Kirovsk, Leningrad Oblast

Kirovsk (Russian Кировск ) is a city in Leningrad Oblast in Russia.

Kirovsk is located 33 km east of Saint Petersburg and 7 km southwest of Lake Ladoga on the Neva. The nearest town is nine kilometers away Schlüsselburg. In Kirovsk 25,650 inhabitants ( October 14, 2010 ). The city is the administrative seat of Rajons Kirovsk.

History

Founded in the town on the left bank of the Neva was in 1929. Occasion of the foundation was the promoted in the early Soviet period, development of power plants in order to ensure the power supply of large cities. Near the present Kirovsk a new power plant for electrification of Leningrad was built on the initiative of the statesman Sergei Kirov. Originally called the associated settlement Newdubstroi ( Невдубстрой ). The power plant was put into operation in 1933.

During the Second World War, a few kilometers before the settlement occurred in January 1943 heavy fighting between the Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army, the part of the operation to break through the years of the Leningrad blockade were. At these events since 1985, remembers a museum complex on the former battlefield near the town.

In 1953 the settlement of the Leningrad Oblast was in what was then Rajon Mga the city status and its present name in honor of Sergei Kirov, whose name the power plant has been wearing since 1934. 1977 Kirovsk administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

In addition to the thermal power station ( GRES ) exist in Kirovsk several industries, including a factory for shipbuilding plant and a concrete plant. Also located in the city a new industrial area in the building.

Kirovsk is the starting point of the car highway A120, which at the city from the highway M18 (St. Petersburg - Murmansk ) branches off and leads to the Baltic Sea at Bolshaya Izhora. Also, the city has a railway station which carries its historical name ( Newdubstroi ).