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. The priest often report about the peasants, so the landlords knew all about their faults. 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, 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 ℃, and the average minimum temperature in February is −10.5 ℃. Average annual precipitation is 669 millimeters per year.
History
Thus, the territory of the Lomonosov district of the Leningrad region 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. 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. 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:
Peniki is a village which belongs to the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the number of inhabitants by the revision: 44 males, 48 females.
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 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. In 1860, the village of Peniki had 25 households. 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. 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. It is also 2 kilometers away from the nearest railway station in Bronka.
There is a bus transportation available. In addition to bus transportation, there is a fixed-route taxi K-502 . A part of the Saint Petersburg Ring Road also passes through the territory of the Penikovskoye Rural Settlement.
