Keskustelu:Lahti (Pietari)

English

Hello. I can't speak Finnish, but you seem to be able to speak good enough English to take the picture and gist of the Thunder Stone part and put it here. If you don't mind, I'm a little confused about what exactly Lakhta is. Is it a district? a town? a village? is there some other technical term for it? Please reply either here or on the English article. Thank you.

Now I try to explain this. "Lahti" is a Finnish word meaning a small gulf, and there is a major town Lahti in Finland, too. But this other Lahti was a kind of municipality - and a Lutheran parish - in Ingria filled with Finnish speaking people, and it has been a part of Sweden and Russia in different times of history, never being a real part of Finland, which got its independency only 1917. So, this Lahti was but a village, also a larger area. In Russian, the word "район" (raion) means a district, bat also a part of town, which is nowadays the truth: It is a part of St. Petersburg. --Höyhens 29. huhtikuuta 2007 kello 09.35 (UTC)