Peniki

Peniki (Russian: Пе́ники, tr. Péniki, IPA: [ˈpʲenʲɪkʲɪ] (listen), Finnish: Penikkala[1]) is a rural locality (a village) in Lomonosovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is a part and the administrative center of Penikovskoye Rural Settlement.

Peniki Пеники Penniki (Russian: Пѣнники) (before 1920s), Penikkala[1] (Finnish)
Village
Flag Coat of arms
Etymology: From Finnish penikka – “a puppy”
Coordinates: 59°55′03″N 29°38′31″E
Country	Russian Federation
Oblast	Leningrad Oblast
District (raion)	Lomonosovsky District
Rural Settlement	Penikovskoye Rural Settlement or Peniki Rural Settlement
Population  (2010)[2]
• Total	1,207
Time zone	UTC+03:00
Zip Code	18853
Website	peniki47.ru

Name of the village

The village is known since the 19th century. The description of poverty of country folks and profiteering of the local Orthodox priest Vasily during the Emancipation Reform of 1861 in the Russian Empire has been preserved.[3] The priest often report about the peasants, so the landlords knew all about their faults.[3]

At these time, a manor was also built here since the owner engaged in the breeding of scent hounds and selling puppies. This was where the name of the town came from - Peniki (Penniki, Penikkala), which is from the Finnish word penikka, which means “a puppy.”

Climate

The climate in the village of Peniki is close to a cool temperate climate with moderately warm summers and moderately cold winters. Under the Köppen climate classification, Peniki is classified as Dfb, a humid continental climate. Its winters are warmer than Moscow's due to the Gulf of Finland. The Gulf of Finland is located just 1 km from the center of the village. The average maximum temperature in July is 22 ℃ (71.6 ℉), and the average minimum temperature in February is −10.5 ℃ (13.1 ℉). Average annual precipitation is 669 millimeters (26.338 in) per year.[4]

Climate data for Peniki

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Daily mean °F	23.0	24.1	32.7	46.0	59.5	68.5	71.6	68.2	57.6	45.9	34.3	27.7	46.7
Average low °F	13.1	13.1	20.3	31.6	41.7	51.4	55.2	52.9	44.8	36.3	27.5	18.7	33.8
Average precipitation inches	1.57	1.22	1.41	1.45	1.61	2.48	2.99	3.26	2.95	2.67	2.51	2.16	26.338
Daily mean °C	−5.0	−4.4	0.4	7.8	15.3	20.3	22.0	20.1	14.2	7.7	1.3	−2.4	8.2
Average low °C	−10.5	−10.5	−6.5	−0.2	5.4	10.8	12.9	11.6	7.1	2.4	−2.5	−7.4	1.0
Average precipitation mm	40	31	36	37	41	63	76	83	75	68	64	55	669.0
Source: Climate-Data.org[4]

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History

The village of Peniki on the map of 1885.

The village of Peniki on the map of 1939.

Thus, the territory of the Lomonosov district of the Leningrad region (including the territory of the modern Peniki) was the property of Sweden. It was the historical region of Ingria in the period of 1617–1721. Then the territory was returned to Russian Empire.

The village of Peniki is marked on the Semi-topographical map of 1810.[5]

On the “Topographic Map of the Neighborhoods of Saint Petersburg” of the Military Topographic Depot of the General Staff of 1817, the village of Peniki is mentioned. It further provides that in Peniki were 16 households.[6]

The village of Peniki with 16 households is also mentioned on the “Topographical map of the environs of St. Petersburg” by Friedrich von Schubert in 1831:[7]

Peniki is a village which belongs to the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the number of inhabitants by the revision: 44 males, 48 females (1838 year).[8]

As indicated in the explanatory text to the ethnographic map of Saint Petersburg Governorate by P. I. Köppen of 1849, it is recorded as the village of Penikkala (Penniki, Peniki) and indicates the number of its inhabitants for 1848: Ingrians-Äyrämöisets – 11 m., 15 f., Ingrians-Savonians – 16 m., 17 f., Izhorians – 32 m., 33 f., total population is 124 people.[9]

In 1860, the village of Peniki had 25 households.[10]

On the map of 1863 the village is marked as Penniki, but on the map drawn in 1925, the name Peniki started being used.

By 1913 the number of households increased to 35.[11]

According to the topographic map of 1939, the village had 70 households.

By ethnic nationality, the overwhelming majority of the village population after the year 1942, were Russians. The indigenous population – Izhorians and Ingrians - were deported and repressed by Stalin. Presently, however, they are fully assimilated in Russian society.

Geography

The village is located in the northern part of the area near the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, to the west of the city of Lomonosov. and to the east of the village of Bolshaya Izhora. The distance to the raion center is 9 km.[12] It is also 2 kilometers away from the nearest railway station in Bronka.[13]

Demography

Communications infrastructure

The Peniki village has two Internet service providers (ISP) providing high-speed Internet. These are Viartcom and Freedom House. Telecommunication is also available and the telephone dialing code of the village is [phone] (+7 – Russian country calling code, 813 – Leningrad Oblast code).

Transportation

There is a bus transportation available (buses № 691 and № 691A). In addition to bus transportation, there is a fixed-route taxi K-502 (Lomonosov→Malaya Izhora→Peniki→Dubki→Bolshaya Izhora and Bolshaya Izhora→Dubki→Peniki→Malaya Izhora→Lomonosov). A part of the Saint Petersburg Ring Road (the western half-ring) also passes through the territory of the Penikovskoye Rural Settlement.

References

1. P. Mikkonen, M. Kahla, I. Kempinen, A. Charnaya (2006). Venäjän federaation paikannimiä [Place names of the Russian Federation] (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki. p. 180. ISBN 952-5446-18-2.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. "Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года. Ленинградская область" [Results of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census. Leningrad Oblast.]. Управление Федеральной службы государственной статистики по г. Санкт-Петербургу и Ленинградской области (Russian Federal State Statistics Service of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast). Archived from the original on July 25, 2017. Retrieved March 18, 2018. (RAR archive)
3. Ломоносов — История города [Lomonosov – History of the City] (in Russian).
4. Климат: Пеники (in Russian). Climate-data.org. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
5. Семитопографическая карта окружности С. Петербурга и Карельского перешейка 1810 года [Semi-topographical map of the circle of St. Petersburg and the Karelian Isthmus of 1810] (in Russian).
6. «Топографическая карта окружности Санкт-Петербурга» на 16 листах в масштабе 1 в. в 1 дм или 1 : 42 000, Военно-топографическое депо Главного штаба, 1817 г. (in Russian)
7. «Топографическая карта окрестностей Санкт-Петербурга», снята под руководством генерал-лейтенанта Шуберта и гравирована при военнотопографическом депо. 1831 год. (in Russian)
8. Описание Санкт-Петербургской губернии по уездам и станам [Description of the Saint Petersburg Governorate by uyezds and stans] (in Russian). 1838. p. 142.
9. Köppen P. von. Erklarender Text zu der ethnographischen Karte des St. Petersburger Gouvernements. – St. Petersburg, 1867 – P. 39, 73. (in German)
10. Карта Санкт-Петербургской губернии. 1860 г. [Map of the Saint Petersburg Governorate. 1860 year.] (in Russian).
11. «Карта района манёвров» 1913 г. (in Russian)
12. Административно-территориальное деление Ленинградской области. – Лениздат, 1990, ISBN 5-289-00612-5, P. 85
13. Сост. Т. А. Бадин, ed. (1966). Административно-территориальное деление Ленинградской области (PDF) (in Russian). Leningrad: Lenizdat. p. 149. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2013.

External links

• Media related to Peniki at Wikimedia Commons
• Official site of the Peniki Rural Settlement (in Russian)