Where to Stay in Kolpino, Sankt-Peterburg

What is Kolpino known for?

The Izhorskiye Zavody architectural ensemble marks the works that made Kolpino, and the Памятный знак «Броневщикам Ижорских заводов» honours the men who turned out armour there. Two canals cut the town. The Sovetsky canal and the Komsomolsky canal run through it, and the Monument to City of Military Glory stands for the wartime honour the town holds.

The Voznesenskaya church keeps older ground.

What are the main landmarks in Kolpino?

Industry defines the roll. The Izhorskiye Zavody architectural ensemble, the Izhorskiye Zavody school, and the Izhorskiye Zavody hospital are all listed, and the Заводская контора still stands as the office that ran them. Churches make the counterweight.

The Voznesenskaya church, the Old Holy Trinity Church, the Ark Church, and the Alexander Nevsky Chapel each keep a corner of the town, while the Lenin statue and the Monument to the heroes of Russian Civil War hold the secular side. The Monument to City of Military Glory closes the list.

What is the history of Kolpino?

Kolpino dates from 1722. The settlement began on the Izhora River, and the works that became the Izhorskiye Zavody set the shape of everything laid down afterwards. Water shaped the rest.

The Sovetsky canal and the Komsomolsky canal were cut through the growing town, and the Izhorskiye Zavody school, the Izhorskiye Zavody hospital, and the Izhorskiye Zavody residential building followed as the works took on the duties of a municipality. Merchants built alongside the works. The Жилой дом recorded as the дом купца Ушкова survives from that commercial layer, along with the public baths and the orphanage that later became an art school.

Then came the upheavals. The Monument to the heroes of Russian Civil War marks the first of them, and the Lenin statue that followed set the tone for the Sovetsky Boulevard blocks raised in the decades after. War reached Kolpino directly.

The Памятный знак «Броневщикам Ижорских заводов» honours the armour-makers of the works, and the Братская могила советских воинов at Понтонный holds the dead of the Great Patriotic War. Recognition followed the war. The Monument to City of Military Glory records that honour, while the Voznesenskaya church and the Old Holy Trinity Church remain the oldest religious fabric the town has held on to.

Where is Kolpino?

The Izhora River runs through it. Kolpino sits on that river 26 kilometres southeast of Saint Petersburg, inside Kolpinsky District of the federal city, with the Sovetsky canal and the Komsomolsky canal cut through the built-up area. Понтонный lies at the district edge. The whole of it belongs to Saint Petersburg rather than to any separate region, which is why a works town on the Izhora carries a city address.

What is the climate of Kolpino?

The Izhora River gives little shelter. Kolpino lies in the temperate band 26 kilometres southeast of Saint Petersburg, close enough to share the weather of the federal city and far enough inland to feel the winters a shade harder. The canals freeze with the season.

Sovetsky canal and Komsomolsky canal follow the same calendar as the Izhora River, and the winter daylight stays short this far north.

How do you get to Kolpino?

Saint Petersburg feeds every approach. Kolpino lies 26 kilometres southeast of the city and belongs to it, so the run out is a suburban one rather than a journey between separate places. Понтонный marks the far edge. Roads in from Saint Petersburg reach Sovetsky Boulevard and the Izhorskiye Zavody architectural ensemble before anything else, which puts the works and the centre at one arrival point.