Upper colony

The villages of Upper Colony and Middle Colony have been known since 1810 as settlements of German colonists invited by Alexander I to raise agriculture in the suburban area of St. Petersburg ^[2] .

On the “Topographic map of the environs of St. Petersburg” of the Military Topographic Depot of the General Staff of 1817, a village called Colonists and a brick factory with it are mentioned ^[3] .

On the map of the St. Petersburg province of F. F. Schubert of 1834, the Strelinsky colony and the adjacent New Strelinsky colony are indicated ^[4] .

STRELINSKAYA - the colony belongs to the Office of the Economic Department of the Ministry of the Interior, the number of inhabitants under the audit: 131 m., 132 g. n. In this:
a) Lutheran wooden church in the name of Saints Peter and Paul.
b) A rural school located in a wooden structure ^[5] (1838)

The Strelinsky colony is marked on the map of Professor S. S. Kutorgi in 1852 ^[6] .

STRELINSKAYA - a colony of State property, on a country road, the number of yards - 28, the number of souls - 170 m. ^[7] (1856)

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  Plan Strelinsky colony. 1860

According to the “Topographic Map of Parts of the St. Petersburg and Vyborg Provinces” in 1860, the Strelinsky colony numbered 40 peasant households, and the New Strelinsky colony - 12 ^[8] .

STRELINSKAYA - a German colony (divided into two parts Neudorf and Neuhausen) by the river Strelka, the number of yards - 28, the number of inhabitants: 232 m., 206 railways. P.
The church is Lutheran. School ^[9] . (1862 year)

In 1885, the New Strelinsky colony numbered 40 yards ^[10] .

In the XIX century, the colony was part of the Konstantinovsky volost of the 1st camp of the Peterhof district of the St. Petersburg province, at the beginning of the XX century - of the 2nd camp.

By 1913, the number of yards in Strelinsky colony increased to 130 ^[11] .

According to the data of 1933, the village village council of the Leningrad Prigorodny district included the villages Strelinsky Upper and Strelinsky Lower ^[12] .

According to data from 1966, 1973 and 1990, the village was called Upper Colony and was part of the Factory Village Council ^{[13] [14] [15]} .

In 1997, 42 people lived in the village of Upper Colony of the Zavodskaya volost, in 2002 - 45 people (Russians - 85%) ^{[16] [17]} .

In 2007, 38 people lived in the village of Upper Colony of the Gorbunkovsky Joint Venture , in 2010 - 120, in 2012 - 47 people ^[18] .

The village is located in the north-eastern part of the district on the highway 41K-011 ( Strelna - Gatchina ), north of the administrative center of the village of Gorbunki .

The distance to the administrative center of the settlement is 4 km ^[18] .

The distance to the nearest train station Strelna is 2 km ^[13] .

The village is located on the right bank of the Strelka River.

Youth, Solar ^[24] .