Grigoriopol

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Григориопол ( rum. )

Григориополь ( Russian )

Григориополь ( ukr. )
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State : TransnistriaTransnistria Transnistria (de facto) Moldova (de jure)
Moldova RepublicRepublic of Moldova 
Rajon : Grigoriopol district
Founded : 1792
Coordinates : 47 ° 9 ′  N , 29 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 9 ′  N , 29 ° 18 ′  E
 
Residents : 9,500 (2010)
 
Time zone : Eastern European Time
Telephone code : (+373) 210
 
Website :
Grigoriopol (Transnistria)
Grigoriopol
Grigoriopol
Lenin statue in Grigoriopol

Grigoriopol ( Russian Григориополь ) is a city in Transnistria or Republic of Moldova on the east bank of the Dniester , 45 km northwest of Tiraspol . It has almost 10,000 inhabitants and is the administrative capital of the Rajon named after it . Grigoripol has had official city status since 2002.

On old maps from the 17th and 18th centuries, the place is recorded under the name "Komorul". After the Turks and Tatars were expelled from this sparsely populated area and after their incorporation into Tsarist Russia, the place was re-established in 1792 by the Armenian Bishop Howsep for Armenian emigrants. The population of the city, which was inhabited by Armenians for a long time, is now mainly composed of Moldovans and Russians. The city was also intended for German colonists, but after problems with living together with the Armenians, they founded the Glückstal colonies in the area east of the city. From the Turkish-Tatar period of settlement, an extensive network of corridors and canals is still preserved under the city, which is laid out in two levels. In the 1970s you got inside during construction work, but everything was buried again. In 2018, during construction work, a hitherto unknown entrance into this network of corridors was discovered, and the Geographical Society of Transnistria has now taken care of its documentation.

Mayak radio station

A huge transmitter for short and medium wave was built near Grigoripol near Mayak between 1968 and 1975. At the end of the 1980s, 20 transmitters were operated there. In 1997, as a result of icing, a 350 m and a 250 m high mast of the system, which were used to broadcast radio programs in the medium wave range, collapsed.

Personalities

In 1875 the Russian architect Vasily Ivanovich Jeramishanzew was born in Grigoriopol and in 1975 the Ukrainian finance minister Oleksandr Danyljuk was born.

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  1. ↑ Ivan Bentchev: On a newly discovered portrait of the Armenian Archbishop Howsep - Iosif, Prince Argutinskij-Dolgorukij from 1793 . icon-art.info. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ Novosti PMR: THE UNDERGROUND LABYRINTHS OF GRIGORIOPOL AND UNKNOWN KOMORUL. July 27, 2018, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Mayak transmission mast (Mayak) . In: Structurae . Retrieved May 7, 2013.

Web links

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