Coordinates: 59°44′N 30°36′E / 59.733°N 30.6°E / 59.733; 30.6

Map showing location of Kolpino within the city of Saint Petersburg

Troitsky sobor, Izhora river, and the bridge

Coat of arms

Flag

Coat of arms of Kolpino (1981)

Kolpino (Russian: Ко́лпино; Finnish: Kolpina, Kolppina, or Kolppana) is a municipal city in Kolpinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on the Izhora River (Neva's tributary) 26 kilometers (16 mi) southeast of St. Petersburg proper. Population: 138,013 (2010 Census preliminary results); 136,632 (2002 Census); 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 of the crown in Russia. Kolpino was also home to an iron foundry of the Russian Admiralty. A sacred image of St. Nicholas in the Trinity Church is visited by numerous pilgrims on the 22nd of May every year.

Many people of Kolpino work at Izhorsky Zavod.

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.

Sister cities

• Rauma, Finland
• Huai'an, China

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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