Pushkin, Saunt Petersburg
| Pushkin (Scots) Пушкин (Roushie) |
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| - Municipal toun[citation needit] - | |
Catherine Palace |
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| Coordinates: 59°44′N 30°23′E / 59.733°N 30.383°E | |
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| Municipal toun Day | June 24[citation needit] |
| Admeenistrative status | |
| Kintra | Roushie |
| Federal subject | Saunt Petersburg |
| Municipal status | |
| Representative body | Municipal Council[citation needit] |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 201 km2 (78 sq mi)[citation needit] |
| Population (2010 Census, preliminary) |
92,721 inhabitants[1] |
| Population (2002 Census) | 84,628 inhabitants[2] |
| Densitie | 461 /km2 (1,190 /sq mi)[3] |
| Time zone | [4] |
| Founded | 1710 (1808)[citation needit] |
| Postal code(s) | 196600[citation needit] |
| Dialin code(s) | +7 812[citation needit] |
| Offeecial wabsteid | |
Pushkin (Roushie: Пу́шкин) is a municipal toun in Pushkinsky Destrict o the federal ceety o St. Petersburg, Roushie, locatit 24 kilometers (15 mi) sooth frae the center o St. Petersburg proper,[5] an its train station, Detskoye Selo, is directly connectit bi railway tae the Vitebsky Rail Terminal o the ceety. Population: 92,721 (2010 Census preliminary results).[1]
Pushkin wis foondit in 1710 as an imperial residence namit Tsarskoye Selo an receivit status o a toun in 1808. The first public railways in Roushie, Tsarskoye Selo Railways, wur opened here in 1837 an connectit the toun tae the caipital St. Petersburg. Efter the Roushie Revolution, the toun wis renamit tae Detskoye Selo (meanin Childer's Veelage). Its name wis further chyngit in 1937 tae Pushkin tae commemorate the 100t anniversary o the daith o the Roushie poet Alexander Pushkin. The toun contains an ensemble o the 18t century "Tsarskoye Selo". This museum complex includes the Catherine Palace, Alexander Palace an ither biggins an associatit pairks; it is a major tourist attraction o the aurie an is includit in the leet o monuments protectit bi the UNESCO.[6]
Sister cities [edit]
Pushkin is twinned with the following sister cities:[7] Template:Colbegin
Athens, Greece
Annapolis, Unitit States
Bitola, Macedonie, syne 2005
Brunswick, Germany
Valance, Fraunce, syne 2010
Valdai, Roushie, syne 2000
Weimar, Germany
Versailles, France
Worcester, Unitit States, syne 1987
Glasgow, Unitit Kinrick
Grunwald, Germany
Dzyaotszo, Cheenae
Zielona Gora, Poland
Ivrea, Italy
Imatra, Finland
Heraklion, Greece
Kalamazoo, Unitit States, syne 1992
Cambrai, Fraunce, syne 2003
Cumbria, Unitit Kinrick
Castel Goffredo, Italy
Kerava, Finland
Corfu, Greece
Lappeenranta, Finland
Lahti, Finland
Loukhsky Destrict, Republic o Karelie, Roushie, syne 1999
Mantua, Italy, syne 1993
Nassau Coonty, United States, syne 1996
Novopolotsk, Belaroushie, since 2003
Neukölln, Germany, syne 1991
Nürtingen, Germany
Ogano, Japan, syne 1999
Olyokminsk, Roushie, syne 1997
Aalborg, Denmark, syne 1976
Rethymnon, Greece, syne 1996
Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, syne 1995
Stratford-upon-Avon, Unitit Kinrick
Tarragona, Spain, syne 1997
Tulcea, Romanie
Heinola, Finland, syne 1997
Zerbst, Germany, syne 1994
Szczecin, Poland
References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Предварительные итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года (Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census). Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Retrieved on 9 Februar 2012. .
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Правительство Российской Федерации. Постановление №725 от 31 августа 2011 г. «О составе территорий, образующих каждую часовую зону, и порядке исчисления времени в часовых зонах, а также о признании утратившими силу отдельных Постановлений Правительства Российской Федерации». Вступил в силу по истечении 7 дней после дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Российская Газета", №197, 6 сентября 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011 On the Composition of the Territories Included into Each Time Zone and on the Procedures of Timekeeping in the Time Zones, as Well as on Abrogation of Several Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation. Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication.).
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedbse - ↑ Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments - UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Whc.unesco.org. Retrieved on 2011-03-11.
- ↑ Пушкин, Царское Село, Pushkin, Tsarskoe Selo, Tsarskoye Selo. Pushkin-town.net. Retrieved on 2011-03-11.
Freemit airtins [edit]
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