Furmanow (city)

city Furmanov Khurmanov flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ivanovo Rajon Furmanov mayor Mikhail Kupriyanov Founded 1918 Earlier names Sereda City since 1918 surface 15  km² population 36,144 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2410 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49341 Post Code 155520-155526 License Plate 37, 137 OKATO 24 409 Website http://www.furmanov.net/ Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 15 '  N , 41 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 15 '0 "  N , 41 ° 7' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ivanovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Furmanow ( Russian Фурманов ) is a city in the Ivanovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 36,144 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 35 km northeast of the Oblast capital Ivanovo on the Shacha , a right tributary of the Volga .

Furmanow is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The town lies on the 1898 consistently opened railway Yaroslavl -Iwanowo as taught herein a freight branch line to Volgorechensk and local thermal power plant Kostroma branches. The R600 (Yaroslavl–) Kostroma –Iwanowo (- Wladimir ) trunk road (until 2017 also A113) leads east around Furmanow .

history

The village of Sereda-Upino was known in the area of ​​the present city since the 1620s . In 1918 this was combined with several surrounding workers' settlements that were built near textile factories in the 19th century to form the city of Sereda .

On May 13, 1941, the name was changed to Furmanow in honor of the writer who was born here.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	21,000
1939	36,062
1959	38,225
1970	40,155
1979	44.192
1989	46.182
2002	39,691
2010	36,144

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

Cathedral of Our Lady of Mourning

The Cathedral of Our Lady Mourning ( собор Скорбящей Божией Матери / sobor Skorbjashchei Boschijei Materi) has been preserved in Furmanov from 1886 to 1897.

Personalities

• Dmitri Furmanov (1891–1926), writer, born in Sereda

economy

In Furmanow there are several textile factories (including a weaving mill for cotton fabrics) and a machine factory.

Web links

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

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Furmanow 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)