Karachev

city Karachev Karachev coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Rajon Karachev First mention 1146 City since 1779 surface 15  km² population 19,715 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1314 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48335 Post Code 242500 License Plate 32 OKATO 15 224 501 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 8 '  N , 34 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '0 "  N , 34 ° 59' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Karachev ( Russian Карачев ) is a city in the Brjansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 19,715 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Central Russian Plate about 45 km east of the Oblast capital Brjansk on the Sneschet , a left tributary of the Desna, which flows into the Dnepr .

Karachev is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Karachev was first mentioned in 1146. From 1246 it was the center of an autonomous principality that belonged to the Upper Oka principalities .

From 1396 Karachev belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , from 1503 to the Grand Duchy of Moscow .

During the turmoil at the beginning of the 17th century, the city was destroyed by Polish-Lithuanian troops, and again in 1662 by the Crimean Tatars .

However, since the first half of the 18th century, Karachev was again an important trading city in the region. In 1779 the official town charter was granted as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds).

During World War II , Karachev was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 6, 1941 and recaptured on August 15, 1943 by troops of the Brjansk Front of the Red Army as part of the Oryol Operation . During the fighting, the city was practically completely destroyed.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	15,493
1926	13,068
1939	17,898
1959	11.209
1970	15,972
1979	19,743
1989	22,446
2002	20,175
2010	19,715

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Karachev has a local museum.

In the vicinity of Karachev there is a 300-meter-high transmission mast for the Chaika radio navigation system.

economy

In Karachev there are mechanical engineering and electrical engineering companies as well as the textile and food industries.

The town lies on the opened on this section in 1868 railway Smolensk -Brjansk- Oryol (then part of the Riga-Oryol Railway ).

The A141 Smolensk – Bryansk – Oryol road also runs through Karachev .

sons and daughters of the town

• Leonid von Optina (1768–1841), monk and pastor
• Vladimir Chebotaryov (1921-2010), screenwriter and film director

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

• Karachev on mojgorod.ru (Russian)