Graiworon

city Grayvoron Грайворон flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Graiworon Founded 1678 City since 1838 surface 10  km² population 6,234 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 623 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (47261) Post Code 309370 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 232 501 Website www.graivoron.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 29 ′  N , 35 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  N , 35 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Graiworon ( Russian Грайворон ) is a small town in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 6234 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the southern edge of the Central Russian Plate, about 80 km west of the Oblast capital Belgorod on the left bank of the Worskla , a left tributary of the Dnieper .

Graiworon is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

history

Graiworon was founded in 1678 as a trading settlement (Sloboda) at the mouth of the Graiworonka river in the Worskla. The name means in the southern Russian dialect Rook (Russian Grach , and Woron for Raven ; see coat of arms).

In 1838 town charter was granted.

During the Second World War , Graiworon was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 19, 1941 and temporarily recaptured on February 16, 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front of the Red Army as part of the Battle of Kharkov . During a counter-offensive, the Wehrmacht succeeded in conquering the city again on March 13, 1943, until it was finally captured by troops of the Voronezh Front as part of the Belgorod-Kharkov operation on August 7, 1943 .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	6340
1926	8900
1939	4563
1959	5141
1970	5859
1979	5930
1989	5992
2002	6196
2010	6234

Note : census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

A number of buildings in the style of the " Zemstvo architecture" of the 19th and early 20th centuries have been preserved in the city, such as those of the boys 'and girls' high schools and the Zemstvo administration, as well as a villa with Art Nouveau elements , now a sanatorium.

Economy and Infrastructure

Graiworon has an electrotechnical factory, as well as companies in the food and construction industries.

The city is ten kilometers west of the Khhotmyshsk station of the Bryansk - Lgov - Kharkiv railway line opened on this section in 1911 .

The regional road R186 Belgorod - Ukrainian border runs through Graiworon .

sons and daughters of the town

• Wladimir Schuchow (1853–1939), designer and architect; born in Graiworon
• Anatoli Boldyrew (1883–1946), crystallographer, mineralogist, geologist and university professor

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)

Web links

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

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Graiworon on mojgorod.ru (Russian)