Gorodishche (Penza)

city Gorodishche Городище flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Gorodishche Founded 1681 City since 1780 surface 8  km² population 8096 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1012 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84158 Post Code 442310 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 218 501 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 16 '  N , 45 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 16 '0 "  N , 45 ° 42' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Gorodishche ( Russian Городище ) is a small Russian town in Penza Oblast . It has 8096 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and is located about 50 km east of the regional capital Penza at the Julowka, a tributary of the Sura .

Infrastructure

Gorodishche is on the M5 highway that runs from Moscow to Samara . The nearest train station is around 20 km away, south of the city. Gorodishche is connected to the gas network and has several industrial plants (including a furniture and baked goods factory). The development of the village consists mainly of single-storey houses. In Gorodishche there are two middle schools, several kindergartens, a music school and a polyclinic (data from Penzenskaja enciklopedia , status 2001).

history

Old city coat of arms (1781)

Gorodishche goes back to a fortress built in the 1670s to protect against nomadic invasions. Soon after its construction, however, it was destroyed in an attack by steppe inhabitants. It was rebuilt in May 1681. In addition to the fortress, the villages of Dmitrijewskaja and Bogojawlenskaja emerged as settlements for the Cossacks employed at the fortress . In the middle of the 18th century both settlements were united under the name Rogoschkino. In 1780 the village received town status and its current name Gorodishche.

The name Gorodishche arises from the fact that there are remains of a fortified settlement of the Burtassen , a historical people from the central Volga River, in the area of ​​the city . This Burtassian settlement existed until the 13th century, but its ramparts have been preserved to this day. Such fortress remains are called gorodishche (городище) in Russian .

The Russian historian Vasily Klyuchevsky spent his early childhood in Gorodishche.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	3965
1926	4934
1939	6335
1959	5258
1970	6298
1979	7072
1989	7926
2002	8281
2010	8096

Note: census data

sons and daughters of the town

• Ivan Saizew (1805-1887), painter
• Dmitri Selivanov (1855–1932), mathematician
• Theodor Seliwanoff (1859–1938), chemist

literature

• LG Korol et al .: Goroda Rossii. Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Enziklopedija, Moscow 1994.
• Wischnewski et al .: Pensenskaja enziklopedia. Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Enziklopedija, 2001 ( 80.95.32.100 electronic version).
• Alexander Fedorovich Selivanov: Gorodishche . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 9 [17]: Гоа – Гравер. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1893, p. 309–310 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF - district town of the province of Penza).
• OM Savin: Gorodišče. Saratov-Penza 1980.

Web links

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

• Gorodishche on mojgorod.ru

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)