Zhitkovo

Coordinates: 60°42′N 29°20′E / 60.700°N 29.333°E / 60.700; 29.333

Zhitkovo (Russian: Житко́во; Finnish: Ristseppälä) is a settlement on Karelian Isthmus, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast. It was a station of the Vyborg–Veshchevo–Zhitkovo–Michurinskoye railroad constructed by Finland in the 1920s. However, the Zhitkovo-Michurinskoye link has been dismantled in the 1950s, and the Veshchevo-Zhitkovo link—in 2001.

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