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Kolpino

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Kolpino 

a city in Leningrad Oblast, RSFSR, under the jurisdiction of the Leningrad city soviet. Kolpino is located on the Izhora River (a tributary of the Neva). Railroad station, 26 km southeast of Leningrad. Population, 81,000 (1972). Industries include metalworking and machine building. The city has a building materials combine, a mica-processing factory, and a machine-casting plant. Kolpino has an evening branch of the Northwest Correspondence Polytechnic Institute and a metallurgical technicum. Kolpino arose in the early 18th century and became a city in 1912.



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The firm reportedly has begun construction on a 12 hectare-site near Kolpino.
Mr James Johnston, principal engineer at the Admiralty yards at Kolpino, on the River Neva, near St Petersburg, resigned at once when the state of war was announced.
 
 
 
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