The City Of Krasnoye Selotechnically considered an administrative unit, belonging to the Petersburg. This wonderful St. Petersburg suburb is mentioned in the famous novel "Anna Karenina", and to this day has a historic district called "Village Races". The city appeared on the map at the beginning of the XVIII century. Then it was a factory worker village at the paper mill, built by Peter I. there lived serfs relocated from neighbouring villages, particularly the suburban village of Red, so that the village received the same name. It should be noted that in the city, near the shores of the pristine lake Nameless, is the neighborhood, which is called Factory village. After a couple of decades after its founding, it was built the Holy Trinity Church that pleases the congregation with their worship to this day. It is around this temple was used for the construction of the red Village. Trinity Church has a matchless features, which incorporates elements of both the early and late Baroque. In Catherine's era, this place was called the "summer capital of the Imperial military guard." There were exercises, reviews and parades of the troops of the Petersburg garrison. In the XIX century here was established a large military training area with a huge parade ground, with a total area of over 200 m2. A particularly strong shock, the city has experienced in the years of the great Patriotic war, when for 3-year occupation of the Nazis, there were destroyed almost all the city's buildings. Among the few surviving buildings of the Village of red was the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built in the XIX century. Stunning external and internal decoration of the Church, with its lavish lace decoration that pleases the eye of the parishioners today. In the walls of the temple houses the icon of Simeon the righteous, which according to legend appeared in a place suddenly formed source. Due to topography, rich in hills, there was particularly fierce fighting. Now in the Red Village, a large number of monuments and memorial complexes dedicated to the Victory over fascism and the people who brought it to their lives. Among the most modern war memorials, it should be noted
The Arch Of Victorylike the one that stood in 1945-m to year on Srednyaya Rogatka on the southern border of Leningrad. Another historic district of the city is the Mozhayskiy district, of the same square, named by the name of the legendary rear Admiral and a brilliant inventor, aviation pioneer and military leader Alexander Fedorovich.