Izhora is an old name for this part of the coast. Long before Saint Petersburg, the land between the Neva and the Luga belonged to the Izhorians, a small Finnic people who fished, farmed and served as pilots on the river, and whose language survives only in a few villages. Bolshaya Izhora, the Great Izhora, is a modest settlement on the shore, with a church, some dachas and a sea wall, and the nearest town of any size is Kronstadt across the water. The point on the map sits at the edge of the gulf, in reed and low scrub, where the shallows run out for hundreds of metres and the horizon is a thin line of cranes and chimneys.
The honest summary is that the stop is as much about the landscape as the monument. The sea breeze brings a smell of salt, mud and pine, gulls scream over the shingle, and on a clear day you can see Kronstadt's forts as grey shapes on the water. Fishermen sit on the shore in winter on the ice, drilling holes and waiting patiently with thermos flasks.
The roads along this stretch are flat, quiet and a little rough. The shore road between Bolshaya Izhora and Lomonosov passes through pinewood and small villages, with tarmac that frost has broken in places, and the traffic is local. Weekday mornings are best, and wet weather turns the verges to mud. Do not expect much in the way of fuel in the village. Kronstadt and Lomonosov are the nearest places to fill up, each some ten kilometres away, and both have supermarkets and cafes.
Bring a jacket, since the wind off the water is cool even in July, and take a moment to walk to the shore and watch the sky change. Check current travel rules before going, as conditions for visitors in this region have altered recently.