Kamenka (Vyborgsky district)

The name of the village comes from Lake Kaukjärvi (the modern name Beauty ). Archaeological materials indicate the existence of settlements on the shores of the lake already in the III millennium BC. e.

Finland

Kaukjärvi was first mentioned in 1348 in connection with the acquisition of the surrounding lands by the Swedish king Magnus Ericsson .

Kaukjärvi was the largest village in the Uusikirkko parish and consisted of several smaller villages located almost close to each other. After the construction of the railway, a country boom swept the land on the Karelian Isthmus . In Kaukjärvi there were summer cottages of many famous Petersburgers. Since the 19th century , in the southeastern part of Kaukjärvi there has been a Russian holiday village Bobochino , which had its own church and an Orthodox cemetery. In Bobochino, in particular, A.S. Suvorin , K.F. Ordin , A. Keibel rested . Now Bobochino territory is almost completely built up with buildings of the military town of Kamenka.

Since the XIX century, part of the territory of Kaukjärvi was used as a summer artillery camp. To service the landfill, a special railway line was even built from Perkjärvi station ( Kirillovskoye since 1948), from which only a mound has been preserved.

Before the Winter War of 1939-1940, the village of Kaukjärvi was part of the Uusikirkko Volost of the Vyborg Province of Finland . Part of the village was part of the Kuolemajärvi parish.

By the end of 1939, there were a total of over 200 residential buildings in Kaukjärvi.

Years of War (1939-1944)

The village was burned by retreating Finnish troops. After the announcement of the outbreak of the war on November 30, 1939, the villagers were evacuated , and special units of the torchbearers passed through the deserted houses, following the order of the command to destroy all residential buildings. This forced measure deprived the advancing units of the Red Army of the possibility of placement in warm rooms.

When the Finnish troops regained their territories at the end of August 1941, the state of the housing stock in Kaukjärvi was as follows: only one house was suitable for housing in the village of Taamala, 13 in Kelola, 2 in Leistola, the rest of the villages practically ceased to exist. The population that returned from the evacuation during three war years managed to restore their homes, but in June 1944 they had to be left for the second time ^[2] .

USSR

Soviet immigrants began arriving shortly after the end of hostilities on the Karelian Isthmus. Probably the most suitable for living was the village of Kiskola, which housed the Lensnabugol subsidiary farm. In 1948, the workers of this organization had to come up with a new name for their village - “Streams”. Nevertheless, a few months later, by decision of higher authorities, the Kiskola village was again renamed Vladimirovka (in memory of Lieutenant A.F. Vladimirov, whose grave was near the village). Later, the village of Kiskola ceased to exist, and the name Vladimirovka was transferred to a new building that occupied the lands of the former villages of Talpola, Kokkola and Hanniloya. In the winter of 1948, by the decision of the executive committee of the Raivolovsky district council, Bobochino retained its previous name, but a few months later this decision was changed and the village was renamed Kamenka. All renaming was fixed by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of January 13, 1949 ^[2] .

In 1948, a plot of 19 597.5 hectares was again transferred to an artillery range , but now the Leningrad military district of the USSR.

According to 1990, the village of Kamenka was part of the Polyansky village council ^[3] .

In 1997, 5158 people lived in the village, in 2007 - 5523 ^{[4] [5]} .

• The history of some settlements of the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region