Lebedjan

city Lebedyan Лебедянь flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Lipetsk Rajon Lebedjan mayor Anatoly Kopylov First mention 1605 City since 1779 surface 20  km² population 21,012 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1051 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47466 Post Code 39961x License Plate 48 OKATO 42 233 501 Website goradmin.lebedyan.com Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 1 '  N , 39 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 1 '0 "  N , 39 ° 8' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Lipetsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Lebedjan ( Russian Лебедянь ) is a city in the Lipetsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 21,012 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the Central Russian Plate about 60 km northwest of the Oblast capital Lipetsk on the Don River .

Lebedjan is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Fountain in the old town

The place was founded at the end of the 16th century on the right bank of the Don as a guard on the then southeastern border of the Russian Empire and first mentioned in 1605.

It was named after the nearby river and lake, which appear in documents of the 17th century as Lebedjan or Lebedinoje (from Russian lebed for swan ; cf. city arms).

On September 16, 1779, the place received city rights as the administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ) in the Tambov governorate .

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the city was known for its horse markets and races.

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 35 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . This included some large transit camps that were closed after the war ended.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	12,774
1939	4,246
1959	8,595
1970	12,298
1979	20.006
1989	22,850
2002	22,966
2010	21,012

Note: census data

Culture and sights

New Kazan Cathedral

In Lebedjan there are parts of the Trinity Monastery founded in 1621 ( Троицкий монастырь / Troizki monastyr) with the Trinity Cathedral ( Троицкий собор / Troizki sobor) from 1642 to 1666, which was severely destroyed in the 1920s. In addition, in the city that are Prophet Elias Church ( Ильинская церковь / Iljinskaja Zerkow) from the beginning of the 17th century, which severely damaged the Assumption Church ( Успенская церковь / Uspenskaja Zerkow) from 1621, the Virgin Birth Church ( церковь Рождества Богородицы / Zerkow Roschdestwa Bogoroditsy) from the end of the 18th century, the Old Cathedral of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan , just old Kazan Cathedral ( Староказанский / Starosanski sobor) of 1771 and the new Kazan Cathedral ( Новоказанский / Nowokasanski sobor) of 1828 until 1836 with a 60 meter high bell tower.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Lebedjan there are machine and equipment manufacturing companies as well as the light and food industry. The largest fruit juice manufacturer in Eastern Europe Lebedjanski comes from Lebedjan and now has one of its main production sites in the city.

The city lies on the railway line between Lev Tolstoy and Jelez, opened in 1890 . The road R205 Lipetsk– Dankow bypasses Lebedjan to the east.

sons and daughters of the town

• Paul von Derwies (1826–1881), railroad entrepreneur and patron
• Konstantin Igumnow (1873–1948), composer
• Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), writer

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)
2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (Ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.

Web links

Commons : Lebedjan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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