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'''We wuz Kingisepp''' ({{lang-ru|Ки́нгисепп}} or {{lang|ru|Кингисе́пп}}; {{lang-fi|Jaama}}<ref name=hs>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Last+of+the+Ingrian+grannies+hold+on/1329104265831 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-03-14 |archive-date=2012-09-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910035441/http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Last+of+the+Ingrian+grannies+hold+on/1329104265831 |url-status=dead }}</ref>), umwhile '''Yamburg''' ({{lang|ru|Я́мбург}}), '''Yam''' ({{lang|ru|Я́м}}), an '''Yama''' ({{lang|ru|Я́ма}}), is an auncient [[teeps o inhabitit localities in Roushie|toun]] an the [[admeenistrative centre]] o [[Kingiseppsky Destrict]] o [[Leningrad Oblast]], [[Roushie]], locatit alang the [[Luga River]] {{convert|110|km|sp=us}} wast o [[Saunt Petersburg|St.&nbsp;Petersburg]], {{convert|20|km|sp=us}} east o [[Narva]], an {{convert|49|km|sp=us}} sooth o the [[Guwf o Finland]]. Population: {{ru-census|p2010=48,488|p2002=50,295|p1989=49,954}}

==History==
===14t century===
The toun wis first documentit in 1384, when the [[Novgorod Republic|Novgorodians]] unner [[Patrikas]] biggit thare a fortress against the Swades.<ref name=bernadsky /> Thay cried it Yama or '''Yamsky Gorodok''' efter the [[Ingrie]] (ethnic [[Finnic fowks|Finnic]] group) name Jaama.<ref name=hs />  The environs o the toun are still citit as the main location o speakers o the nearly extinct [[Ingrie leid]]&nbsp;[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=izh]. The citadel athstuid sieges bi the [[Teutonic Knichts]] in 1395 an durin the 1444-1448 war.

===16t century===
The toun became the maist important economic centre o the ''[[Votes|Vodskaya]] pyatina'' o the republic. Thare wur 201 hamesteads in the 15t century in the toun; its tot population can anerlie be evaluatit roughly based on the estimates o 3-5 bodies per hamestead.<ref name=bernadsky>{{cite book|title=Новгород и новгородская земля в XV веке (''Novgorod and the Novgorod Land in 15th century'')|last=Bernadsky| first=Viktor Nikolayevich|year=1961|publisher=published by the [[USSR Academy of Sciences]]| location=Leningrad ([[Saunt Petersburg]])|pages=123–124}}</ref> At the end o the [[Livonie War]], it wis cedit tae [[Swaden]], anerlie tae be returned twal years later, in 1595.

===17t century===
Follaein the [[Treaty o Stolbovo]], it again passed tae the Swades, who kept the name which in Swadish orthografie became ''Jama'' or ''Jamo''. The tounship wis completely destroyed bi Roushie airmies durin the war o 1656–8, efter which anerlie the citadel remained intact. It is questionable whether the tounship, wi its exclusively Roushie tounsfowk, iver recovered.

===18t century===
[[File:Kingsobor.jpg|thumb|Yamburg's St.&nbsp;Catherine Cathedral wis biggit in 1764-1782 tae a late Baroque design bi [[:en:Antonio Rinaldi (architect)|Antonio Rinaldi]]]]

In 1703, the citadel wis finally taken bi the Roushies in the course o the [[Great Northren War]] (it wis first held bi the Roushies for a month in late 1700). On 14 Mey 1703, Yam wis renamit Yamburg<ref name="official_history">{{cite web|title=Кингисепп - официальный сайт Администрации МО Кингисеппское городское поселение - История|url=http://www.kingisepp-mo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=76&Itemid=369|publisher=Официальный сайт Администрации|accessdate=10 September 2010|language=Russian|archive-date=2014-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303204029/http://www.kingisepp-mo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=76&Itemid=369|url-status=dead}}</ref> (a German version o the name). Five years later, [[Peter the Great]] grantit the toun tae [[Alexander Menshikov]] in his capacity o the Duke o [[Ingrie|Izhora]]. In 1780, Catherine II re-appruivit wi some chaynges a previously existin coat o airms.<ref name="official_history" /> Toun status wis grantit in 1784.

===20t century===
====Roushie Ceevil War====
[[Vladimir Lenin]] reportitly stayed in Yamburg in Januar 1919, when he ordered the [[Bolshevik]] troops tae retak the toun o [[Narva]] frae [[Maavägi|Estonie forces]].<ref>{{cite news
|title=Allies Repulse Reds' Attack At the Dvina
|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-01-29/ed-1/seq-3/
|accessdate=10 September 2010
|newspaper=[[New York Tribune]]
|date=29 January 1919}}</ref> In October 1919, the [[Anti-Bolshevism|anti-Bolshevist]] commander, General [[Nikolai Yudenich]] captured Yamburg, which markit the beginnin o the push bi the [[White Airmy|Northwastren White Airmy]] towards [[Saunt Petersburg|Petrograd]].<ref>{{cite news
|title=Push on Petrograd Marked by Taking of Russian Town
|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88078751/1919-10-14/ed-1/seq-1/
|accessdate=10 September 2010|newspaper=The Democratic Banner
|date=14 October 1919
|agency=[[Ohio Historical Society]]
|location=[[Columbus, OH]]|page=1}}</ref> Housomeivver, the [[Bolshevik]]i consequently re-captured Yamburg on 14 November 1919.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Bolsheviki Grain Near Petrograd
|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-11-15/ed-1/seq-4/
|accessdate=10 September 2010|newspaper=New York Tribune|date=15 November 1919
|agency=[[Library of Congress]]
|location=Washington, DC
|page=4
}}</ref> On 16 November 1919, The forces o General Yudenitch wur "croudit thegither in a sma space near Yamburg", "in a serious state o disorganisation", reportit [[The New York Times]] at the time.<ref>{{cite news|title=Yudenitch a Refuge? Bolshevist Commander Said to Have Arrived in Esthonian Capital.|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EEDA153BEE32A25750C2A9679D946896D6CF|accessdate=10 September 2010|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 November 1919|page=7}}</ref>

====Name chynge====
The German form o the toun name wis retained till 1922, when the [[Bolsheviks]] renamit it in honour o the [[Estonie]] [[Communism|Communist]] leader [[Viktor Kingissepp]]. It shoud no be ramfeeselt wi the [[Estonie]] toun o [[Kuressaare]], umwhile ''Kingissepa'' (1952-1988).

====Kingisepp–Gdov Affensive====
{{Main|Kingisepp–Gdov Affensive}}

On 1 Februar 1944, the [[:en:list of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–1957#101 - 110 Divisions|109th Rifle Diveesion]] captured Kingisepp, forcin the [[:en:18th Army (Wehrmacht)|German 18t Airmy]] intae new poseetions on the eastren bank o Narva.<ref name=glantz>{{cite book|author=David M. Glantz|title=The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944|url=https://archive.org/details/battleforleningr00glan|publisher=University Press of Kansas|location=Lawrence|year=2002|isbn=0-7006-1208-4}}</ref>

==Internaitional relations==
{{Main|Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Roushie}}

===Twin touns an sister ceeties===
Kingisepp is [[twin touns an sister ceeties|twinned]] wi:
*{{Flagicon|Estonia}} [[Jõhvi Parish]], [[Estonie]]
*{{Flagicon|Norway}} [[Narvik]], [[Norawa]]
*{{Flagicon|Germany}} [[Sassnitz]], [[Germany]]
*{{Flagicon|Finland}} [[Raisio]], [[Finland]]

==References==
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==Freemit airtins==
*[http://fortress.vif2.ru/list/yamburg/ traces o Jama citadel]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{ru icon}}
*[http://www.esosedi.ru/onmap/krepost_yamburg/1374975/index.html Jama citadel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218212757/http://www.esosedi.ru/onmap/krepost_yamburg/1374975/index.html |date=2012-02-18 }}

{{Leningrad Oblast}}
{{Major fortresses o Wastren Roushie}}

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[[Category:1384 establishments]]
[[Category:Populatit places established in the 13t century]]