Komarovo

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Urban-type settlement Komarovo Комарово flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia City with subject status St. Petersburg Rajon spa Earlier names Kellomjaki population 1230 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 812 Post Code 197733 License Plate 78, 98, 178 OKATO 40 281 552 Geographical location Coordinates 60 ° 11 ′  N , 29 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saint Petersburg

Komarowo ( Russian Комарово , Finnish Kellomäki ) is a small town in the spa town of Saint Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland . The place is on the railway line Saint Petersburg - Vyborg , about 45 km northwest of Petersburg. Komarowo has 1230 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Komarovo is an important health resort and residence of well-known Russian scientists, artists, writers and actors. The place is also known for its sandy beach and dunes, Scots pine and spruce forests and ice age lakes.

history

The settlement developed in the early 20th century as part of the construction of a railway line from Saint Petersburg to Vyborg and the summer house building boom ( called dacha in Russia ) in the region. The opening day of the station on May 1, 1903 has been considered the unofficial founding day of Kellomäki.

In 1908 the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit was built, but it fell victim to a fire in 1917.

Baltic coast near Komarowo

By 1916 there were already 800 dachas in Kellomäki. In the time before the Russian Revolution , many well-known personalities from Russia settled here, such as the jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé , the writer Leonid Andrejew , the ballerina Matilda Kschessinskaja and the St. Petersburg chocolate manufacturer George Borman .

The rapid development of the place was interrupted by Finland's declaration of independence in 1917. Many dacha owners left the place. At the beginning of the Soviet-Finnish war there were still 167 families living in Kellomäki. Many of them were evacuated to Järvenpää during the Russian-Finnish border dispute in October 1939 . On November 30th, Kellomäki surrendered to the Soviet troops after an artillery bombardment.

The place became part of the Soviet Union through the Moscow Peace Treaty in 1940 . Immediately after the Second World War , the Council of People's Commissars published Decree No. 2638 on the formation of dachas for members of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . Standard houses from Finland (as part of war reparation services) were transported to Kellomäki and built.

In 1948, Kellomäki was renamed Komarowo in honor of the botanist Vladimir Komarow , President of the Academy of Sciences in 1948. Special dachas have now been set up for writers, composers, actors and nuclear scientists. Due to the easy accessibility of the place through the electrical railway connection, Komarovo became a place of the Leningrad intelligentsia over time .

Since the 1990s, however, the scientific and cultural tradition of Komarovo weakened somewhat, and many nouveau riche people now settle here. In 2005 the non-profit organization Kellomäki-Komarowo was founded. Projects are u. a. the construction of a new church, the opening of a museum and the protection of the picturesque forests around Komarowo.

Komarovo became known throughout the USSR in the 1980s through a popular song by Igor Skljar , "На недельку, до второго, Я уеду в Комарово" ("For a week until the second [day of the month] I am going to Komarovo"). Komarovo Beach was probably the scene for the 16th episode of Nu, pogodi ! (a popular Russian cartoon series).

Population development

year	Residents
1970	1389
1979	903
1989	1635
2002	1062
2010	1230

Note: census data

Personalities

literature

Anna Akhmatova's grave in Komarovo

• Fyodor Alexandrowitsch Abramow , writer (born February 29, 1920, † May 14, 1983)
• Leonid Nikolajewitsch Andrejew , writer (born August 21, 1871, † September 12, 1919)
• Anna Andreevna Akhmatova , poet (born June 23, 1889, † March 5, 1966)
• Joseph Brodsky , poet (born May 24, 1940, † January 28, 1996)
• Daniil Alexandrowitsch Granin , writer (born January 1, 1919)
• Lidija Kornejewna Tschukowskaja , writer (born March 24, 1907, † February 8, 1996)
• Lydia Ginzburg , literary critic (born March 18, 1902, † July 1990)
• Dmitri Sergejewitsch Likhachev , linguist (born November 28, 1906, † September 30, 1999)
• Vera Fyodorovna Panova , writer (born March 20, 1905, † March 3, 1973)
• Jewgeni Lwowitsch Schwarz , playwright (born October 21, 1896, † January 15, 1958)
• Michail Leonidowitsch Slonimski , writer (born August 1, 1897, † October 8, 1972)
• Arkadi and Boris Strugazki , science fiction writers

Art and architecture

• Natan Issajewitsch Altman , painter (* December 22, 1889, † December 12, 1970)
• Boris Borissowitsch Piotrowski , director of the Hermitage (born February 14, 1908)
• Sergei Speranski , architect
• Ivan Vladimirov , painter, graphic artist

music

• Yuri Anatoljewitsch Balkashin , composer (born October 18, 1923, † October 24, 1960 in Komarowo)
• Boris Grebenschtschikow , rock musician (born November 27, 1943)
• Oleg Karavichuk , composer
• Boris Lazarevich Kljusner , composer (born June 1, 1909, † May 21, 1975 in Komarowo)
• Grigori Abramowitsch Kerin , composer (born March 18, 1879, † January 6, 1957 in Komarowo)
• Sergei Anatoljewitsch Kurjochin , rock musician (born June 16, 1954, † July 9, 1996)
• Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch , classical composer (born September 25, 1906, † August 9, 1975)
• Wassili Solowjow-Sedoi , songwriter (born April 25, 1907, † December 2, 1979)

science

• Shores Iwanowitsch Alfjorow , physicist, Nobel Prize winner (born March 15, 1930)
• Ivan Antonovich Yefremov , paleontologist and science fiction writer (born April 22, 1908, † October 5, 1972)
• Dmitri Konstantinowitsch Faddejew , mathematician (born June 30, 1907, † October 20, 1989)
• Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Fock , mathematician (* December 22, 1898, † December 27, 1974)
• Alexander Alfonsowitsch Grossheim , botanist (born March 6, 1888, † December 4, 1948)
• Abram Fjodorowitsch Ioffe , physicist (born October 29, 1880, † October 14, 1960)
• Wladimir Leontjewitsch Komarow , botanist (born October 13, 1869, † December 5, 1945)
• Juri Wladimirowitsch Linnik , mathematician (born January 8, 1915, † June 30, 1972)
• Leon Abgarowitsch Orbeli , physiologist (* July 7, 1882, † December 9, 1958)
• Wiktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski , philologist (* August 2, 1891, † January 31, 1971)
• Michail Michailowitsch Somow , oceanologist (born April 7, 1908, † December 30, 1973)
• Viktor Borissowitsch Soschawa , geographer (born June 20, 1905, † December 29, 1978 in Komarowo)
• Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov , mathematician (born June 10, 1887, † February 11, 1974)
• Alexei Fyodorowitsch Trjoschnikow , polar explorer (born April 14, 1914, † November 18, 1991)

Theater and cinema

• Alexei Wladimirowitsch Batalow , actor (born November 20, 1928)
• Nikolai Konstantinowitsch Cherkassov , actor (born July 27, 1903, † September 14, 1966)
• Alissa Brunowna Freindlich , actress (born December 8, 1934)
• Grigori Michailowitsch Kosinzew , director (* March 20, 1905, † May 11, 1973)
• Nadeschda Nikolajewna Koschewerowa , director (born September 23, 1902, † February 22, 1989)
• Andrei Iwanowitsch Krasko , actor (born August 10, 1957, † July 4, 2006)
• Matilda Felixovna Kschessinskaja , ballerina (born August 31, 1872, † December 6, 1971)
• Innokenti Michailowitsch Smoktunowski , actor (born March 18, 1925, † August 3, 1994)
• Georgi Alexandrowitsch Towstonogow , theater director (born September 28, 1915, † May 24, 1989)
• Galina Sergejewna Ulanowa , ballerina (born January 8, 1910, † March 21, 1998)

Other

• George Borman , owner of a famous St. Petersburg chocolate factory
• Peter Carl Fabergé , jeweler (born May 30, 1846, † September 24, 1920)
• Augustin Reiche , speech therapist
• Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubowa , maid of honor of the Romanov family (* July 16, 1884, † July 20, 1964)

literature

• Kellomäki - Komarovo , Komarovo Municipal Council, Balashov et al., Saint Petersburg: Izdatestvo "MKS", 2003, ISBN 5-901810-03-1
• Komarovo Shore - Complex Natural Reserve , Volkova, Isachenko and Khramtsov, Saint Petersburg, 2002, ISBN 5-93938-030-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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 : Komarowo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• komarovo.spb.ru - Official website of Komarovo (Russian)
• Kellomäki-Komarowo, Non-Profit Organization (Russian)
• Komarovo - History of Komarovo with many photos (Russian)