Clin
| city
Klin
Клин
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List of cities in Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.png)
.png)
.svg)
Klin ( Russian Клин ) is a Russian city in Moscow Oblast . It is located around 90 kilometers northwest of Moscow on the M10 trunk road and on the St. Petersburg – Moscow railway line . Klin is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name and has 80,585 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
history
Klin was first mentioned in a document in 1317. For a long time the place was disputed as a fortress city between the principalities of Moscow and Tver .
The future Tsar Michael I was exiled to Klin with his aunts in 1603 under the rule of Boris Godunov .
After a period of decline, Klin, which received town charter in 1781, flourished again with the establishment of the railway connection to Saint Petersburg in the mid-19th century. In the communist era, Klin was one of the first centers of the chemical industry.
During the Second World War , Klin was captured by the Wehrmacht on November 23, 1941 as part of the Taifun company , but was freed again on December 15, 1941 by units of the Western Front of the Red Army .
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1897 | 4,655 |
| 1926 | 8,700 |
| 1939 | 27,691 |
| 1959 | 53,322 |
| 1970 | 80,875 |
| 1979 | 91,487 |
| 1989 | 94.908 |
| 2002 | 83,178 |
| 2010 | 80,585 |
Note: census data (1926 rounded)
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Wasilij Sergeevich Smirnov (1858–1890), painter
- Nikolai Briling (1876–1961), engineer
- Semyon Vladimirov (1895–1956), weapons designer
- Nikolai Papiwin (1903–1963), Soviet officer, colonel general (air force)
- Wiktor Witkiewicz (1917–1972), radio astronomer
- Sergei Afanassjew (1918–2001), politician
- Yuri Roschdestwensky (1926–1999), philologist, philosopher and orientalist
- Yevgeny Minajew (* 1933), weightlifter
- Sergei Yefremov (* 1938), theater director
- Vladimir Vasilyev (* 1949), politician, colonel general of the police
- Valentin Rosanow (* 1955), artist
- Artur Muravyov (* 1965), politician
- Alexander Galuschka (* 1975), politician
- Roman Shchetnew (* 1976), officer (airborne troops)
- Jelena Konewzewa (* 1981), athlete
- Alexander Schulginow (* 1998), short tracker
People with a connection to the city of Klin
- Arkadi Gaidar (1904–1941), youth writer, lived in Klin 1938–1941
- Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), chemist, lived with Klin
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), composer, lived in Klin until shortly before his death; his house is now a museum
- Olga Subowa (* 1993), world weightlifting champion
Further educational institutions
- Institute for Economics and Law
Sports
The ice hockey club Titan Klin plays in the second highest Russian league .
Attractions
- Tchaikovsky Museum
- Former property of Dmitri Mendeleev
- Uspensky Cathedral (16th century)
- Church of the Resurrection (1712)
- Trade rows
photos
Tchaikovsky House
Uspensky Cathedral
View over Klin and the Sestra River
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
- Unofficial city portal (Russian)
- Klin on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
