Dno
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Dno
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List of cities in Russia |
Dno ( Russian Дно ) is a small town in the Pskov Oblast ( Russia ) with 9061 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the Schelon lowlands about 110 kilometers east of the oblast capital Pskov .
Dno is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
The city lies at the intersection of Railroads ( Yaroslavl -) Rybinsk - Bologoje - Pskov (- Riga / Tallinn ) (the former Rybinsk Pskow- Windawaer railway , built in 1897) and St. Petersburg -Dno- Newel - Vitebsk (opened in 1904).
history
In what is now the city several villages named are from the beginning of the 15th century Dno or Donze , later Donschtschina known.
Around 1897 a station settlement Dno was established in connection with the construction of the railway line. In Russian, the word dno stands for ground (e.g. a body of water), but the background of the place and station name is unclear.
The last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II , signed his certificate of abdication on March 2, 1917 at the Dno station .
In 1925 city charter was granted.
During the Second World War , Dno was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 18, 1941 and recaptured on February 24, 1944 by troops of the Leningrad and the 2nd Baltic Front as part of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1926 | 6,095 |
1939 | 14,701 |
1959 | 13,216 |
1970 | 12.184 |
1979 | 12,106 |
1989 | 12,406 |
2002 | 10,049 |
2010 | 9,061 |
Note: census data
economy
In Dno there are companies in the construction industry (factory for steel structures Keramit ) and the textile industry as well as railway workshops.
Web links
- Dno on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)