Klimovo (Bryansk)

Urban-type settlement Klimowo Климово coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Rajon Klimowski Founded 1708 Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 13,892 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 170  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48347 Post Code 243040 License Plate 32 OKATO 15 228 551 Website [http: //] Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 24 '  N , 32 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '30 "  N , 32 ° 11' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Klimowo ( Russian Кли́мово ) is an urban-type settlement in the Bryansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,892 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located about 175 km as the crow flies southwest of the Bryansk Oblast Administrative Center on the Irpa, a small right tributary of the Snow , a good 10 km from the border with Ukraine .

Klimowo is the administrative center of the Klimovsky Rajon . The settlement is the only locality in the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije).

To the northwest of Klimovo lies Novosybkow .

history

The place was founded in 1708 by the old Orthodox Klim Yermolajewitsch and was consequently the center of an area with a predominantly old Orthodox population.

In 1923 Klimowo became the administrative seat of a Volost , in 1929 of a newly created Rajons. Since 1938 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement .

During the Second World War , the settlement was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in August 1941 and recaptured by the Red Army on September 24, 1943 .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,678
1959	7,024
1970	9,708
1979	11,492
1989	14,637
2002	14,776
2010	13,892

Note: census data

Attractions

In Klimowo there is the old Orthodox Demetrios Church ( церковь Димитрия Солунского , zerkow Dmitrija Solunskowo ) from the 19th century. In the village there is the Rajonheimatmuseum, which is called the Museum of Friendship of Peoples (Musei Druschby Narodow) because of its proximity to Ukraine and Belarus .

In the district of Pokrovskoje about 5 km northwest of the center is the complex of the Klimowoer Maria-Schutz-und- Interbitte- Kloster (Klimowski Pokrowski monastyr) founded in 1765, initially old Orthodox, which has been believing since 1847 , which has been rebuilt since the late 1980s.

Economy and Infrastructure

There are food and light industries in the settlement.

Klimowo is the end point of a railway line from Novosybkow (station name Klimow ; route km 25). The line, opened in 1902, originally continued to Nowhorod-Siverskyj , now Ukraine, but was shut down from Klimowo in the 1990s. From Klimowo there is a daily continuous train connection via Bryansk to Moscow (as of 2012). The most important road connection runs along the railway line also in the direction of Novosybkow, where there is a connection to the M13 trunk road , which leads from Brjansk to the Belarusian border (there continues as M10 via Homel through the southern part of the country to Brest ). The road from Novosybkow via Klimov is part of an alternative route between Brjansk and the Ukrainian capital Kiev (via Chernihiv ).

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. ↑ Demetrios Church Klimowo at sobory.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Klimowoer Mariä-Schutz-und-intercessor-monastery at sobory.ru (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Klimowo  - collection of images, videos and audio files