Komarichi

Urban-type settlement Komaritschi Komarichi flag Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Rajon Komarichi Founded 1897 Urban-type settlement since 1957 population 7686 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48355 Post Code 242400 License Plate 32 OKATO 15 232 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 25 ′  N , 34 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 34 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

Komaritschi ( Russian Кома́ричи ) is an urban-type settlement in the Brjansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 7686 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is a good 100 km as the crow flies south-south-east of the Bryansk Oblast administrative center on a ridge that forms the watershed between the left Desna tributary Nerussa and its tributary Ussosha. The border with Ukraine is a good 50 km away; close Komaritschi the Oblast Bryansk oblasts bordering the Oryol and Kursk .

Komaritschi is the administrative center of the Komaritschi Rajon of the same name .

history

The name of the settlement goes back to the name of the surrounding area, which can be traced for the first time at the turn of the 16th century, when the area was attached to the Grand Duchy of Moscow . As part of the Ujesds Sevsk the Komaritschier (Komarizkaja) was volost with several villages in possession of the Moscow court.

The present-day place arose towards the end of the 19th century as a settlement near a train station, when the first connection between Moscow and Kiev was built via Lgow . The year of the opening of the line in 1897 is considered to be the year of its foundation. Just a few years later, however, this section of the line lost part of its importance with the construction of a shorter connection between Nawlja and Konotop .

The nevertheless developing Komaritschi became in 1929 the administrative center of a newly created Rajon, in 1930 the older village Lobanowo was incorporated. During the Second World War , the settlement was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from the beginning of October 1941 to autumn 1943 . In 1957, Komaritschi received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2763
1959	5384
1970	6591
1979	7495
1989	8053
2002	7234
2010	7686

Note : census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The economy of the place is characterized by the processing of the products of the surrounding agricultural area; there is a sugar factory and a dairy.

Komaritschi is on the Navlja - Lgow railway line (route km 479 from Moscow ; 55 km from Navlja). About 20 kilometers west of Komaritschi, the M3 trunk road runs from Moscow to the Ukrainian border and continues towards Kiev. The road from the M3 to Komaritschi for in an easterly direction to the Oryol Oblast, there via the small town of Dmitrovsk to the M2 trunk road near Kromy .

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

• Rajon Administration website (Russian)