Place:Kolpino, Leningrad, Severo-zapadny, Russia

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Kolpino (; , , or ) is a municipal city in Kolpinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on the Izhora River (Neva's tributary) 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 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.

With the onset of the Great Patriotic War in Kolpino formed part of the militia, August 24 - September 4, 1941 from factory workers formed Izhora Battalion. The front line was held in the immediate vicinity of the plant, which was subjected to enemy shelling (to 1944 Kolpino of 2183 houses survived 327). In the neighborhoods Kolpino and its boulevards burst 140,939 shells and 436 aerial bombs. According to some incomplete data for the war by shelling and starvation in the Kolpino district killed 4,600 people, not counting the dead on the front. By January 1, 1944 Kolpino there were only 2196 inhabitants. After the lifting of the siege, people are gradually coming back from the evacuation and from army. On January 1, 1945 population was 7404, the beginning of next year - 8914 people.

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.

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