Kommunar (Leningrad)

city Kommunar Коммунар flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Leningrad Rajon Gatchina mayor Alexander Vlasov Founded 1840s City since 1993 surface 13  km² population 20,211 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1555 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 60  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code ([phone] Post Code 188320 License Plate 47 OKATO 41 218 505 Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 37 ′  N , 30 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Leningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kommunar ( Russian Коммуна́р ) is a city in the northwestern Russian Leningrad Oblast . It has 20,211 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 30 km south of the oblast capital Saint Petersburg on the left bank of the Ishora , a left tributary of the Neva .

Kommunar belongs to the Gatchina Rajon .

history

House of Culture in Kommunar

The place was founded at the beginning of the 1840s on the Slavyanka river as a manor, which was the center of the extensive estates of Countess Julia Samoilova . Accordingly, he was referred to as Grafskaja Slavyanka . After the Countess moved abroad in 1846, the tsarist family bought the farm, which was then renamed Zarskaya Slavyanka .

At the end of the 19th century a paper mill for the Rogers and Peiffer company was built nearby ; the associated workers' settlement was simply called settlement at the Rogers-und-Peiffer-Fabrik (Possjolok pri fabrike Rodschersa i Peiffera).

After the October Revolution , the factory and settlement were renamed Kommunar (Russian for Communard , member of the Paris Commune ) in 1918 .

In 1953 the status of an urban-type settlement was granted and in 1993 the town charter.

In the Antropschino district (west of the train station) there was a prisoner of war camp 219 for German prisoners of war from World War II .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	5,298
1970	6,854
1979	8,507
1989	17,791
2002	17.164
2010	20,211

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a paper mill in Kommunar, as well as a building materials industry.

The town lies on the 1904 opened railway St. Petersburg- Dno - Newel - Vitebsk (kilometer 33; Station Antropschino ).

The regional road Pushkin - Pavlovsk - Gatchina runs through Kommunar .

See also

• List of cities in Leningrad Oblast

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)
2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.

Web links

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

• City administration website (Russian)
• Kommunar on mojgorod.ru (Russian)