Tsarskoe Selo

Tsarskoe Selo meaning Tsar's village (Russian: Ца́рское Село́) was renamed Pushkin by the Soviet Union, and is today a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the city of St Petersburg, Russia, located 24 kilometers (15 miles) south of the center of St Petersburg, and its railway station, still named Tsarskoe Selo, is directly connected by railway to the Vitebsky Rail terminus in the city. Its population (2010) is 92,889 (Census).

Pushkin was founded in 1710 as an Imperial residence named Tsarskoe Selo and received the status of a town in 1808. It contains several palaces of the Imperial family and others, all confiscated by the Bolsheviks. In recent decades much restoration work has been carried out on these buildings.