Beschezk

city Bezhetsk Бежецк flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Beschezk Chief of Administration Sergei Alexandrowitsch Platonow Sergei Wladimirowitsch Lomakow (acting) First mention 1137 City since 1775 surface 17  km² population 24,522 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1442 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 145  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48231 Post Code 17198x License Plate 69 OKATO 28 204 501 Website bezhetsk.tv Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 47 '  N , 36 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 47 '0 "  N , 36 ° 42' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Bezhetsk ( Russian Бежецк ) is a town in Tver Oblast ( Russia ) with 24,522 inhabitants (October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 130 kilometers northeast of the oblast capital Tver at the confluence of the Ostretschina river in the Mologa , a left tributary of the Volga .

Beschezk is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The city lies on the railway line Yaroslavl - Rybinsk - Bologoje, opened on this section in 1870 .

history

Old city coat of arms (1780)

In the certificate of appointment of the Novgorod prince Svyatoslav from 1137, a settlement about 20 kilometers north of the present-day city Besichi is mentioned. Around the beginning of the 13th century it became the center of the large Beschezki Verkh area on the upper reaches of the Mologa in the east of the Novgorod Republic.

The settlement was destroyed in disputes between the Russian principalities in 1272 and the administration of the area was relocated to the Gorodetsk fortress in the place of today's city of Beschezk. Towards the end of the 14th century Gorodetsk fell to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and in 1433 received Dmitri Jurjewitsch Krasny , a grandson of Dmitri Donskois , his own local prince.

In 1766 it was renamed Beschezk and in 1775 it was granted city rights as the administrative center of a Ujesd in the governorship of Tver (since 1796 Tver governorate ).

Population development

year	Residents
1897	9,450
1939	17,545
1959	26,921
1970	30,030
1979	30,638
1989	30,377
2002	28,643
2010	24,522

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Although in the Soviet era, the city was destroyed many churches, a number remained: the Exaltation of the Cross Church ( Крестовоздвиженская церковь / Krestowosdwischenskaja Zerkow ) of 1670, the Transfiguration ( Преображенская церковь / Preobrazhenskaya Zerkow ) of 1772, the Kazan Church ( Казанская церковь / Kazanskaya Tserkov ) from 1775 and the bell tower of the Church of the Entrance to the Temple of Mary ( Введенская церковь / Vwedenskaja zerkow ) from 1682 (the only remnant of the former Monastery of the Entrance to the Temple / Vvedensky monastyr ), as well as the trading rows from the beginning of the 19th century.

Beschezk has a local museum.

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexei Araktschejew (1769–1834), General
• Alexei Tyranow (1801-1859), painter
• Wassili Andrejew (1861–1918), balalaika virtuoso and composer
• Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873–1945), writer
• Weniamin Fleischmann (1913–1941), composer
• Viktor Popow (1934–2008), conductor and choirmaster

economy

The most important companies in the city are the agricultural machinery plant Beschezkselmasch and a factory for special vehicle equipment. There are also companies in the textile (linen) and food industries.

The Dorokhovo Air Force Base is located five kilometers south of Beschezk .

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)

Web links

Commons : Beschezk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)
• Private website about Beschezk (Russian)