Until the beginning of the 20th century, logging was carried out here. This swampy area was called Hirvisuo, which translated from Finnish meant Moose Swamp. On a dry hill, the workers hung a bell, which was struck when it was time for lunch.
When the railway passed through these lands, the construction of a settlement called Kellomyaki – Kolokolnaya Gorka began at a rapid pace. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were already 10 thousand inhabitants here. Matilda Kschessinska, Georges Bormann, and Carl Faberge came here on vacation. The village had a theater, a school, a sanatorium, a peat extraction factory, and weaving workshops.
After these lands were ceded to Finland, the village fell into disrepair, and units of the Finnish army were stationed here, although no serious fighting was conducted. In June 1944, units of the Soviet army entered Kellomaki.
In 1945, by order of the government, cottages for scientists were built here, one of which was intended for the President of the Academy of Sciences V.L. Komarov. But Komarov died in December of the same year, and the village was renamed Komarovo.
The Komarovsky necropolis is a small cemetery for great people, it appeared at the beginning of the XX century. Famous scientists, literary and artistic figures are buried in the cemetery. On March 10, 1966, Anna Akhmatova was buried at the Komarovsky cemetery.
Pike Lake (Haukiyarvi) is a unique natural reservoir located at an altitude of 37 meters above sea level, in a hollow characteristic of the Ice Age. It is located on the Karelian Isthmus in the village of Komarovo.
Famous people who lived in the village of Komarovo: poets Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Olga Bergholz, Alexander Prokofiev.
Writers Daniil Granin, Fedor Abramov, Olga Forsh, Yuri German, Vera Panova, Sergei Dovlatov, Leonid Panteleev, Viktor Konetsky, Ivan Efremov, the Strugatsky brothers.
Writers Daniil Granin, Fedor Abramov, Olga Forsh, Yuri German, Vera Panova, Sergei Dovlatov, Leonid Panteleev, Viktor Konetsky, Ivan Efremov, the Strugatsky brothers.
Theater and film figures Georgy Tovstonogov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Evgeny Lebedev, Alexander Volodin, Evgeny Schwartz, Daniil Alshits (D. Al), the Boyarsky clan, Galina Ulanova, Elizabeth Time, Nikolai Akimov, Joseph Heifitz, Nadezhda Kosheverova, Andrey Moskvin, Grigory Kozintsev, Friedrich Ermler.
Composers and musicians Dmitry Shostakovich, Oleg Karavaichuk, Boris Klusner, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, Sergey Kuryokhin; artists Nathan Altman, Alexander Samokhvalov, Leonid Kiparisov and many others.
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