Zelenogorsk (Saint Petersburg)

Federal district	Northwest Russia
City with ; subject status	St. Petersburg
Rajon	spa
First mention	18th century
City since	1946
population	14,958 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 812
Post Code	195253
License Plate	78, 98, 178
OKATO	40 281 509
Geographical location
Coordinates	60 ° 12 ′ N , 29 ° 42 ′ E Coordinates: 60 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ N , 29 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Saint Petersburg
	List of cities in Russia

Selenogorsk ( Russian Зеленогорск , Finnish Terijoki , Swedish Terijoki ) is a city in Russia on the Gulf of Finland , about 50 kilometers northwest of the city center of Saint Petersburg on the M10 trunk road . Administratively it belongs to the district health resort of the city of Saint Petersburg and has 14,958 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The place has been known as a Finnish fishing village since the beginning of the 18th century.

After the Great Northern War , Terijoki and Ingermanland fell to Russia for the first time in 1721 . As part of the Grand Duchy of Finland , it was under Russian rule until the end of the Tsarist Empire . It was particularly important as a seaside resort for the wealthy Petersburg residents, especially since the railway from the capital to Vyborg opened . When Finland was declared a sovereign state by revolutionary leader Lenin in 1917 , Terijoki was one of the southernmost communities in the young republic. In the Finnish-Soviet winter war of 1939/40 it was conquered by the Red Army and was the seat of a Stalinist Finnish puppet government under Otto Kuusinen . Although the Finns were able to prevent the conquest of their country, they had to cede some parts of the country in Karelia in the Peace of Moscow . Terijoki became Soviet, but was recaptured by the Finns in 1941 in the Continuation War . In 1944 Terijoki finally fell to the Soviet Union.

In 1946 the place was declared a city, and in 1948 it was given its current name, literally meaning "green city". Today it is subordinate to the city administration of Saint Petersburg and is the second largest city in the health resort after Sestrorezk .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	12,527
1970	16.206
1979	12,044
1989	13,032
2002	12,074
2010	14,958

Note: census data

Personalities

Georgi Plekhanov (1856–1918), philosopher, died in Terijoki
Anton Arenski (1861–1906), composer, died in Perkjärvi near Terijoki
Boris Smyslowsky (1897–1988), officer in the German Wehrmacht
Georgi Wizin (1917–2001), actor, was born in Terijoki
Anton Milagros , b. Barbashin (* 1972) visual artist, lives and works in Berlin
Galina Arsenkina (* 1991), curler

gallery

Lutheran Church in Terijoki (1908, architect Josef Stenbäck )
Marina on the Gulf of Finland in Zelenogorsk

Web links

Commons : Zelenogorsk (Saint Petersburg) - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

City website terijoki.spb.ru (Russian)
http://zelenogorsk.allnw.ru/ (Russian)

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)

[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)