Olgino () is a historical area in
Lakhta-Olgino Municipal Okrug
Lakhta-Olgino Municipal Okrug () is a administrative divisions of Saint Petersburg, municipal okrug of Primorsky District, Saint Petersburg, Primorsky District of the federal cities of Russia, federal city of Saint Petersburg, St. Petersbur ...
of
St. Petersburg,
Russia
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, located south-west of the area of
Lakhta and east of
Lisy Nos
Lisy Nos (; literally, " fox's nose"; ) is a municipal settlement in Primorsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on the cape of the same name in the northern part of the Kronstadt Bay. Population:
The sett ...
. This part of the
Neva Bay
The Neva Bay (), also known as the Gulf of Kronstadt, is the easternmost part of the Gulf of Finland between Kotlin Island and the Neva River estuary where Saint Petersburg city centre is located. It has a surface area of . The entire bay has been ...
coast was owned in the mid-19th century by Count Stenbock-Fermor, of Swedish provenance, who bestowed upon it the name of his wife Olga. In the early 20th century, Olgino emerged as a prosperous
dacha
A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and rus, дача, p=ˈdatɕə, a=ru-dacha.ogg) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of former Soviet Union, post-Soviet countries, including Russia. A cottage (, ...
village north of the Russian capital. Among its inhabitants was the poet
Korney Chukovsky. Olgino was incorporated into the city of Leningrad in January 1963.
The
gated community
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of "Versailles North" is located on the district.
Office of trolls
From the summer of 2013, there was a base of at least a hundred
internet trolls
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in Olgino, who were paid for distributing messages via the Internet to support Russian propaganda. In October 2014 it became known that the trolls had moved to Savushkina street (
Primorskiy district in St. Petersburg).
СМИ: «Ольгинские тролли» стали «савушкинскими»
. Lentizdat.ru. 28.10.2014
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Primorsky District, Saint Petersburg