Krasnoye Selo
Krasnoje Selo (Russian Красное Село ) is a to Saint Petersburg ( Russia) belonging to the city. She has (October 14, 2010 Status ) 44 323 inhabitants.
Geography
The city is located in the Ischorahöhen about 25 km southwest of the center of Saint Petersburg on river Dudergofka, which opens at the St. Petersburg district Uritsk in the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea.
Krasnoje Selo is the center of the city with the same name Rajons federal subject status Saint Petersburg.
History
The village Krasnoje Selo (Russian for Beautiful village; Krasnoje in its old meaning) dates from the early 18th century.
From 1765 here was the location of the Guard troops of the St. Petersburg garrison of the Imperial Russian Army. Close to it is a paper factory. The environment was because of their scenic, hilly location popular area for country houses of the wealthy circles of the Russian capital.
A special role is played by the community in the development of Russian Aviation: 1882 led here Alexander Moschaiski his - but failed - experiments with a steam engine powered aircraft through; before the First World War, it was an airfield on which, for example, Igor Sikorski Russky Vityaz his, the first four-engine aircraft in the world, successfully tested.
In the Russian Civil War, advancing on Petrograd troops white General Nikolai Jew Nitsch were stopped at Krasnoje Selo in late autumn 1919 and broken up.
The award of the municipal law was already in October 1918 in an interview and was finally completed in 1925, as well as for the more northerly Uritsk ( until 1918 Ligovo, today settlement of municipal or county ( Okrug ) of Rajons Krasnoje Selo ).
During World War II Krasnoje Selo was occupied during the siege of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, on 19 January 1944, was recaptured by the Red Army during the Leningrad - Novgorod operation.
In 1973, the city Krasnoje Selo was assigned to the newly formed eponymous Stadtrajon of Leningrad.
In the meantime, however, was the official name of the city from 1996 of municipal district ( Okrug ) No. 43, as of 1999 the city again Krasnoje Selo.
Demographics
Note: Census data (1897 rounded)
Culture and sights
In Krasnoje Selo is the Department of Bridges of St. Petersburg Central Railway Museum.
Economy and infrastructure
The town lies on the railway line between Saint Petersburg ( Baltic Station ) - Gatchina. Until Krasnoje Selo, the line was opened in 1859. The continuation of the good 20 kilometers away, Gatchina in 1872, where the connection was made to the 1870 consistently route opened to Tallinn. Prior to the wrong trains to Gatchina on the route towards Warsaw.
By Krasnoje Selo the A180 trunk road Saint Petersburg- Iwangorod leads ( Estonian border ).
Sons and daughters
- Nikolai Alexeyevich Piljugin (1908-1982), Russian aerospace engineer