Kolomna Municipal Okrug (russian: муниципа́льный о́круг Коло́мна) is a

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Admiralteysky District Admiralteysky District (russian: Адмиралте́йский райо́н) is a district of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population: was 157,897; down from 187,837 recorded in the 200 ...

of the

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of St. Petersburg,

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. Population:

History

Scope

It borders the

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, New Admiralty Canal, and the

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in the northwest, the

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in the

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, and Kryukov Canal in the

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Origin

The settlement areas of future Kolomna (the name is believed to have originated from Russified names of survey pillars - columns) was carried out after the fires in 1736 and 1737 devastated the Maritime and Admiralty settlement. Resettlement of people from these settlements gave rise to another version of the name. Perhaps, in the reign of

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the formation of the names could influence the

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, in translation, from which the settler were called colonists, and the place they inhabited - a colony that Russian remade in its own way - Kolomna.

Occupation

The first inhabitants of Kolomna were mariners -

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. Later there settled

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, tradesmen and, with few exceptions-poor gentry. The number of inhabitants in Kolomna continuously increased. In the middle of the 19th century, there lived about 50 thousand people in the mid-1890s - more than 70 thousand, and the census of 1910 indicates the number of inhabitants of Kolomna - more than 85 thousand.

Notable residents

*On the waterfront of Kryukov Canal there is a two-storey house #23. This house belonged to Dmitri Ivanovich Khvostov, the nephew of the great Russian military commander Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. Alexander V. settled in this house. May 17 Suvorov died in this house. At home, where he died in 1950, found a marble slab with a bas-relief of Suvorov and text: "In this house 6 May 1800 died the great Russian military leader Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov. *

Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

lived in Kolomna for three years in a house number 185, until he was exiled in 1820. In 1830 he wrote a poem "Domik v Kolomne" (in Cyrillic "Домик в Коломне"; known in English as "The Little House at Kolomna"). In the same house lived the brilliant architect Carlo Rossi, who died there in 1849. *At Shopping street, in the fall of 1824 lived

Alexander Griboyedov Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов, ''Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov'' or ''Sergeevich Griboyedov''; 15 January 179511 February 1829), formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Gri ...

Architecture

Typical buildings

The typical house of the Old Kolomna would be a moderate wooden house with a carved ridge under the roof and wood carvings under the windows, the perron with steps and the stairs with two flight of steps leading to the second floor.

Well-known buildings

* Garden Street * Turgenev Square *

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*the Saint Petersburg

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* New Holland

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20100221033206/http://mihgri.by.ru/Kolomna.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20070520070628/http://www.encspb.ru/article.php?kod=2803999803 *https://web.archive.org/web/20120301205921/http://www.peterlife.ru/travel/saint-petersburg/petersburg-0901.html {{Use mdy dates, date=April 2013 Admiralteysky District, Saint Petersburg Historical areas of Saint Petersburg