Kolpino

Federal district	Northwest Russia
City with ; subject status	St. Petersburg
Rajon	Kolpino
Founded	1722
City since	1912
population	138,979 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 812
Post Code	196650-196655
License Plate	78, 98, 178
OKATO	40 277 501
Website	http://www.kolpino-spb.ru/
Geographical location
Coordinates	59 ° 45 ′ N , 30 ° 36 ′ E Coordinates: 59 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ N , 30 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Saint Petersburg
	List of cities in Russia

Kolpino ( Russian Колпино ) is a large city in Russia near Saint Petersburg with 138,979 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). Since 1998 it belongs administratively to Saint Petersburg and together with five neighboring settlements forms one of its districts ( Rajons ).

history

The Ischora river in Kolpino

In 1710, Prince Alexander Menshikov, with the approval of Tsar Peter I, began to rebuild a former Swedish sawmill southeast of the recently established new capital Saint Petersburg. The production of the plant was intended primarily for shipbuilding and was therefore of great strategic importance. Settlements formed around the plant, which were officially declared the new place Kolpino in 1722.

In the 19th century the sawmill and its infrastructure were greatly expanded; Kolpino's population was around 7,000 in 1880. In 1878 Kolpino received the status of a possad , i.e. a craft settlement , and three years later its own coat of arms. In 1912 Kolpino, now numbering over 20,000 inhabitants, was declared a city.

At the time of the Second World War , Kolpino was a front-line town from September 1941 to January 1944. Due to the local armaments industry, the city was the target of heavy air and artillery bombings, but without being attacked directly by the Wehrmacht . Several attempts by the Red Army to blow up the siege ring by attacking Kolpino in a south-easterly direction along the " October Railway " failed. It was not until January 1944 that the German units were forced to withdraw as a result of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation . To date, the city was largely destroyed and only had a fraction of its original population.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	37,648
1959	34,781
1970	70.178
1979	113.732
1989	141,457
2002	136,632
2010	138,979

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Industry is the most important basis of Kolpino's economy, it largely consists of steel processing companies, such as the Ischorski pipe works belonging to the Severstal Group, and mechanical engineering. On August 31, 2006, the German company Knauf opened a new plasterboard factory in Kolpino. The project created around 100 new jobs.

The city is connected to the M10 and A180 highways and has a train station on the Saint Petersburg – Moscow railway line .

sons and daughters of the town

Michail Tomski (1880–1936), trade union official
Evgeni Gross (1897–1972), physicist
Nikolai Boyarsky (1922–1988), theater and film actor
Nikolai Drosdezki (1957–1995), ice hockey player
Alexander Panow (* 1975), football player
Anton Malyshev (* 1985), ice hockey player

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Kolpino - collection of images, videos and audio files

City and Rajon Kolpino (Russian)
Portal of the City (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)