Kudrovo

Kudrovo (Russian: Ку́дрово) is a town in Vsevolozhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located east of and immediately adjacent to the city of St. Petersburg. Formerly a village, it was granted town status on 29 June 2018.^[2] As of the 2021 census, Kudrovo was home to 60,791 inhabitants.^[6]

Kudrovo Кудрово
Town[1]
Location of Kudrovo
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Coordinates: 59°54′N 30°31′E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Leningrad Oblast[1]
Administrative district	Vsevolozhsky District[1]
Settlement municipal formation	Zanevskoye Settlement Municipal Formation[1]
Founded	1885
Town status since	2018[2]
Municipal status
• Municipal district	Vsevolozhsky Municipal District[3]
• Urban settlement	Zanevskoye Urban Settlement[3]
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK [4])
Postal code(s)[5]	188692, 188689, 188693
OKTMO ID	41612155005

History

In 2010, the population of the village was just over 100. Subsequently, intensive high-rise residential construction started, and apartments were sold to individuals who had jobs in nearby Saint Petersburg. The infrastructure lagged considerably behind this development.^[7] There is no industry or large-scale infrastructure in Kudrovo.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated, together with the urban-type settlement of Yanino-1 and a number of rural localities, within Vsevolozhsky District as Zanevskoye Settlement Municipal Formation.^[1] As a municipal division, Zanevskoye Settlement Municipal Formation is incorporated within Vsevolozhsky Municipal District as Zanevskoye Urban Settlement.^[3]

Economy

Transportation

Ulitsa Dybenko station, a metro station of the Saint Petersburg Metro, is located less than a kilometer from the western boundary of Kudrovo. Buses connect Kudrovo with this station. Kudrovo is separated from Saint Petersburg by a railway line, which does not have passenger traffic.