Repino

Federal district	Northwest Russia
City with ; subject status	St. Petersburg
Rajon	spa
mayor	Natalja Alexejewa
First mention	1323
Urban-type settlement since	1948
surface	16 km²
population	2478 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	155 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	0 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 812
Post Code	197738
License Plate	78, 98, 178
OKATO	40 281 555
Geographical location
Coordinates	60 ° 10 ′ N , 29 ° 52 ′ E Coordinates: 60 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ N , 29 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Saint Petersburg

Repino ( Russian Репино ; until 1948 Kuokkala ) is a suburb of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg about 45 km northwest of the city center on the banks of the Gulf of Finland with 2,478 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

The Villa Penaten

Repin's house of Penaten.

Location of Repino in the urban area (dark illustration)

The urban-type settlement is administratively part of the district health resort belonging to the city of Saint Petersburg .

The settlement belonged to the Finnish part of the Russian Empire and after Finnish independence came to the new Republic of Finland , but fell to the Soviet Union during the Soviet-Finnish winter war . Repino was renamed in 1948 in honor of the painter Ilya Efimowitsch Repin , who had lived in what was then Kuokkala for three decades until his death in 1930. His property, the Villa Penaten ( Russian Пенаты ) named after the Roman patron gods , is now a museum and the most important attraction of the place.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	6555
1970	3824
1979	5164
1989	4215
2002	2011
2010	2478

Note: census data

Repino's sons and daughters

Michail Moissejewitsch Botvinnik (1911–1995), sixth world chess champion
Ivan Albertowitsch Puni (1892–1956), Russian painter

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 : Repino - collection of images, videos and audio files

http://funeral-spb.ru/necropols/repino/ (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)