Kirishi

city Kirishi Кириши flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Leningrad Rajon Kirishsky mayor Alexander Voskobovich First mention 1693 City since 1965 surface 32  km² population 52,309 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1635 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 29  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81368 Post Code 187110-187115 License Plate 47 OKATO 41 425 Website www.gorod-kirishi.ru Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 27 '  N , 32 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 27 '0 "  N , 32 ° 1' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Leningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kirischi ( Russian Кириши ) is a city in Russia with 52,309 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Kirishi Sports Palace

The city is located about 110 km as the crow flies southeast of the center of Saint Petersburg in Leningrad Oblast , not far from the border with Novgorod Oblast on the right bank of the Volkhov River . Kirishi is the administrative seat of Kirishsky Rajon .

history

Kirishi is located in an area that was originally settled by Finnish tribes. The immigration of Slavic tribes began in the 6th century. In the Middle Ages, one of the trade routes “ from the Varangians to the Greeks ” (i.e. from Scandinavia to Byzantium ) ran here with the river Volkhov . The first documentary mention of Kirischi as a village comes from the year 1693. The origin of the place name is not certain. According to a legend, it goes back to a settler named Kirscha from Novgorod .

From 1727 the village belonged to the Ujesd Novaja Ladoga of the Saint Petersburg governorate , from 1776 to 1781 temporarily to the governorship of Novgorod. On the opposite bank of the river Kirishi was the village of Solzy in the 19th century, which belonged to the family of the Bestuschew brothers , who were among the participants in the Decembrist uprising .

With the introduction of the Rajon division, Kirischi came to Andrejewski rajon on August 1, 1927, based in the village of Andrejewo, a good 10 km north not far from the station of the same name on the Chudowo  - Volkhov railway line . With a resolution of March 11, 1931 (confirmed on September 30, 1931) the village of Solzy was renamed Kirishi (at the beginning Novyje Kirishi, "New Kirishi" was also in use), the administrative seat of the Rajon was relocated there and the Rajon was renamed accordingly. At the Kirischi station , which opened on the Mga  - Sonkowo railway line to the right of the Volkhov in 1927 , a number of industrial plants and a workers' settlement emerged, which was also given the status of an urban-type settlement on December 27, 1933 under the name of Kirishi .

During the Second World War there was heavy fighting in the area that lasted for almost two years; In December 1941, as a result of the battle for Tikhvin, a bridgehead was created on the right bank of the Volkhov, which the German Wehrmacht was able to hold until the beginning of October 1943. Both the settlement and the village of Kirishi were in fact completely destroyed, and it was initially decided not to rebuild the places to the previous extent. The district administration was relocated to Budogoschtsch , 30 km south-east, on February 19, 1944 .

In connection with the construction of a large chemical plant a few kilometers north of the railway station from 1961, however, a prefabricated housing estate was built south of the railway line , which received city rights on January 12, 1965. At the same time, Kirishi was again the administrative seat of the restored Rajons, which had been temporarily dissolved on February 1, 1963.

Population development

year	Residents	annotation
1939	5,464	of which settlement 4,336, village (formerly Solzy) 1,128
1959	615
1970	27,252
1979	44,246
1989	53,014
2002	55,634
2010	52,309

Note: census data

economy

The most important companies in the area are the KINEF oil refinery ( Ki rischi nef teorgsintes, Russian Киришинефтеоргсинтез ) and the GRES-19 cogeneration plant .

Sports

With the new construction of an indoor swimming pool built according to Olympic standards, the place developed into a center of Russian water polo after the turn of the millennium . The local club Kinef Kirischi is one of the best women's teams in the world and forms the core of the Russian national team. The women's world league final took place here in 2005 and 2009 .

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 : Kirishi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kirishi official website
• Kirishi on mojgorod.ru
• Official website of Kirischinefteorgsintes