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The village of Komarovo (until 1948 – Kellomyaki) is located in the Kurortny district of St. Petersburg. Komarovo is a relatively new formation. Its history goes back a little over a century. Until the 1870s, life in the quiet villages of the Karelian Isthmus flowed unnoticed and monotonous. The development of the popularity of some and the oblivion of others was facilitated by the construction railway. In the autumn of 1870, regular traffic began between St. Petersburg and Vyborg. Trains continued through Rihimäki to Helsingfors. St. Petersburg residents began to quickly develop comfortable places to relax sea ​​shores Gulf of Finland.

By the beginning of the 20th century, a fairly large settlement had formed here, and in 1901 a platform was erected there, which received the status of a station a year later. At first the village was called Kellomäki, which translated from Finnish means “Bell Hill”. Legend has it that there was a bell here, the ringing of which would gather the workers who were building the station for lunch.

Yours modern name the village received in 1948 in honor of the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, botanist Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov.

In the period 1918-1940, Komarovo belonged to Finland. After the Soviet-Finnish War, the village passed to the USSR, and in 1941-1944 it was again occupied by the Finnish army. On June 10, 1944, during the Vyborg operation, the village was liberated and transferred to the USSR. In 1948, construction began on the village of academicians. Many outstanding scientists received comfortable dachas here, including A. Ioffe, V. Struve, V. Alekseev, V. Smirnov, S. Kozin, V. Fok, S. Kovalev, N. Altman, D. Likhachev and others.

In Komarov there were houses of creativity of theater figures and writers, dachas of the theatrical society and the Literary Fund. By the mid-1950s, from a war-torn village, Komarovo turned into a cozy and well-kept place where the creative Leningrad (and not only) intelligentsia rested. IN different years Y. German, A. Akhmatova, V. Panova, D. Shostakovich, I. Efremov, F. Abramov, V. Solovyov-Sedoy, A. Prokofiev, I. Brodsky, G. Kozintsev and others lived or visited here.

There is an equestrian club in the village, which provides the following services: lodging, accommodation of horses and riders during competitions, horse riding lessons, horse rental and others. In addition, horseback riding tours into the forest and to the Gulf of Finland are organized here.

Almost the entire village is located on upper terrace Gulf of Finland up to 30 meters above sea level. The climatic uniqueness is associated with the protection of the area from sea winds by a vast pine forest. Near the village, among the hills covered with forest, the picturesque Shchuchye Lake unfolds.

On the way to the lake you can see a small cemetery where outstanding figures of science and culture are buried, whose fate and work were in one way or another connected with their stay in Komarov. On March 10, 1966, the great Russian poetess A.A. was buried here. Akhmatova. Also in the cemetery you can see the graves of more than 40 academicians, including N.N. Petrova, A.P. Barannikov, M. Alekseev, M. Somov, A. Treshnikov, S. Merkuryev and others. In 1996, composer and musician S.A. was buried here. Kuryokhin, in 1999 – academician D.S. Likhacheva.

In the village there is a monument of cultural and historical heritage - a mass grave of soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War.

Beyond Morskaya Street to the border with the city of Zelenogorsk on both sides of the highway there is natural monument"Komarovsky coast".

In the village of Komarovo is located a large number of health facilities for children. For example, here is a children's psychoneurological sanatorium of the same name, specializing mainly in diseases of the nervous system.

The treatment used here is: hardware physiotherapy (muscle electrical stimulation, galvanization, diadynamic currents, electrosleep, ultrasound, electrophoresis of medicinal substances and others), balneotherapy (fresh, medicinal, pearl baths, mineral iodine-bromine, mineral sodium chloride, local hand, local foot, shower Charcot and others), heat therapy (ozokerite), various inhalations, natural therapy (apitherapy, hirudotherapy), psychological healing systems (color therapy, aromatherapy, biofeedback). Other types of treatment are also used: biofeedback, homeopathy, climate therapy, diet therapy, exercise therapy, drug therapy, massage, mechanotherapy, etc.

History of the village

The village of Komarovo is located in pine forest 44 kilometers northwest of the center of St. Petersburg. The history of the village goes back a little over 100 years. Until the 70s of the 19th century, life in the quiet villages of the Karelian Isthmus passed monotonously and unnoticed. The growth of popularity of some and the oblivion of others was facilitated by the construction of the railway. St. Petersburg residents began to quickly explore the life-giving and recreational shores of the Gulf of Finland.

Initially, the village was named Kellomäki, which translated from Finnish means “Bell Hill”. According to legend, there was a bell here, the sound of which would gather the workers who were building the station for lunch. However, in the artistic environment of St. Petersburg Komarovo, where numerous creative summer cottages of writers, artists, and composers are located, the etymology of the local toponym has become even more simplified.

The village is called “Mosquitoes”, putting a very specific meaning into this: there is still no way to save me from mosquitoes here. But in fact, the village was renamed in 1948 in memory of the outstanding Russian botanist Vladimir Komarov. The fact is that immediately after the end of the Great Patriotic War, a plot of pine forest was allocated for dachas of full members and corresponding members of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

At the same time, Komarov folklore also knows such an elegant formula of love, tenderness and admiration that any most fastidious seaside town could envy it. Smiling and joyful visitors to Komarovo beaches are the envy of everyone with a tan: “Morning in Komarovo.” It must be said that another local euphemism is distinguished by the same refined elegance, although from a completely different area. Following Anna Akhmatova, the local intelligentsia began to call the road to the Komarovskoe cemetery: “I won’t tell you where.” The poetess dropped this mysterious image back in 1958 in her “Seaside Sonnet.”

Over time, not only the best mathematicians and physicists, but also artists, painters, musicians, and writers began to settle in Komarovo. This created a special atmosphere of the village, which quickly became privileged. The very lifestyle that these people led, with their starched white tablecloths, long tea parties on the terrace and constant music playing, did not fit into big picture proletarian life. The village’s inhabitants themselves called it “the hostel of learned men” or “Akademyaki” (a humorous name for the village of academicians in consonance with Kellomyaki). But Komarovo, despite its elitism, was not a closed settlement. It has always been customary to receive guests here.

In the village there are houses of creativity of writers and theater workers, dachas of the Literary Fund and a theater society. By the mid-50s, from being destroyed by the war, it turned into a cozy and well-kept holiday village in which the Leningrad (and not only) creative intelligentsia vacationed. At different times, A. Akhmatova, Yu. German, D. Shostakovich, V. Panova, F. Abramov, I. Efremov, V. Solovyov-Sedoy, I. Brodsky, A. Prokofiev, G. Kozintsev, I. lived or visited here . Kheifitz and many others.

Writers adored their House of Creativity, despite the fact that in terms of comfort it resembled a provincial hotel of not the highest standard. But everyone had their own private room…

The cars chirped from morning until lunch. Residents of the village passing passing by, they automatically lowered their voice: “The authors create!” Life in Komarovo flowed smoothly and calmly. In the summer we rode bicycles. In winter - on a Finnish sleigh. We went to visit each other. They staged home performances. And they watched the lives of their famous neighbors with all their might. Fortunately, no one built solid fences then. The whole life of scientists and artists was in full view.

Country house the great physicist Ioffe stood on Kurortnaya - main street village The scientist could often be seen in a white shirt with a hoe in his hands. However, many brilliant men were engaged in weeding vegetable gardens at that time. Some of them were completely distinguished by extravagant behavior. For example, Academician Fok, who never parted with his hearing horn, loved to walk along the paths of the village arm in arm with his wife. Periodically they stopped and began to kiss with inspiration. Public
She was shocked, but didn’t show it. And the greatest mathematician, academician Vladimir Smirnov, when meeting even small children, took off his hat and bowed!

The same touching, incredibly modest person
remembered the great composer in Komarovo Dmitry Shostakovich. He had two dachas in the village. He rented the first one (at 18 Bolshoy Prospekt) and lived in it until the war. It was there that the famous 7th Symphony was composed, thanks to which Shostakovich received the status of the country's main composer. Few people knew then that he hated Soviet power with all his soul, was afraid of it, and was constantly waiting for arrest. The fear was especially strong in 1948, when mass “purges” began in the scientific and cultural environment. Critic Khentova recalls that one day, riding a bicycle past Shostakovich’s dacha, she saw him run out of the house with a completely crazy face and start running around the yard. Apparently, in this way Shostakovich tried to get rid of an obsessive nightmare - now they will come, knock on the door, arrest you.

Of all the Komarov residents, Shostakovich was friends only with the director Kozintsev, whose mother-in-law was imprisoned in the camp (the relatives of many scientific and cultural figures were then arrested, the authorities thus “insured” themselves against freethinking by taking their loved ones “as collateral”). Dmitry Shostakovich was strongly advised to live in Moscow, closer to the Kremlin, but he, despite all fears, remained in Komarovo, where in the early 50s his personal dacha was built - on the outskirts of the village, near the railway, in a pine forest.

Cemetery in Komarovo

Near the village, among the hills covered with forest, there is the picturesque Lake Shchuchye. On the way to it there is a cemetery where prominent figures of science and culture are buried, whose lives and activities were in one way or another connected with their stay in Komarovo. On March 9, 1966, A.A. was buried at the Komarovskoye cemetery. Akhmatova is a great Russian poetess. From this moment on, it becomes a landmark and a place of “pilgrimage”, sometimes it is even called “Akhmatovsky”. More than 40 academicians are buried here, including N.N. Petrov, A.P. Barannikov, M. Alekseev, M. Somov, A. Treshnikov, S. Merkuryev and others. Composer and musician S.A. was buried in 1996. Kurekhin., in 1999 academician D.S. Likhachev.

Not far from the railway, the brilliant actress Faina Ranevskaya often rested in a sanatorium. To the question: “How do you feel?” answered: “Like Anna Karenina!” Today, the only eccentric genius lives in Komarov - composer Oleg Karavaychuk. Resembling the old lady Shapoklyak, he always walks alone. The cashiers shout after him: “Citizen, you left the change!” And if someone, recognizing the musician, dares to say hello to him, they will hear in response: “Don’t bother!”
“Now for some reason it is customary to define an outstanding place, city, village by who lived in it. Pushkin lived in St. Petersburg, but Plato famously said that there are three values: what was created by God and nature, chance and, much worse, man. Komarovo is a place to which a miracle has given great opportunities. The harmony created by nature is always higher than the harmony created by man.

What Komarovo?! There is no Komarov at all. There is Kellomäki, a wonderful mountain, a hill until it was ruined, and next to it there is another hill, streams flowed, you can drink water, and Maxim Shostakovich ran nearby and also drank water. There was a creek delta on the bay, like a woman’s braids, it’s impossible to forget them. And nearby, the innate wisdom of a person was saved to build some kind of domino. Both Finns and Russians managed to decorate women's braids - streams, with ribbons, bows - dachas. Houses are in cities, but there should be dachas in nature. You have to be Bolsheviks or oligarchs not to feel anything and build houses and ranches over streams and cut down birch and pine trees so that the domina looks better, or turn trees into palm trees, cut off all the branches leaving the tops. And the secret is that the dachas fit in among the trees, bushes and flowers. Nature in nature. And that’s why Finnish poets, Finnish geniuses lived in Kellomäki. Russia's talent was getting closer to the Finns and would continue to get closer, and there was no need to talk about politics and there would be no need for Putin, everything would go on as usual. But the main thing is in the architecture of dachas. Windows and balconies are of great importance. Kachalov lived, Time lived, Ulanova came, Smoktunovsky came. Now think, if Ulanova gets up, Smoktunovsky from the grave? What? And they will enter a garden in which there is not a single tree, there are tiles all around, they will again lie down in the grave. In it (in the village) one could be resurrected and write works of genius.” (from an interview with Oleg Karavaichuk, 12/16/2005)

Today, Komarovo has largely lost the “academic” appearance it had in the 50s and 60s. Many dachas passed to the heirs of famous owners, or even to people far from science and culture. “New Russian” mansions are springing up here and there. The symbols of the new life were a cellular antenna reaching into the sky near the station and a restaurant on the shore. The current St. Petersburg public still loves to come to Komarovo - to visit the beach or take a walk to Lake Pike, stopping along the way to bow to Anna Andreevna.

Kelomyakki, Joseph Brodsky

I
Lost in the dunes taken from the Chukhna,
a town made of plywood, within whose walls you can barely sneeze -
A telegram flies from Sweden: “Be healthy.”
And no ax can chop wood
heat the room. On the contrary, different
I tried to warm the house with my back
the very winter and planted flowers
in the blue glass of the veranda in the evenings; and you,
as if preparing to escape and having found the azimuth,
I fell asleep there in wool socks.

II
Small, flat waves of the sea starting with the letter “b”,
very similar from a distance to thoughts about myself,
ran around the deserted beach
and froze into wrinkles. Dry jitters
sometimes forced the bare twigs of the hawthorn
the retina becomes covered with a pockmarked cortex.
And then seagulls appeared from the snowy darkness,
like corners bedraggled by no one's hand
a day as white as empty paper;
and for a long time no one lit the fire.

III
In small towns you recognize people
not in the face, but on the backs of long lines;
and the population lined up in single file on Saturday,
like a caravan in the desert, for sah. sand
or a herring net that made a hole in the budget.
IN small town usually eat
the same as the others. And distinguish yourself
it was possible from them only by copying from the ruble
the spire of the Kremlin, tapering towards the star,
or - seeing your things everywhere.

IV
Despite all this, they were strong,
those abandoned matchboxes
with two or three dishes rattling in them;
raw heads. And, feeding the sparrow,
the whole family looked at him through the window,
where the trees also merged into one in the evenings
ebony trying to outgrow
the sky - which happened around six o'clock,
when the book slammed and when
All that was left of you was your lips, like those of that cat.

V
This outward generosity, this one for that matter;
gift, growing cold inside, exude warmth
outside, brought the guests closer to the housing,
and winter considered the sheet on the line to be her linen.
This stifled conversations; laughter
creaked loudly, leaving traces like snow,
covered with frost, like pine needles, edges
pronouns and turning "I"
into a crystal that shimmered with solid turquoise,
but melted after your tear.

VI
Did all this really happen? and if so, why?
now awaken the peace of these former things,
remembering the details, adjusting pine to pine,
imitating - often successfully - that light in a dream?
Those who believe are resurrected: in angels, in roots (forest);
What did the Kelomäkki know, except for rails?
and schedules of iron things, whistling
emerging from oblivion five minutes later
and dissolved in him, greedily swallowing the tin,
the thought of love and having time to sit down?

VII
Nothing. Quicklime of winter spaces, your own food
picking up from deserted suburban platforms,
left them under the weight of pine paws
present in a black coat, whose drape,
more durable than Cheviot,
protected there from the future and from
of the past is better than a smoky glass - buffet.
There is nothing more permanent than black;
this is how letters appear, or the “Carmen” motif,
This is how opponents of change fall asleep dressed.

VIII
Don't open that door with the key anymore
with an intricate beard and not include the shoulder
electricity in the kitchen to the delight of the cucumber.
This birdhouse outlived the starling,
cumulus and cirrus herds. In terms of time, there is no "then":
there is only “there”. And “there,” straining his gaze,
memory wanders through the rooms in the twilight, like a thief,
rummaging through closets, dropping a novel on the floor,
putting his hand in his pocket.

IX
You can nod and admit that it's a simple lesson
Lobachev's runners were of no use to the landscape,
that Finland is sleeping, hidden in his chest
dislike for ski poles - now, guess what?
made of aluminum: better, apparently, for the hands.
But you can no longer tell from them how bamboo burns,
can’t imagine a palm tree, a tsetse fly, a foxtrot,
parrot's monologue - or rather, that
kind of parallels, where naked, since - edge
light, walked like a savage, Maclay.

X
In small towns, storing belongings in basements,
like other people's photographs, they don't hold cards -
even playing ones - as if putting a limit
the attacks of fate on the defenselessness of bodies.
There are wallpapers; and locality
we usually free them from external fetters
so successfully that the smoke rushes back
return to the pipe, do not let the façade down;
what leaves those merged into one
a white spot behind.

XI
It is not necessary to remember the name of you, me;
A blouse is enough for you and a belt is enough for me,
to see in the trellis (that is, to give to the blind),
that namelessness suits us just right,
as a result, all living things disappear from the face of the earth
erased by the silent “pli” of all cells.
Things have limits. Especially their length,
inability to move. And our right to
"here" extended no further than on a clear day
a shadow falling like a wedge into the snowdrifts

XII
woodshed. Looking into a different landscape
we will assume that this sharp wedge is ours
common elbow extended outward,
which neither you nor me
neither bite nor, even more so, kiss.
In this sense, we merged, although the bed
didn't even creak. For she is now
a whole world where there is also a door on the side,
who definitely heard a ringing somewhere -
good only for getting out.

1980

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Do it in one day: guide to the village of Komarovo

A week before the second one, I’ll go to Komarovo... But even in one day you can do a lot. We tell you which famous dachas in Komarovo are worth a visit, why you should take mosquito spray with you, and who Brodsky called the local “tramp queen.”

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The village of Komarovo, and in the past - Kellomäki, although located 44 kilometers from St. Petersburg, is still part of it, as it is part of the Resort district of the city. The village received its name in 1948 in memory of V.L. Komarov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences. After all, in the 40-50s, dachas were built here and handed over to members of the Academy of Sciences.

However, now another name for the village is heard - Mosquitoes. Explanations are unnecessary: ​​bloodsuckers are visible and invisible here.

How to get there:

Train: to the Komarovo station from the Finlyandsky station (travel time 55 minutes) or from the Udelnaya railway station (travel time 40 minutes).

Bus: from metro station Black River"bus No. 211 (travel time - 1 hour 20 minutes).

Route taxi: K-400 from Finlyandsky Station, K-305 from Staraya Derevnya and K-680 from Prospekt-Prosveshcheniya (travel time - about an hour).

What to see:

In Komarovo there are dachas of the Literary Fund and theatrical figures, preserved from those times, although they have fallen into disrepair for the most part.

We advise you to definitely include in your route where representatives of the Leningrad intelligentsia are buried, including: Anna Akhmatova, Ivan Efremov, Vsevolod Azarov, Irina Zarubina, Dmitry Likhachev and other figures of art and science.

By the way, Anna Akhmatova spent the end of her life in the village of Komarovo in a tiny house received from the Literary Fund, as the poetess herself called her home. Interestingly, nearby are the dachas of critics who at one time got rich from persecuting Anna Andreevna. In Komarovo, Akhmatova was visited by Lydia Ginzburg, Faina Ranevskaya, and Lydia Chukovskaya.

Brodsky, Rein, Naiman and Bobyshev were also frequent guests in the “booth of the tramp queen” - as Akhmatova was called for her regal bearing and constant change of residence.

Now two families of writers live in Akhmatova’s house, completely unrelated to the poetess. At one time there was talk about creating an Akhmatova Museum here, but the director of the Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House replied that “this does not seem appropriate, since it would require significant financial costs to ensure security, fire and anti-terrorism security” (Kommersant, 02/28/2005).

It’s also worth a look, the exhibition of which will introduce you to three periods in the history of the village, namely: the Silver Age, the Finnish emigrant period, and Soviet times.

"Look with a weary eye at the Baltic wave"

By the way, it is one of the most popular on the entire coast of the Resort area. There is parking, changing cabins, a children's playground, and several cafes. But Rospotrebnadzor does not recommend swimming here: the chemical indicators here do not meet the norm. And sunbathing - please, it’s not for nothing that in the 50s the phrase “Morning in Komarov” was popular in local folklore, meaning the tan of summer residents and intellectuals.

Last year, the first one opened in Komarovo, the length of which is about three kilometers and includes wooden decks, benches for rest and information boards. The trail runs through a spruce forest and reaches the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Along the way you can see the famous Komarovsky anthills the size of a man, a littorina ledge and cascades of ponds left over from the landscape park from the last century. Entrance to the trail is from Morskaya Street.

Where to eat:

Mostly all cafes and restaurants are located on the coast. Plus: beautiful view, minus - steep prices. Particularly popular are those with views of the bay and interior in Provence style.

The song of the same name by Igor Sklyar brought unprecedented fame to this small village in the 1980s. However, neither the rocks nor the abyss, which are sung about in the song, are not here.

The residence of the Governor of St. Petersburg is located in the village of Komarovo.

Today Komarovo has almost lost the “academic” appearance it had in the 50s and 60s. Many dachas were passed on to the heirs of famous owners, and in some places modern cottages are already springing up. If you haven't been here yet, you should hurry up.

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Komarovo(until 1948 - Kellomäki, from Finnish Kellomäki - bell slide) - a village in Russia, intracity municipality as part of the Kurortny district of the city federal significance St. Petersburg.

The Academic Town includes Academician Komarova Street, three Kurortny Lanes, and Academician Street, located along Kurortnaya Street from the side of the city of Zelenogorsk. Many famous figures of science and art lived in the Academic Town.

There was also a Writers' Town in Komarov - a part of Komarov towards the Gulf from the railway, closer to Repin, where members of the Writers' Union were given plots allocated to the Literary Fund for construction. During the construction of the children's neurological sanatorium "Komarovo", part of the dachas along with the forest were demolished.

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Like most villages located on the Karelian Isthmus near the railway, Kellomäki developed rapidly at the beginning of the 20th century thanks to the dacha boom. Railway platform was opened here in 1901, and in 1903 it was transformed into the Kellomäki station, which was inaugurated on May 1. This day is considered the birthday of the village of Komarovo. Before the arrival of the railroad, this area was completely uninhabited. It was then called “Hirvisuo”, which means “Elk Swamp” located nearby. Nearby there was a hill where a bell was hung between the pine trees, the ringing of which called the workers to dinner. The builders nicknamed this place “Bell Hill”, in Finnish - “Kellomäki”. By 1916, there were already about 800 dachas in the village. The layout of the plots was drawn up in advance, which excluded chaotic development. According to the 1916 census[ source not specified 90 days], 10,000 Russian-speaking people of various nationalities lived on the territory of the village: Karelian-Finns, Ingrian Finns, Russians and others. Streets received Russian-language names. Among famous people who vacationed in Kellomäki before the revolution were Matilda Kshesinskaya, Carl Faberge, Georges Bormann, Gabriel Baranovsky. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a theater called the Ritz, where visiting theater troupes gave performances. In the village in 1908-1917. there was a Holy Spiritual Orthodox Church, which was destroyed by fire.

In 1913, the famous Russian battle painter, draftsman, master of reportage drawing and Kellomyak summer resident Vladimirov, Ivan Alekseevich, commissioned by the Kellomyak fire brigade, of which he was a member, drew a map holiday village Kellomyaki with an alphabetical list of dacha owners. The names of the people who lived here are preserved on the map. The granddaughter of the artist Batorevich, Natalia Igorevna, preserved the original map and the artist’s family archive.

The famous speech therapist Augustin Karlovich Reiche founded a “sanatorium for stutterers” in Kellomäki.

Since 1909, a two-story red brick Russian four-year school for 300 students operated in the village, which after the murder of P. A. Stolypin was named after him. Later (in 1920-1939) this building housed a special sapper company of the former Kexholm regiment. A Finnish folk school was also opened in 1917. There was a voluntary fire brigade in the village for which there was a fire station on Peterburgskaya Street, which had premises for an amateur theater that gave performances in the summer. The extensive garden planted by Zering was famous, where apple, pear, and plum trees grew. Next to the garden was the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit (architect N.N. Nikonov). Among the enterprises were a timber exchange and the Hallenberg factory, founded in 1903, which produced peat litter. Peat was mined in two nearby swamps, one of which was called the “Factory Swamp” (Tehtaansuo). The plant had a sawmill and a mill. There were two weaving workshops in the village, one of which was founded by Otto Auer, who for many years was the Consul General of Finland in Leningrad, but lived in Kellomäki.

In 1914, a small stop called Kanerva (heather) was built between the Kellomäki and Kuokkala stations. When the number of summer residents sharply decreased, the stop was closed.

After the declaration of independence of Finland, the development of holiday villages on the Karelian Isthmus slowed down. By the beginning of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939, 167 families were permanently living in Kellomäki. In the 1920s, the property of former Russian owners who left their homes was sold at auction; many dachas were dismantled and transported to other areas of Finland. About 800 dachas were left without owners, almost 600 of them were sold, 200 buildings were transported to Järvenpää (near Helsinki). Academician I.P. Pavlov, Russia’s first Nobel laureate, continued to live in the village in Popov’s mansion. He settled here from 1922 to 1936.

After Civil War In 1918, a regiment transferred from Kexholm was stationed in Kellomäki. In 1920, it was disbanded and the 1st Scooter Battalion was founded in its place, which was then renamed the 1st Jaeger Battalion and was stationed in Terijoki. After this, the former Russian school in Kellomäki housed a special Sapper Company until the outbreak of the Winter War.

Until 1939, the village of Kellomyaki was part of the Terijoki volost of the Vyborg province. The civilian population of the village was completely evacuated by the Finnish authorities for security reasons during the period of aggravation of relations with the USSR in October 1939.

In the spring of 1940, the village of Kellomyaki received the first Soviet settlers from Leningrad.

In 1941, with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet population left Kellomäki. From September 1941 to early June 1944, units of the 10th Infantry Division of the Finnish Army were stationed in the area of ​​the village. There was also a secret battery of Durlyakher’s long-range guns, which was intended “for firing at the forts of Kronstadt,” but did not take any serious part in the hostilities. On June 10, 1944, units of the 109th Infantry Division under the command of Major General N.A. Trushkin occupied Kellomäki. At the end of the war, the village of Kellomäki again received Soviet settlers.

On the territory of the village there is a monument to the Cultural and Historical Heritage of the Kurortny District of St. Petersburg - a mass grave of soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, Leningradskaya St., 9.

Sanatorium-resort complex

1 "Komarovo" Socialisticheskaya st., 2a Children's neurological sanatorium

2 "Komarovo" Bolshoy pr., 15 Children's neurological sanatorium. Department "Mother and Child"

3 “Zarya” Leningradskaya st., 28 Branch of the boarding house

4 "Komarovo" st. Otdykha, 6/29 Holiday House. Clinic of Dr. Klyus

5 St. Petersburg Department of Writers Kavaleriyskaya st., 4/4 House of Creativity

6 "Giprobum" st. Otdyha, 3 Territory of the recreation center

7 “Baltiets” Shchuchye (lake, Komarovo) Recreation center

8 “Pioneer” “White Nights” st. Artilleristov, 2 Recreation center (family)

9 Union of Theater Workers "Komarovo" st. Lieutenantov, 31 House of Rest and Creativity

10 "Komarovo" st. Otdyha, 4 Equestrian club

11 “Olympian” Sports and Youth Sports School Morskaya st., 48 Sports and recreational camp

Under the name "Komarovo"

On October 14, 1945, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted a resolution “On the construction of dachas for full members of the USSR Academy of Sciences.” An area was allocated to the west of railway station, on which it was prescribed to build 25 dachas and transfer them “free of charge into personal ownership” to members of the Academy of Sciences. One of the dachas was intended for the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, botanist V.L. Komarov, who died on December 5, 1945 (buried in Moscow). This fact was probably taken into account, and during the campaign for a total renaming settlements Karelian Isthmus[ source not specified 1285 days], which unfolded in 1948, the village was renamed in honor of Komarov.

IN Soviet years Dmitry Shostakovich, Anna Akhmatova, President of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Nikolai Anichkov, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Rector of Leningrad State University Kirill Kondratyev, People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Cherkasov, composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, many academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences, science fiction writers Ivan rested in Komarov Efremov, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the writer and screenwriter Yuri German with his son Alexei, a future film director, and then Evgeny Schwartz rested at the dacha at Morskaya 20.

In Komarov there is a cemetery, the basis of which is the Komarovsky necropolis. This cemetery has become world famous; the following people are buried there:

• Nathan Altman - artist
• Anna Akhmatova - poet
• Veniamin Basner - composer
• Natalya Bekhtereva - neurophysiologist
• Gennady Gor - writer
• Ivan Efremov - science fiction writer, paleontologist
• Andrey Krasko - Russian actor
• Sergey Kuryokhin - composer, leader of the musical group “Pop Mechanics”
• Dmitry Likhachev - philologist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Vera Panova - writer
• Victor Reznikov - composer
• Yuri Rytkheu - writer
• Mikhail Somov - scientist
• Viktor Tregubovich - film director
• Joseph Kheifits - film director

and other figures of culture, science, art (see those buried at the Komarovskoye cemetery).

Shchuchye Lake is located three kilometers from Komarov.

On the territory of the village near the bay there is a natural monument, the Komarovsky Coast.

The dacha, located at 15 Bolshoy Prospekt on the territory of the children's neurological clinic (60° N, 30° E) (formerly the dacha of General Voronin, estimated date of construction 1900, wooden), is a monument of cultural and historical heritage regional level of protection based on the decision of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council dated December 5, 1988 No. 963.

In Komarov there is the residence of the Governor of St. Petersburg (Morskaya St. 14), which is a monument of federal significance. The territory of this dacha also included the former dacha of the Russian and Soviet artist Ivan Vladimirov, who lived there since 1910.

Residents communicate with each other quite formally. Here is how Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin describes his visit to the dacha of academician Ioffe Abram Fedorovich:

One day Danin, Daniil Semyonovich, came from Moscow and begged me to go to Abram Fedorovich. It seems that Danin was then working on the book “The Inevitabilities strange world"about the history of atomic discoveries. It was in Komarov. I made an agreement through Lazarus Stilbans, one of Joffe’s favorite students. And we went to his dacha, where I had already been. The whole evening Abram Fedorovich talked about his meetings with Rutherford, Bohr, Einstein - it was all so interesting that we sat down in the dining room and did not get up, we hardly saw the plot and the dacha... One should not think that Abram Fedorovich’s Komarov life was so boring. On one of my visits, he showed us a fox and fox cubs living on his property. This family has established some kind of relationship with the academician’s family.

There Granin gives a description of the nature of Komarovo:

When in the 50-60s we began to spend the summer months in Komarov, these places were full of animals. There were foxes and hares. A lynx lived not far from our dacha. Sasha Yashin and I went to the capercaillie current. In the morning the bird noise did not let me sleep. On our site, woodpeckers were knocking, squirrels were scurrying around, they were running funny along the fence pickets. A whole flock of jays has settled in. Tits made nests under the roof. Since then, year after year, forest life has thinned out. Somewhere the living creatures began to disappear. Now the forest is completely empty. He wasn't knocked out. He still comes close to the dacha, but it is empty. No birds, no squirrels, he is quiet and silent. Blueberries, mushrooms, lingonberries grow, everything seemed to be in order, only the dull desert separates this dacha area from the Karelian forests. Too many people, too many cars, too much music. The forests have lost their voices and inhabitants.

IN last years village, famous memorable places(Komarovsky Necropolis, dachas of the Literary Fund, including Anna Akhmatova’s dacha, Chizhovsky park with a cascade system of ponds (Villa Reno), Finnish farm late XIX century), was subjected to chaotic development. To preserve the historical value of the village, local residents and the deputies sent an appeal to the governor of St. Petersburg with a request to grant the village the status of “remarkable”, since it will help “preserve in unity all this diversity of cultural and natural manifestations.”

Komarovo in art

Komarovo became known throughout the former USSR in the 1980s thanks to the song of the same name by Igor Nikolaev and Mikhail Tanich performed by Igor Sklyar.

For a week, until the second
I'll go to Komarovo

But neither the real rocks nor the abyss that are sung about in the song are here.

Immediately after the war, until her transfer to Moscow, G.S. Ulanova often came to Komarovo, where she lived on the corner of 2nd Dachnaya and Kosaya. As before, the village remains a summer cottage for outstanding figures of art, science, literature, cinema, etc. The “First Mathematician” L.D. Faddeev lives in the village.

Natalia Galkina’s novel “Villa Reno,” published in St. Petersburg in 2003, attracted widespread attention to the village. The fantastic plot of this work takes place in Komarovo.

The afterword to this book says:

...now in the context of the mythology ... of the fantastic Petersburg of Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bely - the novel “Villa Reno” with the theme of the Karelian Isthmus, continuing the traditions of classical Russian literature, enters.

Here the Strugatsky brothers came up with their “Zone” - a kind of mirror that shows a person his true face. Here Daniil Granin wrote the novel “Picture” about the moral problems of life.

Joseph Brodsky in Komarovo St. Petersburg

August 7, 1961- in the “Booth” in Komarov, Rein E. B. introduces Brodsky to A. A. Akhmatova.

Early October 1961- went to Anna Akhmatova in Komarovo together with his friend Sergei Shultz (later a writer and historian of St. Petersburg).

June 24, 1962- on Akhmatova’s birthday he wrote two poems “A. A. Akhmatova” (“The roosters will crow and crow…”) from where she took the epigraph “You will write about us diagonally” for the poem “The Last Rose”, as well as “Behind the churches, gardens, theaters...” and the letter. Published in: About Anna Akhmatova: Poems, essays, memoirs, letters, ed. M. M. Kralin (L.: Lenizdat; 1990, pp. 39-97). In the same year he dedicated other poems to Akhmatova. Morning mail for Akhmatova from the city of Sestroretsk (“In the bushes of immortal Finland...”).

Autumn and winter 1962-1963- Brodsky lives in Komarov, at the dacha of the famous biologist R.L. Berg, where he works on the cycle “Songs of a Happy Winter.” Close communication with Akhmatova.

In conversations with her, simply by drinking tea or, say, vodka with her, you quickly become a Christian - a person in the Christian sense of the word - than by reading relevant texts or going to church. The role of the poet in society comes down to this to a large extent.

Meeting Academician V. M. Zhirmunsky

For two days he sat opposite me on the chair on which you are now sitting... After all, our efforts are not without reason - where has this been seen, where has this been heard?, so that a criminal can be released from exile for a few days to stay in hometown?.. Inseparable from his former lady. Very good-looking. You can fall in love! Slender, ruddy, skin like a five-year-old girl... But, of course, he won’t survive this winter in exile. Heart disease is no joke. (L. Chukovskaya, Notes…., p. 279)

Brodsky and Mikhail Ardov spent a long time looking for a place for Akhmatova’s grave, first in the cemetery in Pavlovsk at the request of Irina Punina, then in Komarov on their own initiative.

She just taught us a lot. Humility, for example. I think... that in many ways I owe my best human qualities to her. If not for her, it would have taken them longer to develop, if they had appeared at all.