Lgow

city Lgow Льгов coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kursk Urban district Lgow Founded 1669 City since 1779 surface 38  km² population 21,453 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 565 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47140 Post Code 307750 License Plate 46 OKATO 38 410 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 40 ′  N , 35 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 35 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kursk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Lgow ( Russian Льгов ) is a city in the Kursk Oblast ( Russia ) with 21,453 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the southern part of the Central Russian Plate about 80 km west of the Oblast capital Kursk am Seim , a left tributary of the Desna, which flows into the Dnieper .

Lgow is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

history

Lgow Railway Station

In old Russian chronicles a city of Olgow (derived from the name Oleg ) is mentioned in place of the current city for the years 1152 and 1207 . It was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century .

In 1669 a monastery called Lgow monastyr was founded in place of the old town , which existed until 1764. The settlement around the monastery was granted city rights in 1779.

With the construction of the railway in the second half of the 19th century (the originally shortest connection between Moscow and Kiev was via Lgow), there was an economic boom through the establishment of farms for the processing of agricultural products.

During the Second World War , Lgow was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 27, 1941 and recaptured on March 3, 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front of the Red Army as part of the Battle of Kharkov .

In 1954, the surrounding towns, such as the urban-type Lgowski settlement , were incorporated, so that the town now extends over a relatively large area with several town centers.

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1897	4,321
1939	7,732	plus about 7,600 independent Lgowski settlement
1959	21,328
1970	25.110
1979	26,523
1989	25,643
2002	23,783
2010	21,453

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The city has a local museum and a literary-historical museum .

Nearby is the former country residence of the Baratynski princes from the first half of the 19th century.

economy

In Lgow there are companies in the food industry (including a sugar factory), machine and tool construction (including equipment for the sugar industry) and the building materials industry.

The city's Lgow-Kijewski station is a major railway junction. It lies on the railway line Kiev – Kursk, opened in 1868 , which is crossed here by the line Brjansk - Kharkiv (opened in 1887 and 1911).

The regional road R199 Kursk - Kurtschatow - Rylsk - Ukrainian border and on to Hluchiw runs through Lgow .

Personalities

• Nikolai Assejew (1889–1963), poet, born in Lgow
• Borys Bukrejew (1859–1962), mathematician, born in Lgow
• Arkadi Gaidar (1904–1941), writer, born in Lgow

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 : Lgow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Private website about Lgow (Russian, partly English)
• Lgow on mojgorod.ru (Russian)