Yelagin Channel
Yelagin or Elagin may refer to: *Yelagin (surname) * Yelagin Island *Yelagin Palace Yelagin Palace (Елагин дворец; also ''Yelaginsky'' or ''Yelaginoostrovsky Dvorets'') is a Palladian villa on Yelagin Island in Saint Petersburg, which served as a royal summer palace during the reign of Alexander I. The villa was desi ...

Yelagin (surname)
Yelagin or Elagin (feminine: Yelagina, Elagina) is a Russian-language surname. It may refer to: * , Russian noble family * Ekaterina Elagina, geologist, discoverer of the deposits of the Mir diamond mine * Ivan Elagin (poet) (1918–1987), Russian Emigre poet * Ivan Yelagin (1725–1794), Russian historian and poet, unofficial secretary to Catherine the Great * (1934–2007), Ukrainian poet * (1817–1891), Russian writer and notorious censor * Olga Elagin, poet Olga Anstei * Vasily Igorevich Yelagin, Russian mountaineer and explorer * (1743–?), Russian general * Vladimir Yelagin Vladimir Yelagin (russian: Владимир Елагин; born 20 April 1955) is a Russian politician, who served as governor and state minister without portfolio. Early life Yelagin was born on 20 April 1955. Career Yalegin is the former leade ... (born 1955), Russian politician Fictional characters *Yelagin, the protagonist of Ivan Bunin's novella ''Case of Cornet Yelagin'' () {{surname Ru ...
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Yelagin Island
Yelagin Island () is a park island at the mouth of the Neva River which is part of St. Petersburg, Russia. Yelagin Island is home to the Yelagin Palace but has a few other buildings as well. A former suburban estate of 18 century Russian nobles and later of a dowager Empress Maria, widow of Paul I of Russia, it has been serving since after the revolutions of 1917 as a city public park, officially Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Sergey Kirov, the famous Bolshevik city leader of early 1930s who supervised development of the city. Geography It is a flat island located in the delta of the Neva River, between the Grand Nevka branch and the Central Nevka. The island has a surface of 94 hectares. It stretches from east to west for 2.1 km and has a maximum width from north to south of 0.8 km. History The island initially served as a wooded retreat for the ruling class. Originally known as Melgunov Island, the island takes its present name from its former o ...
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