Kolpino

Kolpino (Russian Колпино ) is a major city in Russia near Saint Petersburg with 138 979 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). Since 1998 she administratively belongs to Saint Petersburg and, together with five neighboring settlements one of its districts ( Rajons ).

History

1710 Prince Alexander Menshikov began to endorsement of Tsar Peter I with the reconstruction of a former Swedish sawmill southeast of the recently created new capital, Saint Petersburg. The production of the work should serve primarily for shipbuilding and therefore had a high strategic importance. Around the plant were formed settlements that have been officially declared 1722 as the new place Kolpino.

In the 19th century the sawmill and its infrastructure were greatly expanded; the population was around 1880 Kolpinos already around 7000 inhabitants. 1878 Kolpino received the status of Possads, so a craft village, and three years later his own coat of arms. 1912 Kolpino was now about 20,000 inhabitants, counting, declared a town.

At the time of the Second World War Kolpino was from September 1941 to January 1944 frontier city. Because of the local defense industry, the city was the target of heavy air and artillery bombardment, but without being directly attacked by the Wehrmacht. Several attempts by the Red Army to break the siege by attacks of Kolpino, to the southeast, along the " October Railway " from failed. In January 1944, the German forces were forced to withdraw due to the Leningrad - Novgorod operation. To date, the city was largely destroyed and only had a fraction of their original inhabitants.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

The industry is the main base of the economy Kolpinos, it consists mostly of steel processing plants, such as the Severstal Group belonging Ischorski - tube factory, and from the mechanical engineering. On 31 August 2006, the German company Knauf Plasterboard opened a new factory in Kolpino. Through the project, around 100 new jobs have been created.

The town has links to the M10 and A180 trunk roads and has a station on the railway line St. Petersburg - Moscow.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Nikolai Drosdezki (1957-1995), ice hockey player
  • Mikhail Tomsky (1880-1936), trade union official
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