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Kirschach
Киржач
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List of cities in Russia |
Kirschatsch ( Russian Киржач ) is a city in the Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ) with 29,965 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 125 km west of the Oblast capital Vladimir am Kirschatsch , a left tributary of the Klyazma in the river system of the Volga .
Kirschatsch is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .
history
The place emerged as a craft and trading settlement (Sloboda) around a monastery founded in the 14th century (according to various sources in 1332 on the instructions of Prince Ivan Danilovich of Moscow , or Sergius von Radonezh ). The designation performed according to the same flow, derived from Mordvinian word for the left ( Moksha кяржи / kjarschi; ersjanisch керш / Kersh).
The original monastery was closed in 1764; In 1778 Kirschatsch received town charter.
In the 19th century the city was known for silk weaving and wood carving.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 4,851 |
1939 | 11,596 |
1959 | 18,137 |
1970 | 21,561 |
1979 | 24,122 |
1989 | 25,431 |
2002 | 22,704 |
2010 | 29,965 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
In the city a number of buildings has been preserved from the 16th to the 17th century, including the ensemble of the Annunciation Monastery ( Благовещенский монастырь / Blagoveshchensky monastyr) with Annunciation Cathedral ( Благовещенский собор / Blagoveshchensky Sobor) and the Church of the Redeemer ( Спасская церковь / Spasskaja zerkow) from 1656.
Kirschatsch owns a history and art museum .
In the village of Novosjolowo , about 20 kilometers from Kirschatsch, an obelisk was erected in 1975 on the spot where the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and his flight trainer Vladimir Seryogin had a fatal accident in 1968 with a MiG-15 .
Economy and Infrastructure
In Kirschatsch there is a work by the Turkish Arçelik A.Ş. for household appliances (washing machines) and entertainment electronics (televisions), a factory for vehicle electrics and companies in the textile, food and furniture industries.
The city lies on the railway line Alexandrov / Strunino - Orekhovo-Zuyevo , the northeastern part of the Great Moscow railway ring .
sons and daughters of the town
- Wladimir Below (* 1984), chess master
- Sergei Bessonov (1892–1941), politician
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
- City administration website (Russian)
- Rajon Administration website (Russian)
- Kirschatsch on mojgorod.ru (Russian)