Kashira

city Kashira Кашира flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Moscow Rajon Kashira mayor Yevgeny Pusryakov First mention 1356 City since 1777 surface 16  km² population 41,870 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2617 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 190  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49669 Post Code 14290x License Plate 50, 90, 150, 190, 750 OKATO 46 220 501 Website kashira-grad.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 50 ′  N , 38 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 38 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Moscow Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kaschira ( Russian Каши́ра ) is a city in Moscow Oblast , Russia . It is 115 km south of Moscow , on the right bank of the Oka, and has 41,870 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The name of the place comes from the river Kaschirka, the origin of which is not exactly known. Kaschira (then: Koschira ) was first mentioned as a village in 1356 and is therefore one of the oldest places in today's Moscow Oblast.

At the end of the 15th century, Kashira was a southern border town within the Moscow principality . This was the fate of the place several times: in 1480 Tsar Ivan III let him . Burn down as a precaution before the approaching Tatars , at the end of the 16th century Kashira was repeatedly targeted by the Crimean Tatars . In 1620 Kaschira was moved from the left to the right bank of the Oka, and the fortifications were renewed. However, the fortress lost its military importance in the same century.

Church of the Assumption of Mary

In the 18th century, industry and trade developed increasingly in Kaschira, which was also thanks to the town's favorable road and river connections with Moscow, Tula , Serpuchow and other important cities at the time. In 1777 Kaschira received city rights, and in 1900 a railway connection . From an administrative point of view, the city has belonged to Moscow Oblast since 1923.

During World War II , Kashira was contested at times and also served as one of the southern outposts in the Battle of Moscow . At the end of November 1941, however, the Wehrmacht was able to be pushed back.

In the post-war years, the city was expanded considerably, including through the incorporation of the small town of Novokashirsk in 1963. The town, located about six kilometers east of the old city center, was built in the early 1920s together with a large thermal power station near the village of Ternowo. In May 1928 Ternowo received the status of an urban-type settlement and on June 1, 1932 as Ternowsk the city rights. On June 27, 1935, Ternovsk was renamed after Lasar Kaganowitsch in Kaganowitsch , then in 1957 as part of the de-Stalinization in Novokashirsk (about "New Kaschira "). The power plant was expanded and modernized in the 1970s and is still one of Kashira's most important industrial facilities today; the former city of Novokashirsk is called Kaschira -2 as a district .

On November 16, 2015, the small town of Oscherelje, ten kilometers to the southeast, was incorporated into Kaschira.

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1897	4.038
1926	9,711	of which Kaschira 7,457, Ternowo 2,254
1939	25,751	of which Kaschira 17,419, Kaganowitsch 8,332
1959	31,608	of which Kaschira 22,121, Novokashirsk 9,487
1970	39,456
1979	43,804
1989	44.110
2002	40,898
2010	41,870

Note: census data

coat of arms

Description : Divided into silver and blue; above a common golden cross , below on a curved green shield base a red-winged and tongued basilisk with a golden beak, legs and crown .

Economy and Transport

Kaschira station

In addition to the thermal power station, the city's industrial operations today include a shipyard, an iron foundry, a machine factory for agricultural systems, a brick factory, and furniture, textile and food factories.

Kaschira is located on the Russian M4 trunk road from Moscow to Novorossiysk , from which the M6 branches off to Astrakhan . Since 1900, Kashira has also had a railway connection on a main line that leads from Moscow's Paveletsky Railway Station to southern Russia and the Ukraine. There are also direct local train connections with Moscow.

Attractions

Most of the historical buildings in Kaschira date from the city's heyday from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. These are:

• Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1802–1817)
• Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1815)
• Ascension Church (1826–1849)
• City Church of the Dormition of the Virgin (1829–1842)
• Buildings of the former Nikita monastery
• Several neo-classical houses from the 19th century

sons and daughters of the town

• Boris Shchukin (1894–1939), Soviet theater and film actor
• Vladimir Subov (1930-2000), mathematician, educator
• Alexander Fjodorowitsch Feoktistow (* 1948), chess composer
• Marija Michailowna Korotejewa (* 1981), Russian hurdler

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 : Kaschira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Kaschira on mojgorod.ru (Russian)