Gatchina is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Gatchinsky District, about 45 kilometers south-southwest of Saint Petersburg. First documented in 1499 as Khotchino, it was granted town status in 1796 and was renamed Trotsk from 1923 to 1929 and Krasnogvardeysk from 1929 to 1944, and occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944 under the name Lindemannstadt. It is best known as the site of the Great Gatchina Palace, a former imperial residence whose palace and historic center form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site designated in 1990 as part of the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments; a 2025 estimate put its population at 91,514, the largest town in Leningrad Oblast, and it hosts the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Sources
1. Gatchina (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 91,514 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 59.56841, longitude 30.122892
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 100 m
P2046 (area)
area 28.75 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 91514 (2025)
View the Source2. Wikidata: Gatchina
- Wikidata Q7436, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Wikidata Q7436 P1249, class allow-list match, knownqid pass (w-bbfill-geography5-0926)
P1249 value year 1500
View the SourceGatchina (Wikipedia)
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
On Continent: Europe
Gatchina (Russian: Га́тчина, IPA: [ˈɡatːɕɪnə]) is a town and the administrative center of Gatchinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
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