Kameshkovo
city
Kameshkovo
Камешково
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List of cities in Russia |
Kameschkowo ( Russian Камешково ) is a city in the Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,103 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the Kljasma-Nerl lowlands about 40 km northeast of the Oblast capital Vladimir on the left of the Kljasma , a left tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .
Kameschkowo is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
history
Kameschkowo was established in 1892 as a workers' settlement in connection with the establishment of a weaving mill.
In 1927 the status of an urban-type settlement and on June 12, 1951 the city charter was granted. Since February 10, 1940, the place is the administrative seat of a Rajons named after him.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 9,283 |
1959 | 11,834 |
1970 | 12,865 |
1979 | 14,080 |
1989 | 15,061 |
2002 | 14,161 |
2010 | 13,103 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Near the city there are several architectural monuments of the 17th to 19th centuries, including the Church of the Resurrection ( Воскресенская церковь / Woskressenskaja Zerkow) of 1794 in the village Woskressenskoje , the Church of the Icon of the Georgian Mother of God ( церковь Грузинской Богоматери / Zerkow Grusinskoi Bogomateri ) of 1812 in the village of Gaticha and the Holy Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya zerkow) from 1801 in the village of Gorky .
Economy and Infrastructure
The city's largest company is the textile factory, which produces cotton fabrics, gauze and wadding . There is also an electrotechnical factory and companies in the food industry.
The city is located on the railway line Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod (km 235), opened in 1862 , on which a large part of the trains of the Trans-Siberian Railway run on its western part from Moscow.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
- Kameschkowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)