Kletnja

Urban-type settlement Kletnja Клетня coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Rajon Kletnjanski Founded 1880 Earlier names Ljudinka (until 1935) Urban-type settlement since 1935 population 13,313 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48338 Post Code 242820 License Plate 32 OKATO 15 226 551 Website [http: //] Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 23 '  N , 33 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 23 '15 "  N , 33 ° 13' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Kletnja ( Russian Клетня́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Bryansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,313 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located about 75 km west of the Bryansk Oblast Administrative Center and 30 km from the border with Belarus in an extensive forest area. It is located on the Nadwa river , which flows over Iput and Sosch to the Dnieper .

Kletnja is the administrative center of the Kletnja Raion of the same name as well as the seat of the municipality of Kletnjanskoje gorodskoje posselenije, to which the surrounding villages Dednja, Krasny Dvorets and Strujok as well as the settlements Bystryanka, Sanadwinski and at the 4th, 7th, 8th and 9th km of the Mamayev line ( p. 4-j km Mamajewskoi sch / d wetki etc.) belong.

history

The place was created in 1880 in connection with the forestry development of the surrounding area and was initially called Ljudinka. In 1918 the place became the administrative seat of a Volost of the then Ujesds Brjansk, in 1929 a Rajons. In 1935, Kletnja was given the status of an urban-type settlement under its current name.

During the German-Soviet War , Kletnja was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from August 1941 to September 20, 1943 . The surrounding area was one of the centers of the Soviet partisan movement .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6,451
1959	9,574
1970	11,680
1979	12,436
1989	14,258
2002	13,936
2010	13,313

Note: census data

Attractions

In the settlement stands the Church of Vladimir the Apostle ( церковь Владимира Равноапостольного , tskerkow Vladimira Rawnoapostolnovo ) from 1983, which was built in place of a burned down wooden church from the 1900s, as one of the few from the Soviet period. In the village there is a local history museum founded in 1970.

Economy and Infrastructure

Kletnja is the center of forestry and the wood processing industry.

The settlement is the end point of a 43 km long branch line opened in 1881 from Zhukovka on the Oryol  - Bryansk - Smolensk railway , today operated by the Moscow Railway . Earlier this route was the starting point of several (some narrow-gauge ) forestry tracks, including the beginning in Kletnja, km long in its heyday up to 60, last broad gauge Mamayev branch line (Mamajewskaja Vetka), whose last section was shut down only after the 2000th

Road connection exists over the 29 km long regional road 15K-502 to the trunk road R120 (formerly A141) running west of Zhukovka Oryol - Bryansk - Rudnja  - Belarusian border.

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)
2. ↑ Church at sobory.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Schukowka – Kletnja on the website of Sergei Bolashenko (Russian)