Gryazi

city gryazi Грязи flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Lipetsk Rajon Gryazi mayor Vladimir Roschtschupkin Founded 1868 City since 1938 surface 30  km² population 46,807 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1560 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47461 Post Code 399050-399061 License Plate 48 OKATO 42 206 501 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 30 ′  N , 39 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 39 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Lipetsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Grjasi ( Russian Грязи ) is a city with 46,807 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and the center of the raion of the same name in the Lipetsk Oblast in Russia . It is located on the Matyra River , a tributary of the Voronezh , about 30 km southeast of the regional capital Lipetsk .

history

The city was founded in 1868, when the railway line was moved from Moscow to Voronezh and a train station was built in what is now the city. The name of the city, which literally means “sludge” - possibly the type of black earth predominant in this region - existed earlier and originally belonged to a village in the vicinity.

As early as 1869, further railway lines to Jelets and Borissoglebsk were built from here , so that Grjasi became a railway junction. At the beginning the place had a little over 1000 inhabitants, by the end of the 1930s there were almost 26,000. At the same time, namely in 1938, Gryazi received city status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	25,881
1959	34,425
1970	41,292
1979	42,624
1989	47,458
2002	47,478
2010	46,807

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Bus station in Grjasi

Today Grjasi is considered an industrial suburb of Lipetsk, including a hydraulic and an agricultural machine factory as well as a sugar factory and other food plants.

As a transport hub, Grjasi has three train stations and a bus station. There is a connection to the M4 trunk road via Lipetsk, and the city of Tambov is also 100 km to the east , to which Grjasi is also connected by a direct road.

Personalities

• Georgi Plekhanov (1856–1918), philosopher, came from Gudalowka near Grjasi

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 : Grjasi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Grjasi on mojgorod.ru (Russian)