Kommunar is a town in Gatchinsky District

Gatchinsky District

Gatchinsky District is an administrative and municipal district of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Gatchina . District's population: Area: ....

 of Leningrad Oblast

Leningrad Oblast

Leningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It was established on August 1, 1927, although it was not until 1946 that the oblast's borders had been mostly settled in their present position...

, Russia

Russia

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, situated 35 kilometres (21.7 mi) south of St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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It was founded in the 1840s by the land owner countess Yuliya Samoylova

Yuliya Samoylova

Countess Yuliya Pavlovna Samoylova was a granddaughter of Count Martyn Skavronskiy and the last scion of Skavronskiy family. She was born to Pavel von der Pahlen and Mariya Skavronskaya, but grew up in the house of Count Yuliy Litta due to early death of her mother...

 as Grafskaya Slavyanka . In 1846 it was purchased by the government and renamed Tsarskaya Slavyanka . Until 1918, it was also known as the settlement at the Rogers and Peiffer factory . It was granted urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

status in 1953 and town status in 1993. The main enterprise of the town is the Kommunar paper factory.