The district takes its name from
Lake Lakhta, which depending on definition may also be classed as an
inlet of the
Neva Bay. Lahti is a
Finnish word meaning "inlet", and there is a city in
Finland also called
Lahti. Lakhta is a Russian transliteration of Lahti. The municipality of Lakhta was historically populated with Finns, though it never was part of Finland, as Finland only gained its independence in 1917. By the 1880s approximately 80% of the peasants were
Finnish and spoke poor Russian.[3] Lakhta is located on the
Karelian isthmus, in Northern
Ingria near historic
Finnish Karelia.