude, but its
shape is softened by a semicircular one-storey extension. The most
interesting thing becomes visible only up close — this is a carved
portal by the Finnish sculptor Johan Finne. Unfortunately, it is not
very convenient to consider the mythological plots depicted in stone,
since the building stands behind a fence on the territory of the
combine.
4 Hospital building, Pushkinskaya str. 1 (turn left
after the railway crossing). The old hospital building next to the
industrial zone does not talk about industrial accidents — it's just
that the factory used to be smaller, and residential buildings came
close to it, which, by the way, later became the reason for their
demolition. The hospital was designed by Uno Ulberg, who implemented a
rather unusual mixture of functionalism and neoclassicism here: straight
lines, round windows and at the same time arches with columns. Perhaps
the fact is that the building was built in two stages — in 1927 and
1934.
5 Villa on the banks of the Vuoksa, 27 Lev Kantorovich
str. The representative house of the plant's directorate was built in
1936 according to the project of the same Vyakhakallio. Here the
architect turned around with might and main: dark red brick,
asymmetrical shapes, casually scattered windows on the walls (wide - to
Vuoksa, narrow — to the courtyard) and a strict but very stylish porch,
the roof above which is supported by a single pylon. It is not very easy
to consider all this because of the trees that surround the villa
closely. The entrance to the territory is free, now there seems to be a
hostel here, and before it there was a kindergarten and a Central bank
dispensary. Finnish fireplaces have been preserved inside, as well as
murals on the ceiling of the lobby, made by Finnish designer Bruno
Tuukkanen.
6 HPP No. 11, at the end of Zavodskaya Street. The
waterfall on Vuoksa was turned into a hydroelectric power station back
in the 19th century, becoming the main source of energy for the local
factories. The second hydroelectric power plant was launched in the
mid-1930s downstream in Lesogorsky, which made it possible to expand and
modernize the first, which the Finns slowly did until the war, after
which they transferred the unfinished power plant to the Soviet Union.
It was only launched in its entirety in 1947. The architecture here is
still quite Finnish; the most interesting building on the left is the
pumping station, which is not inferior to the best examples of the
Vyborg promarch of the same period.
7 School building, 61 Pobedy
Street. Monumental school buildings of the Finnish period are one of the
characteristic features of the Karelian Isthmus. The school, built in
1938 on the eastern outskirts of the city, was already the second in
Enso. The first one was built in 1927 according to the project of Uno
Ulberg near the old hospital, at the end of Pushkinskaya Street. That
building has been preserved, but has not been used as a school for a
long time and now stands on the territory of the factory, but the second
school is still working. The building was designed by Hjalmari Lankinen,
the author of several Vyborg buildings and many wonderful photographs of
pre-war Finnish Karelia. Hidden behind the trees, a three-storey house
of the Finnish period (63 Pobedy Street), formerly a boarding school,
also most likely belongs to his authorship.
8 The bell tower of
the unfinished church, Pobedy St. (east of the school). The least
preserved, but still very functional building of the Finnish time. A
large church began to be built in Enso in 1939 according to the project
of Vyane Vyakhakallio, but by the beginning of the war only the bell
tower had been erected, and remained a gloomy skeleton, which from afar
very much resembles the ruins of a military base. In Soviet times, a
repeater was installed at the top, which gave the building at least some
completeness.
9 The area of wooden cottages of the Finnish time,
behind Leo Tolstoy street. Most of the old Enso was destroyed during or
shortly after the war. Wooden Finnish houses have been preserved only on
the northern outskirts of the city, where they are still surrounded by
fences with private plots, but the further they go, the more they give
way to Russian "new buildings" with an abundance of bright colors and
ubiquitous siding.
Unlike neighboring Svetlogorsk, the village of
Lesogorsky (fin. Jääski) has been known almost since the XIV century,
but it has never been a city and therefore has retained a pleasant
patriarchy — houses are no higher than two floors, mostly wooden, and
there is a Vuoksa somewhere nearby. Inquisitive local historians will
find several historical buildings in the village itself, although it
will take a lot of time, since these buildings are located far from each
other. Lesogorsky is not included in the five-kilometer border zone, so
entry here is open to everyone, at least with a Russian passport.
10 The ensemble of the railway station. The laconic wooden railway
station and the surrounding office buildings are the only example of a
Finnish—era station on the territory of the Karelian Isthmus that has
survived to this day entirely and without significant changes. Similar
stations and sheds once decorated the line between Vyborg and
Kamennogorsk, but they were severely damaged, and sometimes completely
destroyed by the expansion of the line and its electrification. The
station was built in 1892 according to the project of Knut Nylander, the
chief architect of the Finnish railways.
11 Bank building,
Leningradskaya str. 10. A two—storey cubic building with an asymmetrical
arrangement of windows is an excellent example of the Finnish style of
the 1930s.
12 Ruins of a flour mill (on the edge of the village,
northwest of the station). It is a rare case when an industrial building
of the Finnish period can be viewed from the inside. It happened,
however, not from a good life: the mill built in the 1930s was closed
after the collapse of the Soviet Union and quickly fell into disrepair.
The dilapidated walls exposed the upward—expanding support columns, a
characteristic structural element of buildings in the style of Finnish
functionalism. Fragments of the same columns are lying around on the
ground. It is better to approach the mill from the side of Sovetov
Street and Generatornaya Street; the railway station is very close, but
the way to it is blocked by weeds.
13 Lesogorskaya HPP (HPP No.
10), at the end of Generatornaya Street (4 km from the village). Built
in 1934-37, the power plant belongs to the good monuments of pre-war
industrial architecture, but, unfortunately, it is reliably hidden from
prying eyes. If you don't have a boat or wings, there is only one way to
see the hydroelectric power plant — by turning left from Generatornaya
Street into the forest and going ashore downstream. On the other side of
the road there will be impressive rocks hidden by the forest, the
so—called Death Rocks, where, according to legend, many Finnish soldiers
died - there really are caves or catacombs in the rocks, where soldiers
could hold the defense and hide.
14 The Rock of Love (half a
kilometer upstream from the hydroelectric power station). The view from
a small cliff above the Vuoksa flood is hardly comparable to the beauty
of the Ladoga skerries, although it's still just a river, not the whole
Ladoga. According to legend, lovers rushed from this cliff — the son of
Wolf, the owner of the homestead of the same name, and a commoner girl
from a working-class family — when the young man's parents forbade them
to be together. This is the most picturesque point in the vicinity of
Svetogorsk, but there is no well-trodden and marked road to it on the
map: you need to look for barely noticeable paths along the shore from
the side of the hydroelectric power station or break from the highway
through the forest just by azimuth.
15 Wolf's estate (1 km from
the hydroelectric power station, 5 km from the village). A rare example
of a preserved Finnish manor house. It is known by many names —
Ruusyavi, Belaya Dacha, Ahola — but most often as the house of Consul
Wolf, who commissioned the project to architect Uno Ulberg. It was the
beginning of the 1920s, the era of functionalism was just beginning, so
the features of Art Nouveau are still visible in the appearance of the
building; the porch facing the Vuoksa looks especially good from small
forms. The old stoves and other finishing elements should have been
preserved inside, which it seems that you can see if you settle here —
either a hotel or a camp site works in the manor house. Strict signs
prohibiting strict signs hang at the entrance to the territory, but in
fact the gates are open and anyone can enter. In the meadow in front of
the estate, do not miss a large red brick building — a cowshed or a barn
of an extremely functionalist type.
There are absolutely no places for leisure in
Svetogorsk: the cinema has been closed, and the museum is housed in a
school building and is inaccessible to outsiders, since the city has not
allocated it its own premises. In summer, you can look for a place to
relax on the banks of the Vuoksa — it is better in the area of
Lesogorsky and the Wolf estate, since the Central Bank is actively
smoking closer to Svetogorsk.
1 House of Culture, 37 Pobedy
Street. DK is interesting as the only monument of Stalinist architecture
in the whole of Svetogorsk — however, this is a typical post-war project
found in a dozen other cities of Russia and CIS countries. The staff of
the House of culture are actively engaged in educational work, including
on the Internet, but they will not offer you anything except local
amateur performances here.
Pyaterochka supermarket, Kirova str., 1 (next to the hotel). 8:00 – 22:00.
Svetogorsk is part of a five-kilometer border zone,
where everyone needs a pass, including citizens of the Russian
Federation. The village of Lesogorsky is located a little further from
the border and is not included in the five-kilometer zone. The border
checkpoint with mandatory document verification is located on the
western outskirts of Lesogorsky at the exit towards Svetogorsk.
If you do not have a pass, you can visit Svetogorsk under the guise of
transit to Finland, however, at the post in Lesogorsky they will most
likely require you to show a visa, and then you do not need to meet with
border guards — otherwise you may be fined. Plainclothes officers are
active at the intersection of Pogranichnaya Street and Pobedy Street,
next to the building of the border guard service (2 Pogranichnaya
Street), and check the documents of all non-native people. Visiting the
city in transit mode (including a snack in a cafe or even an overnight
stay in a hotel) will most likely not cause problems, but sightseeing
may be interrupted by communication with security authorities.
The railway line from Kamennogorsk is used only for freight traffic. The
only transport to Svetogorsk are buses No. 810 from St. Petersburg from
the 1st (Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya) Devyatkino line (4 times a day, via
Vyborg) and Vyborg buses No. 126, running somewhat more often (on
average every 2-3 hours). There are buses to Kamennogorsk too, but only
a few times a day.
There is no transport towards Finland. Imatra
is so close that it could be reached on foot, but the local checkpoint
is closed to pedestrians, although it is allowed to cross the border by
bicycle. The possibility of getting into cars going to the border has
not yet been studied, and indeed few independent travelers have ever
thought of going to Finland through Svetogorsk. Shopping minibuses from
St. Petersburg to Imatra pass through the city, but they are not
designed to drop off or pick up someone here.
Bus station,
Vokzalnaya str., 1. The terminal of buses from Vyborg and St.
Petersburg, as well as suburban ones. There is no infrastructure, except
for the cafe-bistro across the street. The building is tightly closed,
although it is worth looking at it from the outside: it is a monument to
Finnish functionalism of the 1930s.
By car along the Svetogorsky
highway from Vyborg (55 km) — there is good coverage all the way, but
the highway itself is very winding, and road works to straighten it only
slow down the already slow movement. A well-worn local road leads to
Kamennogorsk (25 km).
2 Svetogorsk/Imatra border
crossing. Around the clock. Only for cars and cyclists, and cyclists
ride without waiting in line. The center of Imatra is 9 km away.
The sights of Svetogorsk are scattered over a large
area, and there is virtually no public transport in the city, except for
bus No. 15, which runs about 5 times a day: it goes towards the
hydroelectric power station and along Lesnaya Street in the city. Buses
from Vyborg and Kamennogorsk make several intermediate stops on the way
to the bus station.
Taxi: +7 (921) 936-30-00.
For a city that is not even a regional center,
Svetogorsk has a good choice of catering: The flow of people traveling
to or from Finland is affected.
1 Grand cafe "Kamin", Pobedy
Street, 31. 9:00 – 24:00. A cozy cafe in the building of the Finnish
time implements the principle of the buffet, unusual for Russia: in the
afternoon you pay 250 rubles and pick up soup, salad and the second
yourself, although you can just have a snack with local pies. By the
evening, the same dinner meal remains, apparently, until it is over or
the banquet has begun. Good reviews.
2 Cafe "Bistro", at the end of
Pobedy Street (opposite the bus station, in front of the border).
Mon–Sat 10:00 – 18:00. Hot: about 150 rubles. The pots of flowers
hanging above the entrance and a running line with the Finnish
inscription Kahvi look very European, although inside there is just an
ordinary dining room with a distribution. The visitors are satisfied.
3 Cafe "White Nights", Kirova str., 13a. The cafe seems to have been
created for the rapid adaptation of Finnish tourists to Russian reality:
paid discos in the evenings and a poorly closed toilet door.
4
Petrovsky Restaurant, 34a Krasnoarmeyskaya str. Wed–Fri 12:00 – 24:00,
Sat 14:00 – 4:00, Sun 14:00 – 24:00. Hot: from 400 rubles. Mostly good
reviews, but keep in mind that the restaurant is accompanied by a
karaoke console, and on weekends it smoothly turns into a nightclub.
Business lunch in the afternoon on weekdays.
5 Restaurant "Arugula"
, Lesnaya str. 8. Mon–Fri 11:00 – 22:00, Sat–Sun 12:00 – 1:00. Hot:
250-400 rubles. A nice restaurant with a focus on pizza and pasta,
although borscht, Kiev cutlet and other classics of the Russian menu are
also available. The style is almost metropolitan — it feels like a
designer has worked on the interior, but the food, according to
visitors, is completely provincial.
Svetogorsk Hotel, Sportivnaya str., 1. ☎ +7 (81378)
4-35-42. An "overseas" hotel on the very Russian border: according to
rumors, the building was designed by Finns, so it is not surprising that
it strongly resembles pre-war functionalism and compares favorably with
the ugly Soviet architecture that filled Svetogorsk after the war. Even
the summer veranda with umbrellas is subtly reminiscent of Finland. You
can't say the same about the rooms — the rooms are small and austere,
but at least with amenities; the guests are generally satisfied. Wi-Fi
is only available on the ground floor in the lobby.
Recreation
center "Lesogorskaya Manor" (on the territory of the Wolf
estate). Double room: 1200 RUB (without amenities), 1900 rub (with
amenities). The hotel in the old Finnish manor is more like a camp site
or hostel: cramped rooms, mostly without amenities and certainly without
any signs of history or charm. There is no Wi-Fi, and mobile
communication is also caught with some difficulty. On the other hand,
those who wish are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Three rivers flow through Svetogorsk: Vuoksa, Unterniska and Kivioya
(Finnish Kivioja - Stone Stream, but the locals call it Dirty Stream).
Previously, in Unternisk, the inhabitants of the city were engaged in
fishing and swimming in the dams made. Baths on the river were arranged
by the Finns near the current Sportivnaya Street. Boards were thrown
across the river, from which women rinsed their clothes (we are talking
about crossing the river near Kirov Street).
Included in the
border zone.
Grand Duchy of Finland
Enso was founded in the county of Jaaski,
Vyborg province in 1887, when Baron Adi Standersköld (1855–1935), son of
Karl August Standersköld (Swed. Carl August Standertskjöld, 1814–1885),
bought it from the Räikkölä (Fin. Räikkölä) waterfall on the Vuoksa
River 16 hectares of land. He built a wood pulp mill on them. A
settlement was built around the enterprise, to which the baron gave the
name Enso (Fin. Enso, "first-born"). Later, the plant was expanded to a
cardboard and paper factory (Ensovsky combine or Enso plant). It was the
first large paper production in Finland.
Finland (1917-1940)
Over time, Enso became the industrial and commercial center of kunta.
The Norwegian timber merchant Hans Gutzeit, who owns the entire stake in
Enso Aktie Bolaget and Aktie Bolaget Gutzeit, united these companies.
The new company became known as Enso Gutzeit. Enso-Gutzeit Oy's
diversified production facilities made it world famous already in the
1920s.
War years (1939-1945)
After the end of the Winter War
and the signing of the Moscow Treaty on March 13, 1940, most of the
Vyborg province was transferred to the USSR. The new border divided the
Jaasky community and passed through Enso station. A joint Soviet-Finnish
commission for the demarcation of the border was created. Initially,
Enso was supposed to stay in Finland. However, on March 20, just a week
after the signing of peace, units of the Red Army, without any agreement
with the Finnish side and in violation of the signed Moscow Treaty,
crossed the new border line and occupied Enso. Finland was faced with a
fact: the city and the Enso plant, which was of interest to the USSR,
began to belong to the USSR. In the same way, Vartsila was annexed to
the USSR.
On June 23, 1940, at a meeting with the People's
Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov, Finnish
envoy to the USSR Juho Paasikivi raised the issue of the exchange of
Finnish territory in the Enso region for a section of USSR territory in
another region. According to Paasikivi, the section transferred to
Finland could not be recognized as equivalent to the section transferred
by Finland to the USSR. Molotov replied that, in view of the temporary
absence of Dekanozov, he would instruct General Secretary Sobolev to
deal with this issue. On July 3, Molotov gave an answer to Paasikivi
regarding the state border line in the Enso region.
During the
Soviet-Finnish War, which began in the summer of 1941, the city was
occupied by Finnish troops from August 21, 1941 and held until September
24, 1944.
USSR (1940-1991)
In 1949, the village of Enso was
renamed the city of Svetogorsk after a hydroelectric power plant that
provides light. Three years later, in 1951, the Enso plant was renamed
into Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill.
Entry into the border zone
where Svetogorsk is located was strictly limited and was allowed only
with passes. The influence of neighboring Finland was felt in the city:
local televisions received Finnish television channels, and Finnish
builders constantly worked on the territory of the pulp and paper mill,
coming here every day from the border town of Imatra.
There are two hotels in the city.
Church of the Nativity of
the Blessed Virgin Mary
First, a parish appeared in Svetogorsk, and
then a temple, which was located in the building of the former library.
The temple was completed in 1998. The antimension was received on
September 26, 1998. It so happened that the priest who arrived then had
nowhere to live, and he settled down with local residents. At the
moment, the rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Father Mikhail Kotov.
Lesogorsk estate (recreation center)
The recreation center, located in a historic mansion. The main building
is the former estate of a Finnish count named Rusavi, who built it for
his family in 1894-1896. It was called "Aholla Hall". During the
Soviet-Finnish war the house was under the supervision of the
manager. But when the Finnish troops were "on the threshold", the
servants had to leave it. The house was occupied by Finnish soldiers.
After the war, the building was empty for another 8 years. From 1953
to 1968 the first reconstruction was made. The building housed a
children's sanatorium. In 1974, Aholla-Hall was acquired by Avangard
OJSC.
Rock of love
There is a legend about the son of a local
count who fell in love with a girl from the village of "GES" (a village
for the staff of the local hydroelectric power station). But since the
girl was from the "simple", the father of the young man did not allow
them to get married. The young man and his beloved could not bear this
grief and together they jumped from the cliff, which is located between
the village and Aholla Hall. In memory of the tragedy, the place was
named the Rock of Love. There is a belief that if you make a wish and
throw an apple from a cliff, it will surely come true.
The city-forming enterprise is CJSC International Paper (from 1951 to
1988 - Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill), a subsidiary of International
Paper Corporation. The volume of shipped goods of own production in 2012
was more than 670 thousand tons (office paper of A3 and A4 formats,
offset paper, coated cardboard, bleached chemical-thermomechanical pulp,
tall oil, turpentine).
On the Vuoksa River - Svetogorskaya
HPP-11.
Infrastructure
International Paper Pulp and Paper Mill
is a city-forming enterprise, a subsidiary of International Paper
Corporation.
Dairy plant - is engaged in the processing of milk
coming from livestock complexes in the villages of Losevo and Pravdino.
ATS. It was put into effect on the night of February 21-22, 1978.
District hospital.
School stadium No. 1.
Stadium "Central".
Formerly the home arena of FC Svetogorets.
Polytechnic College
Stadium.
Stadium school number 2.
School No. 2. It is located in
the building of the Finnish school built in 1939.
School No. 1.
Commissioned in August 1975.
Cemetery
The
following mobile operators operate in the city: MTS, Beeline, Megafon,
Tele2, Skylink, Elisa, Sonera, DNA. The last three companies are
Finnish. Due to the fact that Svetogorsk is located very close to the
border, part of its territory is located in the coverage area of the
Finnish cellular networks.
Internet access is provided by: "TTK",
"Rostelecom".
Direct bus route No. 810 (St.
Petersburg - Svetogorsk) runs four times a day from the St. Petersburg
metro station Spb metro line Devyatkino (Northern Bus Station), travel
time is about 3.5 hours.
Bus route number 126 (Vyborg -
Svetogorsk) runs eight times a day.
Suburban passenger railway
traffic to Svetogorsk station has been absent since 2014.