Lisii Nos is located 1/4 verst (one verst = 3500 ft.) to the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea; there are quicksands on the road, meanwhile, the soil behind houses is swampy, clay and boggy. The water in only some of wells is fit for human consumption.

V.K.Simanskii. Where to go to the country.
St. Petersburg country places in regards to their healthiness.
St. Petersburg, 1889.

Lisii Nos is a headland set 20 versts to Saint Petersburg, jutting out into the Gulf of Finland, with a wooden wharf located merely 9 versts from Kronshtadt; Seaside Railway Line reaches the very steamboat wharf.

The Memory Book of St. Petersburg Administrative Province. St. Petersburg, 1905.

A branch line four kilometres long came from Razdelnaia and extends right to the headland named Lisii Nos /Fox Nose/, like the whole countryside jutting out into the Gulf of Finland. There was a wooden wharf at the edge of the headland, into which passenger ships came from Kronshtadt, and a locomotive connected to two or three carriages, carried people to Razdelnaia according to the scheduled train timetable.

Zasosov D.A., Pyzin V.I.
Saint Petersburg Life of the 1890s-1910s.
Notes of Witnesses. Leningrad, 1991.