Duchovshchina

city Duchowschtschina Духовщина coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Smolensk Rajon Duchovshchina City since 1777 surface 11  km² population 4,371 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 397 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48166 Post Code 216200 License Plate 67 OKATO 66 216 501 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 12 ′  N , 32 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 32 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Smolensk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Duchowschtschina ( Russian Духовщина ) is a small town in the Smolensk Oblast ( Russia ) with 4,371 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the western part of the Smolensker Heights about 60 kilometers northeast of the Oblast capital Smolensk on the river Vostitsa in the river system of the Dnieper .

Duchowschtschina is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

In place of the current city, the Holy Spirit Monastery (Russian Duchow monastyr ) existed since the 13th or beginning of the 14th century , around which a trading settlement called Duchowskaja Sloboda existed in the 15th century .

From the second half of the 17th century the village belonged to the court of the tsars .

In 1777 the town charter was granted under its current name. The city burned down during the Napoleonic invasion in 1812.

During the Second World War , Duchowschtschina was occupied by the Wehrmacht on July 15, 1941 and was recaptured on September 19, 1943 by troops of the Kalinin Front of the Red Army as part of the Duchowschtschina-Demidow operation . The city was badly damaged during the fighting.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	3109
1926	2900
1939	3864
1959	3293
1970	4420
1979	5114
1989	5747
2002	4683
2010	4371

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

In 1995 a new Church of the Holy Spirit ( Церковь Святого Духа / zerkow Swjatowo Ducha), named after the city's name, was built.

The city has a history and local museum .

In the village Bassino which is the Annunciation Church ( Благовещенская церковь / Blagoweschtschenskaja Zerkow) received in 1814, in the village Welisto the Virgin Birth Church ( церковь Рождества Богородицы / Zerkow Roschdestwa Bogoroditsy) of 1828 and in the village Sagussinje the Assumption Ascension Church ( Успенская церковь / Uspenskaja zerkow) from 1785 preserved.

Memorials and memorials

There is a Russian war cemetery in Dukhovshchina.

The German war cemetery in Duchowschtschina was created as a collective cemetery by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . The reburial work began in 2010. Until the official inauguration on August 3, 2013, 30,000 dead had been buried or reburied at the facility designed for 70,000 fallen soldiers.

economy

There are companies in the food and wood industries in Duchovshchina.

The Smolensk Thermal Power Plant (Smolenskaya GRES) operated by OGK-4 is located near Osjorny in the north of the Rajon .

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. ↑ Internet site of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the war cemetery in Duchowschtschina)
3. ^ Commemorative event for the inauguration of the German military cemetery Duchowschtschina at germanruvr.ru, August 3, 2013 (accessed on August 3, 2013).

Web links

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

• Duchowschtschina on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• City history (Russian)