Klinzy

city Klintsy Клинцы flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Urban district Klinzy mayor Alexander Dolgow Founded 1707 City since 1922 surface 64  km² population 62,510 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 977 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48336 Post Code 24314x License Plate 32 OKATO 15 415 Website www.klintcy.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 45 ′  N , 32 ° 14 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 32 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Klinzy ( Russian Клинцы ) is a medium-sized Russian town with 62,510 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Bryansk Oblast in the Central Federal District .

geography

The city is located in the western part of the oblast near the Belarusian and Ukrainian borders, almost 500 km as the crow flies southwest of Moscow and 150 km southwest of the regional capital, Brjansk . The closest cities are Surasch (31 km north), Novosybkow (31 km southwest) and Unetscha (32 km east). Klinzy is located on the Turosna River from the Dnepr river system .

history

Monument to the city's founders in Klinzy

The year Klinzy was founded (the place name comes from the family name of one of the first inhabitants) is 1707, when the village was created by old Orthodox , mainly rural settlers from central Russia. In the Great Northern War , many of these settlers fought as partisans against the Swedish invaders in Little Russia . This honored Tsar Peter I , who officially left the land around Klinzy to the settlers.

Due to the active trade and craft activities of the residents, Klinzy developed into a so-called posad , a merchant settlement typical of the Russian Empire . In 1767 the place already had 367 farms. In 1782 he was officially given posad status, and the textile industry flourished there in the 19th century. In 1907 there were already 28 industrial companies in Klinzy with around 12,000 inhabitants, most of them textile factories.

During the First World War , Klinzy was occupied by Central Powers since April 14, 1918 . On December 13, 1918, the Red Army entered the city.

In 1922 the Possad Klinzy was officially granted city status.

During the Second World War , the city was under German occupation from September 1941 to September 1943. The Jewish population, resident since the 18th century , which at the beginning of the 20th century made up about a fifth of the population, was murdered by SS Einsatzgruppen during the Second World War .

The city was rebuilt in the second half of the 20th century and in the mid-1980s it reached its highest population level of over 72,000. However, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 also affected the region around Klinzy. After a considerable economic decline in the 1990s, Klinzy's industry has recently been able to recover.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	40,483
1959	42,033
1970	58,062
1979	67.123
1989	71.161
2002	67,325
2010	62,510

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Today, Klinzy is a regional center and industrial location, which is best known for the clothing industry. The KAS construction crane factory is also of supraregional importance .

The city is close to the M13 trunk road to Ukraine and on the railway line from Bryansk to Gomel in Belarus.

Culture

There are 68 monuments of history, culture and architecture on the territory of the town of Klintsy. There are two culture houses, 10 libraries, a music and art school, a city park and a local museum.

Attractions

The St. Peter and Paul Church

• Local museum
• Former building of the city duma
• Former trading ranks
• Former merchants' houses from the 19th century
• Transfiguration Church
• Chapel of the Assumption Church

Town twinning

• Kyustendil , Bulgaria

sons and daughters of the town

• Woldemar Nelsson (1938–2006), conductor
• Natalja Schewzowa (* 1974), sprinter
• Alexei Drozdov (* 1983), decathlete
• Alexei Petuchow (* 1983), cross-country skier
• Witali Fridson (born 1985), basketball player

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 : Klinzy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Council website (Russian)
• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Klinzy on mojgorod.ru (Russian)