Lakinsk
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Lakinsk
Лакинск
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List of cities in Russia |
Lakinsk ( Russian Лакинск ) is a city in the Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,715 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 30 km southwest of the Oblast capital, Vladimir, on the left of the Klyazma , a left tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .
Lakinsk belongs to the Sobinka district and is only about four kilometers south of its administrative center, the city of Sobinka on the other side of the Klyazma .
history
In the area of today's city, the village of Undol has been known since the end of the 15th century . In the 18th century the estate of the Suvorov family was located here, on which the later Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov lived from 1784 to 1786.
In 1869 a weaving mill was founded. After the October Revolution of 1917, the factory was named after the Bolshevik party functionary Michail Lakin (1876–1905) who was murdered here , and the associated workers' settlement was named accordingly, Lakinski .
In 1927 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and in 1969 under its current name the town charter .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 7.216 |
1959 | 9,844 |
1970 | 15,077 |
1979 | 17,493 |
1989 | 18,918 |
2002 | 17,086 |
2010 | 15,715 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
In Lakinsk the Church of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan , or Kazan Church for short ( Казанская церковь / Kazanskaja zerkow) from the end of the 17th century has been preserved.
Economy and Infrastructure
In the city there are textile ( Lakinskaja manufaktura ), furniture and food industries (including the large- scale dairy Lakinskoje moloko ).
The city is located on the Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod railway line ( Undol station ; route km 161), which opened in 1862 and on which a large part of the Trans-Siberian Railway's western section now runs from Moscow. The M7 Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan – Ufa road (part of the European route 22 ) also runs through Lakinsk .
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
- Official Website (Russian)
- Lakinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)