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About Kolpino

Kolpino is a municipal city in Kolpinsky District of the federal metropolis of St. Petersburg, Russia, located at the Izhora River 26 kilometers southeast of St. Petersburg right. Kolpino was founded in 1722 and become granted city status in 1912. It changed into one of the leader ironworks of the crown in Russia. Kolpino became also domestic to an iron foundry of the Russian Admiralty. A sacred photo of St. Nicholas in the Trinity Church is visited through severa pilgrims on May 22 each year.

With the onset of the Great Patriotic War, Kolpino manufacturing facility people shaped Izhora Battalion, part of the military, August 24 - September 4, 1941. The the front line changed into held in the instantaneous vicinity of the plant, which was subjected to heavy enemy shelling. By 1944, simplest 327 of Kolpino's 2183 houses remained intact. A 140,939 shells and 436 aerial bombs fell in Kolpino's neighborhoods and boulevards. According to incomplete records for the war, shelling and starvation within the Kolpino district killed 4,600 human beings, no longer counting the lifeless at the front.

By January 1,1944 Kolpino had simplest 2196 population. After the lifting of the siege, human beings gradually got here lower back from the evacuation and from the navy. On January 1, 1945 populace become 7404, the beginning of subsequent year - 8914 humans. During the development of a new residential constructing, a mass grave became determined in Kolpino. 888 infantrymen and officials of the Red Army have been buried within the mass grave in that cemetery. They fell in September 1941.

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