Chotkowo

city Chotkowo Хотьково flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Moscow Rajon Sergiev Posad Founded 1308 City since 1949 surface 25  km² population 21,505 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 860 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 195  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49654 Post Code 141370-141372 License Plate 50, 90, 150, 190, 750 OKATO 46 215 506 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 15 ′  N , 37 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 37 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Moscow Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Chotkowo ( Russian Хотько́во ) is a city with 21,505 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in Russia in the Moscow Oblast . It is located 60 km northeast of Moscow and 10 km south of the city of Sergiev Posad .

history

The Gate of the Protection and Intercession Monastery of Chotkowo

Chotkowo arose around the Orthodox Chotkow Monastery of the Protection and Intercession of the Virgin Mary, founded in 1308 (Russian Покровский Хотьков монастырь ), which today exists as a women's monastery. The monastery, which temporarily belonged to the nearby Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad , had around 280 inhabitants at the end of the 19th century, and a school and a hospital were established there at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1862 a railway station was built near the monastery as part of the construction of the line from Moscow to Sergiev Posad (this line was later extended to Yaroslavl and integrated into the Trans-Siberian Railway ). A settlement formed around the station, and a number of industrial companies were established there in the 1930s. In 1949 the place received city status. The monastery was dissolved by the communist rulers in the early 1920s and only returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1989 .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7,257
1959	14,341
1970	18.192
1979	22,140
1989	23,343
2002	20,957
2010	21,505

Note: census data

traffic

The Chotkowo station on the Trans-Siberian is today a stop for local trains from Moscow's Yaroslavl station to Sergiev Posad and Alexandrov . The next trunk road is Jaroslawler Chaussee , a section of the M8 main road .

Attractions

• Chotkow Monastery of the Protection and Intercession of the Virgin Mary with sacred buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries
• Abramzewo artists' village 4 km south of Chotkowo
• Alexius Church, built in the 1850s

sons and daughters of the town

• Sergei Suponew (1963–2001), TV presenter at ORT

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 : Chotkowo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chotkowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)