Belyje Berega

Urban-type settlement Belyje Berega Белые Берега Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Urban district Bryansk Founded 1868 Urban-type settlement since 1932 population 9,642 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 4832 Post Code 241902 License Plate 32 OKATO 15 401 675 Website www.belber.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 13 '  N , 34 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 12 '45 "  N , 34 ° 39' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

Belyje Berega ( Russian Бе́лые Берега́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Bryansk Oblast in Russia with 9,642 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place lies in the middle of the extensive Brjanskije lessa forests on the left bank of the Sneschet , a left tributary of the Desna . The river is dammed up there to the small Belobereschskoje reservoir.

Belyje Berega is the territory of the Rajons Brjanski surrounded, but itself belongs to the urban district of Oblastzentrums Bryansk . It is subordinated to the administration of the southeast Bryansk city district Fokinski and is located about 15 km east of its center.

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  Culture house

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  Art school

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  Bryanskaya GRES thermal power station

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  Paper mill

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  railway station

history

The place was created in 1868 as a station settlement around a station on the newly opened railway line Oryol  - Bryansk - Vitebsk . The name - literally "White Shores" (in the plural ) - was derived from the Russian Orthodox monastery Belyje Berega, located a good six kilometers to the northwest (Russian also Belobereschskaja pustyn, Белобережская пустынь ). The monastery, which was founded at the beginning of the 18th century , was largely destroyed in the Soviet period and finally in the 1950s, and the remaining and newly constructed buildings were used as a children's sanatorium and later housing estate. Today, however, this does not belong to Belyje Berega, but to the rural community of Shurinitschskoje selskoje posselenije des Brjanski rajon.

As the railway line was passed by, various primarily wood-processing companies emerged near the settlement, including a paper mill and the Brjansk thermal power station, which was initially operated with peat and commissioned on October 9, 1931 ( Brjanskaya GRES, converted to natural gas operation in the 1960s and shut down in 2015) .

On November 20, 1932, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement. In the Second World War , Belyje Berega was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from October 1941 to September 18, 1943 .

From an administrative point of view, Belyje Berega initially belonged to the Ujesd Brjansk in the Orjol governorate , from 1920 in the Brjansk governorate , from 1921 to its newly formed Ujesd Beshiza (the city of Besiza, at times Ordschnikidsegrad, was united with Brjansk in 1956 and today forms its northwestern part). With the introduction of the Rajon division the place came to the Brjanski rajon in 1929, before it was subordinated to the city of Brjansk in 1952 and its Stadtrajon Fokinski in 1957.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	4,897
1959	7,891
1970	11,113
1979	11,272
1989	10,759
2002	10,637
2010	9,642

Note: census data

traffic

The federal highways M3 Ukraina from Moscow to the Ukrainian border (from there towards Kiev ) and R120 from Oryol via Bryansk and Smolensk to the Belarusian border intersect about five kilometers southwest of Belyje Berega .

In Belyje Berega there is a train station at kilometer 113 of the Oryol - Bryansk railway line. This is where electrification from the direction of Bryansk ends .

In the settlement there was also the Torfjanaja station as the center of an extensive narrow-gauge network with a gauge of 750 mm that was built from 1932 . This served primarily the removal of peat from the fields to the northeast (up to the border areas of the neighboring oblasts Kaluga and Oryol ) and south of Belyje Berega, but in sections and the passenger. At the beginning of the 1970s it reached a maximum extent of around 150 km, was gradually decommissioned until 1996 and completely dismantled in the early 2000s.

Web links

Commons : Belyje Berega  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official web portal of the settlement (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)