Kolomna Municipal Okrug
Kolomna Municipal Okrug (Roushie: муниципа́льный о́круг Коло́мна) is a municipal okrug o Admiralteysky Destrict o the federal ceety o Saunt Petersburg, Roushie. Municipal okrug's population: 39,328 (2010 Census preliminary results);[1] 37,642 (2002 Census);[2]
History eedit
Scope eedit
The okrug borders the Neva River, New Admiralty Canal, an the Moyka River in the northwast, the Fontanka River in the sooth, an Kryukov Canal in the east.
Oreegin eedit
The dounset auries o futur Kolomna (the name is believit tae hae oreeginatit frae Roushifee'd names o survey pillars - columns) wis carriet oot efter the fires in 1736 an 1737 devastatit the Maritime an Admiralty settlement. Redounset o people from these settlements gave rise tae anither version o the name. Aiblins, in the reign o Anna o RoushieAnna Ioannovna the formation o the names coud influence the German leid, in translation, frae which the settler wur cried colonists, an the place they inhabitit - a colony that Roushie remade in its awn wey - Kolomna.
Occupation eedit
The first inhabitants o Kolomna wur mariners - artisans, pilots. Later thare settled merchants, sodgers, tradesmen an, wi few exceptions-poor gentry. The nummer o inhabitants in Kolomna continuously increased. In the middle o the 19t century, thare livit aboot 50 thoosan fowk in the mid 1890's - mair nor 70 thoosand, an the census o 1910 indicates the nummer o inhabitants o Kolomna - mair nor 85 thoosan.
Notable residents eedit
- On the watterfront o Kryukov Canal thare is a twa-story hoose #23. This hoose belangit tae Dmitri Ivanovich Khvostov, the nephew o the great Roushie militar commander Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. Alexander V. settled in this hoose. At hame, whaur he dee'd in 1950, foond a marble slab wi a bas-relief o Suvorov an text: "In this hoose 6 Mey 1800 dee'd the great Roushie militar leader Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov.
- Alexander Pushkin livit in Kolomna for three years in a hoose nummer 185. In the same house livit brilliant architect Carlo Rossi. He dee'd thare in 1849.
- At Shopping street, in the hairst o 1824 livit Alexander Griboyedov.
Airchitectur eedit
Teepical biggins eedit
The teepical hoose o the Auld Kolomna wad be a moderate firthen hoose wi a carvit ridge unner the ruif an firth carvins unner the windaes ,the perron wi steps an the stairs wi twa flicht o steps leadin tae the seicont floor.
Well-kent biggins eedit
- Garden Street
- Turgenev Square
- Inglis Embankment
- the Saunt Petersburg Synagogue
- New Holland
References eedit
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- ↑ Roushie Federal State Stateestics Service (21 Mey 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population o Roushie, Its Federal Destricts, Federal Subjects, Destricts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Admeenistrative Centres, an Rural Localities wi Population o Ower 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [Aw-Roushie Population Census o 2002] (in Roushie).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)