Leschnewo (Ivanovo)

Urban-type settlement Leschnewo Лежнево Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ivanovo Rajon Leschnewski Founded 1239 Urban-type settlement since 1925 population 8034 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49357 Post Code 155120 License Plate 37, 137 OKATO 24 214 551 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 46 '  N , 40 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 46 '0 "  N , 40 ° 53' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ivanovo Oblast

Leschnewo ( Russian Ле́жнево ) is an urban-type settlement in the Ivanovo Oblast in Russia with 8034 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 25 km as the crow flies south of the Oblast Administrative Center Ivanovo on the right Uvod tributary Uchtochma.

Leschnewo is the administrative center of the Leschnewski Rajons as well as the seat and only locality of the municipality Leschnewskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

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  Trinity-and- Our Lady-of-the-Sign Church

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  Sovetskaya Square with the Pushkin Monument

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  Street in Leschnewo

history

The place was founded in 1239. The village belonged temporarily to members of the noble family Dolgorukov , around 1600 Marija Staritskaja, Magnus' widow of Denmark , and later to the ancestors of Alexander Pushkin .

1925 Leschnewo received the status of an urban-type settlement. On January 1, 1932, it became the administrative seat of the newly created Rajons named after him.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7,907
1959	10.139
1970	9,724
1979	8,788
1989	8,733
2002	8,314
2010	8,034

Note: census data

traffic

The Vladimir  - Ivanovo branch of the M7 Volga federal trunk road runs northwest of Leschnewo . The nearest train stations are in Ivanovo and a good 20 km northwest in Teikovo on the route ( Alexandrow  -) Kirschatsch  - Ivanovo.

Web links

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

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)