Kommunar (Leningrad)
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Kommunar
Коммунар
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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
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 |
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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
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)
- ↑ 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
- City administration website (Russian)
- Kommunar on mojgorod.ru (Russian)