Repino
Urban-type settlement
Repino
Репино
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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 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 |
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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
- http://funeral-spb.ru/necropols/repino/ (Russian)