Repino, Saint Petersburg

Coordinates: 60°10′N 29°52′E / 60.167°N 29.867°E / 60.167; 29.867
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Repino
Репино
Municipal Settlement
Flag of Repino
Flag
Coat of arms of Repino
Coat of arms
Location of Repino in Saint Petersburg
Location of Repino in Saint Petersburg
Location of Repino
Map
UTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[4])
Postal code(s)[5]
197738
Dialing code(s)+7 +7 812
OKTMO ID40367000
Soviet-era hotel Repinskaya in Repino

Repino (

Saint Petersburg-Vyborg railroad. It was known by its Finnish name Kuokkala until 1948, when it was renamed after its most famous inhabitant, the painter Ilya Repin. It is 30 kilometers (19 mi) northwest of St. Petersburg[6] on the Karelian Isthmus and Gulf of Finland
. The population was 2,478 at the 2010 Census.

History

The first mention of Kuokkala is in a peace treaty between the

Lenin spent some time in Kuokkala during 1905 to 1907, staying at the Vasa Villa, which served as the Bolshevik headquarters.[7]

Shortly after the

Red Finns at Kuokkala during the Finnish Civil War on 28 April 1918. In 1939, Kuokkala was taken over by the Soviet Union as the Karelian Isthmus was ceded by Finland to the USSR after the Soviet invasion of Finland (1939–1940). Kuokkala became a part of the Leningrad Oblast in 1948 and was renamed Repino by the Soviet regime in memory of the painter Ilya Repin.[6] After the war, the area was developed as a tourist area with several hotels and sanatoriums and was transferred to the jurisdiction of the city of St Petersburg as part of the Kurortny District
.

Penates

Ilya Repin's home called "Penates"

In 1899, Repin bought an estate here and called it Penaty (

Penates, Roman household deities
). He designed his own house, and after it had been built several years later, Repin moved to Kuokkala. He lived there until his death in 1930. The house is surrounded by a large park.

The estate is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments".[8] The estate has been a museum since 1940.[9]

Famous inhabitants

  • Ivan Puni, avant-garde artist, was born in Kuokkala in 1894.
  • Rosa Luxemburg, prominent Polish revolutionary socialist, stayed in Kuokkala from August until September, 1906.[10]
  • Vladimir Lenin, Russian communist leader and founder of the USSR, lived in Kuokkala between 1906 and 1907.
  • Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player, was born in Kuokkala in 1911.
  • Ilya Repin, painter and sculptor, lived in Kuokkala from the beginning of the 20th century until his death in 1930.
  • Korney Chukovsky, children's poet and philologist, lived in Kuokkala from 1906 until 1916.
  • Elena Mrozovskaya, an early female photographer, died in Kuokkala in 1941.[11]
  • Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer, went to Cottage #20 at the Composers' Union Resort, located in Repino, to relax and compose, every year from 1961 to 1975.[12]
  • In 2018, Repino was the base for the England team for the 2018 FIFA World Cup that was held in Russia.

Notes

  1. Wikidata Q12013
  2. Federal State Statistics Service
    .
  3. ^ "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  5. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  6. ^ a b (in German) Petersburg-Aktuell, "Repino: Zu Gast beim großen Meister", retrieved 25 May 2007.
  7. ^ Biggart, John; White, James. "A Memoir of Natalia Bogdanovna Korsak (Malinovskaia)". Academia.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  8. ^ Unesco World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments, retrieved 25 May 2007.
  9. ^ Info on the museum "Penates", retrieved 25 May 2007.
  10. ISBN 9788365304599
    .
  11. ISBN 9780820419565
    , Elena Lukinichna Mrozovskaya, an artistic photographer in St. Petersburg, had a house in Vammelsuu in the 1920s; in 1941 she died in Kuokkala, after the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40.
  12. ^ "Shostakovich Gallery – Katya Chiligiri Photography". katyachilingiri.com.

External links

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