Nikolsky, Leningrad region. Districts of the Leningrad Region

The settlement Nikolskoe (Leningrad region) in 1990 received the status of the city. The whole history of the settlement is connected with the construction of St. Petersburg, with the peasants-settlers, who in the number of 4720 people. By order of Peter I arrived here in 1710 from the Moscow (Mozhaisk region) and some other central provinces of Russia.

What gave the name of the village

The town of Nikolskoye (the Leningrad region includes several dozens of this type of municipal formations) occupies an area of 1,444 hectares and is located in the north of the Tosno District. The name of this given settlement was received thanks to the icon of Nikolai the Wonderworker, brought by the peasant-stonemasons, who was placed in the built wooden chapel. The Wonderworker is the epithet of the saints, especially famous for the gift of intercession in response to a prayer for them. In the Christian religion, these saints are revered especially.

Very common name

Because of the narrowness in 1718, the chapel was dismantled, and in its place a wooden church was erected in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The village of settlers grew and changed its status. In Russia, there are many churches and temples erected for the glory of this saint, as well as the settlements that bear his name. For example, Nikolskoe (Enotayevsky district) of the Astrakhan region, the same-named village of the Dolzhansky district of the Orel region, the village of Nikolskoe-Zheltukhino, and finally, the Nikolsky (Leningrad region) we are considering. The listed settlements are a small fraction of a large number of the same cities, villages, rural and urban settlements. Therefore, when it comes to some Nikolsky, it is necessary to indicate the area to which it belongs.

All for construction

So, the village of Nikolskoe (Leningrad region) arose 40 versts from the under construction of St. Petersburg and for a long time was called the plate breaking.

Here, they extracted and processed the butane slab and burned lime, turning it into cement. Generally speaking, this village, with the bricklayers and bricklayers who settled here, could well be called a building complex: the amount of work on the production of basic and auxiliary materials for the construction of St. Petersburg here was great.

Church Shrines

According to local legends, there used to be wastelands of Kazola and Merkele (seaside), Swedish settlements, on the site of which a Russian village grew and a church was built for the glory of Nicholas the Wonderworker, who is, among other things, the patron saint of seamen. In addition to the image brought from Russia, several faces with the relics of the saints, especially revered in Russia, were donated to this church. With the advent of the temple, the village received the official name - Nikolskoye. In those days it belonged to Shlisselburg Uyezd.

Historical places

The settlement stretched for two versts along the right bank of the Tosna River, and on its left bank there were state-owned factories for the production of lime, cement, bricks and roofing tiles. The professionalism of the Nikolsky workers provided permanent well-paid orders.

The village expanded, but a solid stone church was built only in 1817. It should be noted that the village of Pustynka, which is 2.5 versts from the church, belonged to Count Tolstoy. Presumably, in the territory that now occupies the city of Nikolskoe (Leningrad region), even in ancient times there were Russian settlements. Such conjectures are explained by the fact that treasures with coins of the coinage of the times of Ivan the Terrible were found here.

The new owner

A new impetus to the development of the village of Nikolskoe was received after the purchase of it in 1876 by Colonel Boris Ivanovich Wiener, who, being an excellent specialist from the age of 25, opened a private powder factory in the lands of the village of Nikolsky in 1877, later named Ekaterininsky, in honor of The name of his wife. The opening of the plant of this profile became possible only thanks to the resolution (1876) of Alexander II, which allowed non-state enterprises to return to this industry after a 50-year break. The production of the child of Wiener was of the highest quality and was often awarded international awards.

New industries

In pre-revolutionary times, the Nikolskoye settlement of the Leningrad Region was famous for the Sablinsky glass factory of M. Frank and Co., whose products were known throughout Russia. The glass empire of Frankov possessed immense capital and constantly expanded production. The list of products was great - except for pressed, here the window glass was made, wavy, Bemsky, "monie", corrugated (ribbed).

And also the cathedral, photographic, porthole. In addition, the production of dishes, glass prisms and bricks, glass for paintings, round glass for glasses, decorative glass ornaments was established. In addition, there was a paper and cardboard factory in Nikolsky and a brick factory. Thus, at the beginning of the XX century it was a large industrial center.

The post-war period

But the revolution and wars completely destroyed the industry of this region, most of Nikolsky and the church for the glory of Nicholas the Wonderworker.

After the war, the towns and villages, including Nikolskoye, began to recover actively, sometimes practically from scratch. In 1958, several villages - Pustynki, Perevoz, Zakhozhye, Voskresenskoe and the Druzhny branch of the Telmanovsky sovkhoz - merged with Nikolsky and formed a working village, as the residents became workers of the rebuilt factories.

In the local quarries found quartz sand. Gradually, industry revived and reached the most rapid growth in the 80s. At the initiative of residents, the number of which by 1995 increased by 19 thousand, the status of the village is changed to "urban". And everything would be fine, but "dashing nineties" came. Industry and construction in the city froze. But now, since the first years of the XXI century, everything is blossoming again, new microdistricts are emerging.

Territorial structure of the Leningrad Region

As noted above, the city of Nikolskoe is the administrative center of the town of the same name, which borders on other similar administrative-territorial units. Districts of the Leningrad Region in the amount of 17 units, together with the city district "Sosnovoborsky", form the constituent entity of the Federation, which is part of the North-West District. On the territory of the region there are municipalities (which are part of the districts, but have their own self-government bodies), the city district and the city of Lomonosov, which belongs to St. Petersburg, which has federal significance.

All districts of the Leningrad Region are municipal, with 61 urban settlements and 142 rural settlements. Nikolskoye urban settlement, formed in 2006, is part of the Tosnensky district. To the municipal entity, in addition to the settlement we are considering (20,500 inhabitants) belong to the village at the Pustynka station, as well as Gladkoe and the village of the same name.

Literary patrimony

The village of Pustynka is forever immortalized by the writer Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, whom she inherited in 1850. According to contemporaries, it was here, along with the Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, that he invented Kozma Prutkov. Here he wrote many other novels, including "Prince Serebrenniy" - a work included in the trilogy of Russian tsars. On a visit to the classics there was a whole color of literary Russia - Turgenev, Goncharov, Fet. Especially loved these places and praised them in verse by the Russian poet and thinker Vladimir Soloviev. It should be noted that in the Russian Museum there is a landscape dedicated to Nikolsky, stretched on the banks of Tosna.

Elite settlements

Absolutely every city in Russia now has a cottage community. Nikolsky in this respect is no different from its counterparts. As a rule, these settlements are built in the most beautiful and ecologically clean regions. In the Leningrad region, where there are both sea and forest, there are plenty of such areas, and therefore elite settlements grow like mushrooms after the rain.

All of them have the necessary infrastructure, they are provided with an entrance, security is attached. The cottage village "Nikolskoe" is in both Tosnensky and Gatchina districts.