Dedovichi

Urban-type settlement Dedowitschi Дедовичи Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Pskov Rajon Dedovichski head Vladimir Yelisarov Founded 1901 Urban-type settlement since 1967 population 8798 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 80  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81136 Post Code 182710 License Plate 60 OKATO 58 210 551 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 33 '  N , 29 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 33 '0 "  N , 29 ° 57' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Pskov Oblast

Dedowitschi ( Russian Дедовичи ) is an urban-type settlement in the Pskov Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,798 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located on the right bank of the Schelon , a tributary of Lake Ilmen , below the confluence of the left tributary Sudoma, about 100 kilometers as the crow flies east-southeast of the oblast capital Pskow .

Dedovichi is the administrative center of the Rajons Dedowitschski and only location of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Dedovichi.

history

The place was founded on September 11, 1901 during the construction of the railway line Saint Petersburg  - Vitebsk as a station settlement in place of the churchyard Vysokoye and named after the nearest villages Bolshoi Dedowez and Maly Dedowez.

With the establishment of a Rajon in 1927, Dedowitschi became its center. During the Second World War , Dedowitschi, which was occupied by the German Wehrmacht at the end of July 1941 , was in the hands of Soviet partisans from February to September 1942 as the center of an area several thousand square kilometers . Dedowitschi was finally recaptured at the end of February 1944 as part of the Leningrad-Novgorod Operation by the 1st Shock Army of the Red Army , which faced the 16th Army of the Wehrmacht in the area of ​​the settlement .

In 1967 urban-type settlement status was given.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2607
1959	2604
1970	3262
1979	6098
1989	8494
2002	9881
2010	8798

Note: census data

economy

Pskov thermal power station near Dedowitschi

A few kilometers south of Dedowitschi is the Pskov thermal power plant (Pskovskaya GRES) . The natural gas powered power plant with an output of 430 megawatts was put into operation between 1993 and 1996 and is now part of OGK-2 . There are also forestry and wood processing industries, the food industry and a factory for plastic products in the village.

The settlement is located on the railway line Saint Petersburg - Novosokolniki  - Vitebsk (route km 277 from Saint Petersburg Vitebsk train station ). From Dedowitschi there is a connection to the regional road R57, which runs past 12 km to the west, which leads from Porchow through the east of the oblast to the R58 between Novorschew and Beschanizy .

Web links

• Official website of the Raion Administration (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)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dedowitschi on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Pskowskaja GRES ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the OGK-2 website (in Russian)