Suoranda

According to the authors of the local history book “Vsevolozhsk”, I. V. Wentsel and N. D. Solokhin, the village arose even before the Northern War , during the Swedish rule ^[2] , however, in the lists of settlements, Suoranda appeared only at the end of the XIX century ^{[3 ]} .

SUORANDA - repair, near the village of Khirvosty, on the land of the Ilyins; 8 yards, 16 m. P., 15 g. n., a total of 31 people .; adjacent to the village. (1896) ^[4]

In the XIX - early XX centuries, the village administratively belonged to the Koltush volost of the 2nd camp of the Shlisselburg district of St. Petersburg province .

SUORANDA - village of the Bor village council, 17 households, 51 souls.
Of these: Russian - 4 households, 14 souls; Ingrian Finns - 4 households, 9 souls; Suomi Finns - 9 households, 28 souls; (1926) ^[5]

According to a topographic map of 1931, the village numbered 13 yards .

According to administrative data of 1933, the village of Suoranda belonged to the Koltush Finnish National Village Council ^[6] .

SUORANDA - village of Koltushsky village council, 133 people. (1939) ^[7]

From April 14, 1939 to March 20, 1959, the village was part of the Krasnogorsk Village Council ^[8] .

In 1940, the village numbered 10 yards ^[9] .

In 1942, the Finnish population of the village of Suoranda was completely deported ^[10] .

In Suorand there is a mass grave of soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union N. Kh. Rzhavsky is buried in it, a street in Suorand is named after him. Yakov Alexandrovich Henkin , an engineer-economist and prominent Leningrad photographer of the 30s, is also buried in it.

Earlier, on the western outskirts of the village, where the Koltush Upland turns into a marshy lowland, there were peat barracks, peat was mined, hence the Finnish name of the village. Now, after draining the swamps, sand is being mined, leading to dehydration of the village ^{[11] [12] [13]} .

In 1958, the population of the village was 649 people ^[14] .

According to the data of 1966, 1973 and 1990, the village of Suoranda was part of the Zanevsky Village Council ^{[15] [16] [17]} .

Since 1996, mountain bike ^[18] and cross-country skiing ^[19] competitions have been regularly held in Suorand .

In 1997, 442 people lived in the village, in 2002 - 474 people (Russians - 76%), in 2007 - 417 ^{[20] [21] [22]} .

Today, Suoranda and Hirvosti are actually a single settlement - only Central Street separates them [1] .

The village is located in the southwestern part of the district on the 5th kilometer of the Koltush highway (highway 41K-079 ( St. Petersburg - Koltushi )).

Located on the Koltush Upland .

The distance to the administrative center of the settlement is 8 km ^[22] .

The distance to the nearest railway station Zanevsky Post is 7 km ^[15] .

Local streets: Koltushskoye Shosse, Nagornaya, Novaya, New Quarry, Podgornaya, Podgorny deadlock, Rabozhaya, Rzhavskogo, Lane Rzhavskogo, Middle, Builders, Central, School ^[23] .

Active cottage construction is underway in the village ^[24] .

An unauthorized landfill is organized near the village ^[13] .