Kingisepp

Kingisepp, previously Yamburg, Yam and Yama, is an historic metropolis and the administrative center of Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, positioned alongside the Luga River 138 kilometers southwest of St. Petersburg, 20 kilometers east of Narva, and 40 kilometers south of the Gulf of Finland. The city turned into first documented in 1384, while the Novgorodians below Patrikas built there a fort in opposition to the Swedes. It become known as Yama or Yamsky Gorodok, after the Ingrian name Jaama. The environs of the metropolis are still stated as the principle region of audio system of the almost extinct Ingrian language. The castle withstood sieges with the aid of the Swedes in 1395 and with the aid of the Teutonic Knights at some point of the 1444–1448 conflict.
The metropolis became the maximum vital monetary center of the Vodskaya pyatina of the Novgorod Republic. There were 201 homesteads inside the 15^th century within the city; its total population can handiest be evaluated kind of based totally at the estimates of 3 to 5 men and women in line with dwelling house. At the end of the Livonian War, it become ceded to Sweden, only to be returned twelve years later, in 1595. Following the Treaty of Stolbovo, it once more handed to the Swedes, who stored the name which in Swedish orthography have become Jama or Jamo. The town changed into absolutely destroyed by Russian armies during the war of 1656–1658, after which best the fortress remained intact. It is questionable whether the city, with its completely Russian population, ever recovered.