Petro-Slavyanka

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PETRO-SLAVYANKA, a municipal unit within the Kolpinsky District, on the Slavyanka River, at the Kuzminka River inflow; also a train station along the Saint Petersburg - Moscow line. As of 2001, the population totalled 1,200 people. Petro-Slavyanka neighbours the Rybatsky Industrial Zone on the northwest. It emerged in 1851 as a railway settlement during the construction of the Saint Petersburg - Moscow Railway. In the 1930s, a Bolshevik state farm was formed there. In 1951, Petro-Slavyanka officially became an urban settlement.

Е. А. Bondarchuk, P. Y. Yudin.