Kuwschinowo

city Kuwschinowo Кувшиново coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Kuwschinowo First mention 1624 City since 1938 surface 18  km² population 10,007 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 556 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 230  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48257 Post Code 172110-172112 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 234 501 Website www.kuvshinowo.org Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 2 '  N , 34 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 2 '0 "  N , 34 ° 11' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kuwschinowo ( Russian Кувшиново ) is a city in Tver Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,007 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Valdai heights about 130 kilometers west of the oblast capital Tver on the Ossuga , which flows into the Tverza , a left tributary of the Volga .

Kuwschinowo is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

The city lies on the 1928 continuously opened railway line Torzhok - Soblago .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1624 as the village of Kamenskoye .

Old fire station in Kuwschinowo

In 1829 Count WP Mussin-Pushkin founded a paper factory, which the entrepreneur M. Kuwschinow bought at the beginning of the 1870s. The railway station opened nearby in 1910 was named Kuwschinowo after the factory and landowner . The settlement of the same name that developed around the station grew together with the old village of Kamenskoye.

In 1938 the place received town charter as the district administration center of Kamenka .

At the beginning of 1963 the Rajon was dissolved and part of the Torzhok Rajon, but was restored in 1965, while the city was renamed Kuwschinowo , as there are a number of other places in Russia called Kamenka . The naming of a town in the Soviet period after a pre-revolutionary manufacturer was unusual; however, kuwschinka also stands for pond rose in Russian (see also city arms).

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7,909
1959	13,549
1970	12,963
1979	13,471
1989	12,435
2002	11,276
2010	10,007

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Kuwschinowo some buildings from the beginning of the 20th century have been preserved, such as the Volkshaus from 1913 and the house of the factory owner JM Kuwschinowa from 1916.

In the village of Prjamukhino there is the Bakunin family's former country estate with a colonnade, church and park.

Personalities

Administration building of the paper mill

• Michail Bakunin (1814–1876), revolutionary and anarchist , born in Prjamukhino, today Kuwschinowo district

economy

In addition to the paper and cardboard factory, there are companies in the timber industry.

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 : Kuwschinowo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Kuwschinowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)