The Chernaya River (Russian: Чёрная Речка), also known as the Tchernaya Rechka or Black River, is a small river in Saint Petersburg. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...
The Chernaya is known for famous duels that took place there, including the 1909 duel between Nikolai Gumilyov and Maximilian Voloshin over the matter of a fictitious poet called Cherubina de Gabriak, and the fatal duel between poet-playwright Aleksandr Pushkin and his romantic rival Georges d'Anthès. Nikolai Gumilev during his senior years in gymnasium Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov (Russian: , April 15 NS 1886 - August 1921) was an influential Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement. ... Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin (1877 - 1932) was one of the significant representatives of the epoch of symbolism in Russian culture and literature. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Elisaveta Dmitrieva Cherubina de Gabriak (Russian: ) was a literary pseudonym of Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva (Russian: ; 1887–1928) most probably together with Maximilian Voloshin. ... Aleksandr Pushkin by Vasily Tropinin Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: ÐлекÑаÌндр СергеÌевич ПуÌшкин â–¶ (help· info)) (June 6 (May 26, O.S.), 1799 - February 10 (January 29, O.S.), 1837) was a Russian Romantic author whom many consider the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ... Georges-Charles de Heeckeren dAnthès Georges-Charles de Heeckeren dAnthès, baron (1812–1895). ...
The seminar was held in an old palace Znamenka (Petrodvorets) on the shore of the Gulf of Finland between mouths of rivers Shingarka and Strelka.
The most typical problems of small rivers in the North-West Russia are: run-off of surface waters, non-treated releases of wastewaters from industry, agriculture and households, garbage on river banks and in rivers, illegal changes of river courses and construction of hydrotechnical facilities (dams).
The seminar participants shared their results of monitoring rivers Luga, Kovashi, Glukhovka, Lebyazhya, Karasta, Strelka, Kikenka (the south shore of the Finnish Gulf), Slavyanka and Kamenka (the basin of the Neva river); Sestra, Chernaya, Roshinka (the north shore of the Finnish Gulf); of rivers in Kaliningrad and Novgorod regions, and the river Kumba in Finland.
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