Sertolovo

Sertolowo (Russian Сертолово ) is a city in the northwestern Russian Leningrad Oblast. She has (October 14, 2010 Status ) 47 457 inhabitants.

Geography

The city is situated on the Karelian Isthmus about 20 km north of the Oblasthauptstadt Saint Petersburg on river Chernaya, which empties into the Sestrorezki to Razliv pent Sestra.

Sertolowo the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly.

History

In the area of the present town existed at the beginning of the 16th century a village Sirotala (Russian Сиротала, Finnish Sierattala ), named after a nearby river.

In the years 1936 and 1937, the inhabitants of the Ingermanland near the former border of the Soviet Union to Finland situated village were deported and there erected a large garrison of the 70th Rifle Division of the Red Army. In the garrison emerged as a result the housing estates Sertolowo -1 and Sertolowo -2.

From the late 1960s, the renewed civil buildings of the town began, which was awarded in 1977 the status of an urban-type settlement. On 27 October 1998 the municipal law with simultaneous association of Sertolowo -1, Sertolowo -2, of the old village and the settlement Sertolowo Chernaya Retschka was awarded.

Today Sertolowo is a growing satellite city of St. Petersburg.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

In Sertolowo there are companies in the wood processing industry and the construction and building materials industry.

Nearest railway station is Pessotschnaja good five kilometers south of the route opened in 1870 Saint Petersburg- Vyborg - Finnish border ( kilometer 24).

By Sertolowo the regional road A122 Saint Petersburg- Ogonki leads (on the highway towards Vyborg and Finnish border ).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Sergei Vitalyevich Tschernezki (* 1990), rail and road cyclist