Otradnoye (Leningrad)

city Otradnoe Otradnoe flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Leningrad Rajon Kirovsk mayor Alexei Belous First mention 1708 City since 1970 surface 10  km² population 23,866 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2387 inhabitants / km² Metropolitan area St. Petersburg Height of the center 17  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81378 Post Code 187330 License Plate 47 OKATO 41 225 504 Website www.490.ru Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 47 ′  N , 30 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Leningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Otradnoye ( Russian Отрадное ) is a city in the northwestern Russian Leningrad Oblast . It has 23,866 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Newa lowland about 40 km east of the Oblast capital Saint Petersburg on the left bank of the Neva .

Otradnoye belongs to the Kirovsk district .

history

A village Ivanovskaya (later also in the form Ivanovskoye ) at the confluence of the Tosna into the Neva was first mentioned in 1708. In the middle of the 19th century, the entrepreneur Sawwa Jakowlew had a copper rolling mill built here, after which the place was temporarily given the official name Mednoje (from Russian med for copper ).

1784 acquired the Empress Catherine II. , Near the village of a country house and called him Pella , after the ancient capital of Macedonia Pella , birthplace of Alexander the Great , probably related to her grandson and later Tsar Alexander I . In 1785 the construction of a palace began, but it was not completed. Under Paul I the building was demolished; only the outbuildings (post office and stables) were preserved until the Second World War. A country house settlement with the common name Otradnoje (from Russian otrada , somewhat pathetic for enjoyment , refreshment ) was built here later . Under this name, this place received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1940 .

During the Second World War , during the Leningrad blockade , both places were in the area of ​​the front line that reached the Neva from the south in this area east of Leningrad, and were completely destroyed.

After the reconstruction, Ivanovskoye became an urban-type settlement in 1957.

In 1970 both settlements and the village of Ust-Tosno were united and received city rights as Otradnoje .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	6,426
1970	18.603
1979	20,046
1989	22,386
2002	21,570
2010	23,866

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Otradnoj shipyard

In Otradnoye there is a river ship and boat yard (" Pella "), a plastics factory and a factory for power poles.

The city lies on this section of the railway line St. Petersburg - Volkhov - Vologda - Kirov or - Murmansk, which was opened in 1906 (route km 36; station name Pella , in memory of the palace of Catherine II).

The regional road, which connects the trunk road M10 north of Tosno via Nikolskoje with the trunk road M18 near Kirovsk, runs through Otradnoje .

sons and daughters of the town

• Andrei Buschkow (* 1969), figure skater

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)

Web links

Commons : Otradnoye  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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