Ulyanovka, Leningrad Oblast
Chertovka (Russian Ульяновка ) is an urban-type settlement in Leningrad Oblast (Russia) with 11.601 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The settlement is located about 40 km southeast of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Saint Petersburg on river Sablinka immediately above its confluence with the left Neva Creek Tosna.
Chertovka belongs to Rajon Tosnenski and is located 12 km north- west of the administrative center Tosno. It is the seat and only town of the municipality Uljanowskoje gorodskoje posselenije.
Sablino Station (2012 )
Station forecourt
Hut on chicken legs in Chertovka ( Russian fairy tale motif)
History
The place was first mentioned in 1727 on a map of Ingria as Chartschewnja Sablina, obviously an inn a Sablin. By 1810, only a small place, then families settled from the government of Yaroslavl. In the 19th century included the lands various high nobles, the wife of the steward of the Tsar, Anna Naryshkina, later Count Nikolai Rumyantsev.
After the opening of Nikolai train from Saint Petersburg to Moscow 1851, a settlement around the station was built. By the end of the century it developed into a larger Datschensiedlung called Datschnoje Sablino. From 1905 to 1918 there existed a horse tram.
The districts grew together gradually and received on 9 December 1922 Chertovka name. The - at the time of renaming surviving - State leaders Lenin ( Vladimir Ulyanov actually ) had lived there from 1905 to 1906 with his sister Anna Elizarova - Ulyanova. Since May 16, 1927 Chertovka is the status of an urban-type settlement.
During World War II the city during the siege of Leningrad from autumn 1941 to 24 January 1944, occupied by the German Wehrmacht.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Attractions
In Chertovka the Nikolai Church ( церковь Николая Чудотворца, Tserkov Nikolaja Chudotvortsa ) is from 1899. Since 2001 there is a local museum.
Personalities
On the edge Uljanowkas near the Tosna there was the World War II largely destroyed property of the writer Alexei Tolstoy Pustynka ( Kosma Prutkov ), which was frequently visited there by figures such as the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov or the writer Ivan Turgenev. In the settlement temporarily lived among other things, the writer Vitaly Bianki and the poetess Olga Bergholz.
Traffic
In Chertovka located at kilometer 40 of the Sablino station on this section of the electrified railway line since 1960, St Petersburg - Moscow. After St. Petersburg suburb consists of trains. In Sablino a cross connection for freight as Mga branches along the route Saint Petersburg - from Vologda.
Southwest of the village passes the federal highway M10 Rossiya from Moscow to St. Petersburg, which is south of the settlement of the A120, the Southern half ring around Saint Petersburg crossed. Due to the settlement by the leading Otradnoje on the left bank of the Neva regional road 41K -028 runs.