Kommunar, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Oblast

Communards (Russian Коммунар ) is a city in the northwestern Russian Leningrad Oblast. She has (October 14, 2010 Status ) 20 211 inhabitants.

Geography

The city lies about 30 km south of Oblasthauptstadt Saint Petersburg on the left bank of Izhora, a left tributary of the Neva.

Communards belongs to Rajon Gatchina.

History

The town was founded in the early 1840s on the River Slavyanka as a farm, which represented the center of the vast possessions of the Countess Julia Samoilova. Accordingly, he was referred to as Grafskaja Slavyanka. After moving the Countess abroad 1846, the royal family bought the farm, which was then renamed Zarskaja Slavyanka.

End of the 19th century was near a paper mill company Rogers and Peiffer; the associated workers' settlement was called simply settlement at the Rogers and Peiffer Factory ( Possjolok pri -producers Rodschersa i Peiffera ).

After the October Revolution in 1918 was the renaming of factory and settlement in Communards (Russian for Communard, member of the Paris Commune ).

1953, the status of an urban-type settlement and 1993, the city charter was granted.

In Antropschino district (west of the station ) was the POW camp for 219 German prisoners of war of World War II.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

In Communards there is a paper mill, next to building materials industry.

The town lies on the railway line opened in 1904 Saint Petersburg- Dno - Nevel - Vitebsk ( kilometer 33; station Antropschino ).

By Communards leads the regional road Pushkin Pavlovsk Gatchina.