59°58′10″N 30°20′45″E / 59.96944°N 30.34583°E / 59.96944; 30.34583'The Vyborg Side (Russian: Выборгская сторона)[1] is the traditional name of the northern and northeastern part[2] of Saint Petersburg, Russia on the right-hand bank[3] of the city's main waterway Neva and its first right-hand arm the Bolshaya Nevka.
This large area was one of the five police administration parts of the city which were created under Peter I in 1718 and, shifting borders, existed until the February Revolution of 1917 that replaced them with rayony - districts of then Petrograd (the city's name in 1914–1924).
The Vyborg Side had previously been called Karelian Side and surrounded the old Swedish road to a then-major city of Vyborg from the Swedish town Nien and its fort located at the mouth of Okhta River, a tributary of the Neva.
The active participation of its factory workers in the 1917[4] October Revolution was shown in a series of three feature films about a young revolutionary workman with the first name Maxim, including the eponymous Vyborgskaya storona - The Vyborg Side.
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