Kirovsk (Leningrad region)
Located on the left high bank of the Neva, near Lake Ladoga (pier), 33 km east of St. Petersburg. The Nevdubstroy railway station. Near the city is the federal highway M18 "St. Petersburg - Murmansk", crossing the Neva along the Ladoga bridge.
The city was founded in 1929 as the village of Nevdubstroy during the construction of the GRES (since 1943 - S. M. Kirov GRES, now the 8th GRES) on the left bank of the Neva, after the name of the nearest village Nevskaya Dubrovka.
Since 1953 - the city of Kirovsk, named after Sergei Kirov (1886-1934), whose name is associated with the initiative to build this large power plant at that time.
Near the city there is a museum-reserve “Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad”, created on the places of fierce battles for Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. The reserve includes a diorama dedicated to the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad (built in the der). Maryino in 1985), the memorial complex "Nevsky Pyatok", Sinyavinsky Heights, the historical place of the breakthrough of the blockade (meeting of soldiers of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts on January 18, 1943).
