Sampsoniyevskoye Municipal Okrug

The district and okrug inventory and boundaries were defined by the Act[7] of Saint Petersburg on Territorial Division of Saint Petersburg of 2005 (subsequently updated):

2.3.1. Description of the boundaries of the municipal district Sampsonievskoe

The border passes:

from the Kantemirovsky Bridge in the south along the axis of the Bolshaya Nevka River to the Neva River, then along the axis of the Neva River to the Liteyny Bridge, then along the axis of Academician Lebedev Street to Lesnoy Prospekt, further along the axis of Lesnoy Prospekt to Litovskaya Street, then along the axis of Litovskaya Street to Polyustrovsky Prospekt, then along the axis of Polyustrovsky Prospekt to Karbyshev Street, then along the axis of Karbyshev Street to the north side of the right-of-way strip of the Ladoga railway direction, further along the north side of the right-of-way line of the Ladoga railway direction to the north on the other side of the Kushelevka - Lanskaya railway line, further along the northern side of the Kushelevka-Lanskaya railway line, to Lesnoy prospekt, then along the axis of Lesnoy prospekt to Institutsky lane, then along the axis of Institutsky lane to Bolshoy Sampsonievsky prospekt, then along the axis of the Bolshoy Sampsonievsky prospekt to Serdobolskaya street, then along the axis of Serdobolskaya street to Studencheskaya Street, then along the axis of Studencheskaya street to Beloostrovskaya street, then 40 m to the north-west along the axis of Beloostrovskaya Street to the western border of the territory of the Rainbow enterprise, then along the western border of the territory of the Rsduga enterprise to Kantemirovskaya Street, then along the axis of the Kantemirovskaya street to the river axis of the Big Nevka.

Together with the whole district, the okrug is centered around the southern part of the old road from Saint Petersburg to Vyborg, a borderline city that was founded by Sweden, but was taken by the Russian Army for the first time during the Great Northern War fought in the first quarter of the 18th century. That war has been commemorated in the okrug land: the decisive Russian victory in the Battle of Poltava falling on the feast day of Saint Sampson the Hospitable, St Sampson's church and later the present cathedral were built, and several streets were given the Swedish names of cities and towns in Finland. The southern part of the thoroughfare was named Bolshoy Sampsoniyevskiy prospect (the Greater Avenue of [Saint] Sampson), and when in post-Soviet times municipal okrugs were laid out within pre-existing city districts, this okrug was given Sampson's name as well. The okrug's arms show his namesake - an Old Testament hero Samson, whose figure shown tearing[8] open the mouth of the lion that attacked him was in the 18th century used as a rhetorical symbol of Russian victory over the Swedish empire epitomised in his golden statue in the center of Peterhof palace fountain park. A new connection with Sweden was established by the entrepreneurial family of Nobel in the second half of the 19th century, who built a factory and living quarters in the territory. Apartment buildings for families of local factories' workforce were often erected in late 1920s and first half of 1930s in Constructivism style.