Kuwschinowo
city
Kuwschinowo
Кувшиново
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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 .
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 |
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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
- 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
- ↑ 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
- City administration website (Russian)
- Kuwschinowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)