Lichoslavl
city
Lichoslavl
Лихославль
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
List of cities in Russia |
Lichoslavl ( Russian Лихославль ) is a city in Tver Oblast ( Russia ) with 12,257 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the edge of the Lichoslavl ridge about 40 kilometers northwest of the oblast capital Tver .
Lichoslavl is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
The city lies on the St. Petersburg – Moscow railway line, opened in 1851 , on the former Nikolaibahn (route km 441), from which a line branches off via Torzhok and Rzhev to Vyazma .
history
A village called Ostashkowo has been known since 1624 in the place of today's city . A village called Lichoslawl was first mentioned at the beginning of the 19th century. The places experienced an economic boom with the development of a railway junction through the opening of the two railway lines in 1851 and 1870. A larger station settlement developed.
In 1925 the village and the station settlement were combined to form the city of Lichoslavl . From 1937 to 1939 it was the administrative center of a Karelian National Circle in the Tver Oblast.
Population development
year | Residents |
---|---|
1939 | 7,666 |
1959 | 9,470 |
1970 | 11,709 |
1979 | 12,832 |
1989 | 13,449 |
2002 | 12,515 |
2010 | 12,257 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
The city has a local museum.
economy
In Lichoslavl there is a supplier of the car industry (coolers and heaters), a factory for lighting technology and companies in the textile and food industries.
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
- Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
- Lichoslavl on mojgorod.ru (Russian)