Bolchow

city Bolkhov Болхов coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Oryol Rajon Bolchow head Alexander Ivanovich Melnikov First mention 13th Century City since 1778 surface 32  km² population 11,421 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 357 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48640 Post Code 303140, 303142 License Plate 57 OKATO 54 204 501 Website bolhov-adm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 27 '  N , 36 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '0 "  N , 36 ° 0' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Oryol Oblast

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Bolchow

Bolchow ( Russian Бо́лхов ) is a Russian city ​​in Oryol Oblast , Central Federal District . It is the administrative seat of the Rajons of the same name and has 11,421 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Geographical location

The city is located at the mouth of the Bolchowka River in the Nugr , a tributary of the Oka , around 60 km north of Oryol and around 270 km southwest of Moscow .

history

Bolchow - the name is derived from the personal name Bolch - has been known since the 12th century and served as a fortress on the southern border of the Moscow Empire in the 16th century . On April 29th ^July / May 9th ^greg. and April 30th ^jul. / May 10th 1608 ^greg. a battle between the Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Dmitri Ivanovich Shuisky and the Polish army under Pseudodimitri II took place near the place , which ended with the victory of Poland and paved the way to Moscow for the "fake Dmitri". In 1778 the settlement was granted city rights and developed into a trading center with an important leather goods industry by the end of the 19th century .

Population development

year	Residents
1749	7,900
1781	5,300
1838	13,400
1897	21,446
1926	17,535
1939	12,681
1959	11.303
1970	13,283
1979	13,026
1989	13,071
2002	12,148
2010	11,421

Note: from 1897 census data

Economy and Transport

Today the dominant industries are food production, furniture and semiconductor manufacturing as well as industrial hemp processing . Bolchow is located on the important R-92 road from Oryol to Kaluga .

Attractions

In the historic center are next to the imposing Christ's Transfiguration Church ( Спасо-Преображенский собор / Spaso-Preobrazhensky Sobor , 1841-1851), the Holy Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov , 1708) and the Church of St. George ( Георгиевская церковь / Georgiewskaja Tserkov ) is important . Outside the city, near the village of Verkhnyaya Monastyrskaya , is the Optin Monastery , founded in the 14th or 15th century ( Оптин монастырь / Optin monastyr ), which, however, was badly damaged in the 1930s.

sons and daughters of the town

• Yevgeny Preobrazhensky (1886–1937), revolutionary

Web links

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

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)
• City unofficial website (Russian)
• Bolchow on mojgorod.ru (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)