🌳 Dyuny (Dunes) Beach

Санкт-Петербург, Сестрорецк (Курорт), Приморское ш., ост. «Дюны»

Sand dunes with pines on the gulf shore — one of the most picturesque spots on the coast.

The dunes on the Sestroretsk shore began to form more than 5,000 years ago, as the Littorina Sea retreated.
The beach lies at the mouth of the northern arm of the Malaya Sestra river.
Until 1940 this shore belonged to Finland, and the area received the name "Dyuny" in 1948.
In 1986 two old granite border posts with crosses were dug up here; in 2014 they were moved to the Sestroretsk Frontier museum.
From the 1960s until the mid-2010s the Dunes were known as a nudist beach.

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