Metallostroy, settlement

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METALLOSTROY, an urban settlement within the Kolpinsky District of Saint Petersburg, and a station along the Oktyabrskaya Railway. As of 2001, the population count was 23,700 inhabitants. Metallostroy was founded in 1931 over the course of the construction of the Kolpino Small Metallurgy Plant, and originally known as the Lenmetallurgstroy settlement. The plant fired up its first melting furnaces in 1933, plant construction was gummed up in 1935, and the Aviation Plant, which produced Il-2 battle-planes, was built on the premises in 1939. In 1939, the settlement was also incorporated within the borders of the Ust-Izhora settlement. In 1941, plant workers formed a fighter battalion. In 1945, the Electrophysical Equipment Science and Research Institute was set up here, specializing in the development of atomic and nuclear particle accelerators, as well as high-capacity lazers and lazer technologies. In 1946-60, the Leningrad Electrical Engineering Plant was built on the basis of Lenmetallurgstroy. In 1952, the settlement became part of the Kolpinsky District, and was assigned its present name and status in 1964. Metallostroy has 23 industrial enterprises, including the Novaya Sila (New Power) Open Joint-Stock Society and the High-end Installations Plant Closed Joint-Stock Society; it also includes seven kindergartens, three schools, a night school, music and art schools, the Mayakovsky Palace of Culture, the Electrophysical Equipment Science and Research Institute's Scientists' House, the Electrophysical Equipment Science and Research Institute's Sports Palace, the Iskra Stadium, the Izhora Hotel, and a library. The USTIZH newspaper is published in Metallostroy. A memorial was erected in 1974 at the Bratskoe Cemetery for Soldiers Fallen in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

References: Наш Металлострой: Сб. СПб., 2001.

L. D. Burim. Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich
Наш Металлострой. Сб. СПб., 2001