Kolpino is a municipal city in Kolpinsky District

Kolpinsky District

Kolpinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 18 in Saint Petersburg, Russia....

 of the federal city

Federal cities of Russia

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 of St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Izhora River

Izhora River

The Izhora , also known as Inger River, is a left tributary of the Neva River on its run through Ingria in northwestern Russia from Lake Ladoga to Gulf of Finland. A settlement of Ust-Izhora is situated at the confluence of Izhora and Neva, halfway between Saint Petersburg and Schlisselburg. The...

 (Neva's tributary

Tributary

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) 26 kilometres (16.2 mi) southeast of St. Petersburg proper. Population: 81,000 (1972); 8,076 (1897).

Kolpino was founded in 1722 and was granted town status in 1912. It used to be one of the chief ironworks

Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and/or steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e...

 of the crown in Russia. Kolpino was also home to an iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...

 foundry

Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal in a mold, and removing the mold material or casting after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals processed are aluminum and cast iron...

 of the Russian Admiralty

Admiralty

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. A sacred image of St. Nicholas

Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...

 in the Trinity Church is visited by numerous pilgrim

Pilgrim

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s on the 22nd of May every year.

Many people of Kolpino work at Izhorsky Zavod

Izhorsky Zavod

Izhorskiye Zavody or Izhora Plants is a Russian machine building joint stock company belonging to the OMZ Group. It operates a major manufacturing plant in Kolpino, Saint Petersburg.-History:...

.

During the construction of a new residential building, a mass grave was discovered in Kolpino. There were 888 soldiers and officers of the Red Army buried in the mass grave in that cemetery. They fell in September 1941. It is located on the street of Very Slutskoy.

External links

• Website of Kolpino