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Kingisepp
Kingisepp (English); Кингисепп (Russian)
— Inhabited locality —
; Kingisepp museum
	; Location of Leningrad Oblast on the map of Russia
	; Location of Kingisepp on the map of Leningrad Oblast
	Coordinates: 59°22′N 28°36′E / 59.367°N 28.6°ECoordinates: 59°22′N 28°36′E / 59.367°N 28.6°E
; Coat of arms	; Flag
	Administrative status
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Leningrad Oblast
In administrative jurisdiction of	Leningrad Oblast[citation needed]
Administrative center of	Kingiseppski District[citation needed]
	Municipal status
Mayor[citation needed]	Viktor Evaldovich Gashele[citation needed]
	Statistics
Population (2002 Census)	50,167 inhabitants
- Rank	326th
Time zone	MSK/MSD (UTC+3/+4)
Founded	1384[citation needed]
Postal code(s)	188455—188456[citation needed]
Dialing code(s)	+7 81375[citation needed]
Official website	http://www.kingisepp-mo.ru/

"Yamburg" redirects here. For other uses, see Yamburg (disambiguation).

Yamburg's St. Catherine Cathedral was built in 1764-1782 to a late Baroque design by Antonio Rinaldi.

Kingisepp (Russian: Ки́нгисепп or Кингисе́пп), formerly Yamburg (Я́мбург) and Jama (Я́ма), is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies along the Luga River, 137 km west of St. Petersburg, 20 km east of Narva, and 49 km south of the Gulf of Finland. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 50,295.

The town was first documented in 1384, when the Novgorodians built there a fortress against the Swedes.^[2] They called it Yama or Yamsky Gorodok after a Finnic tribe which lived in the area^{[citation needed]}. The environs of the town are still cited as the main location of speakers of the nearly extinct Ingrian language [1]. The citadel withstood sieges by the Teutonic Knights in 1395 and during the 1444-1448 war. The town became the most important economic centre of the Vodskaya pyatina of the republic. There were 201 homesteads in the XV century in the town; its total population can only be evaluated roughly based on the estimates of 3 to 5 persons per homestead.^[2] At the end of the Livonian War, it was ceded to Sweden, only to be returned twelve years later, in 1595. Following the Treaty of Stolbovo, it again passed to the Swedes, who kept the name which in Swedish orthography became Jama or Jamo. The township was completely destroyed by Russian armies during the war of 1656–8, after which only the citadel remained intact. It is questionable whether the township, with its exclusively Russian townspeople, ever recovered.

In 1703, the citadel was finally taken by the Russians in the course of the Great Northern War (it was first held by the Russians for a month in late 1700) and renamed Jamburg (a German version of the name). Five years later, Peter the Great granted the town to Alexander Menshikov in his capacity of the Duke of Izhora. The German form of its name, however, was retained until 1922, when the Bolsheviks renamed it after the Estonian Communist leader Viktor Kingissepp. It should not be confused with the Estonian town of Kuressaare, formerly Kingissepa.