Liwny

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city Livny Ливны flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Oryol Urban district Liwny First mention around 1177 City since 1586 surface 32.1  km² population 50,343 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1568 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48677 Post Code 30385x License Plate 57 OKATO 54 405 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 25 ′  N , 37 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 37 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Oryol Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Liwny ( Russian Ли́вны ) is a city with 50,343 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in Russia . It is located in the Oryol Oblast on the Bystraja Sosna , a right tributary of the Don , about 150 km southeast of the regional capital Oryol .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1177 and possibly got its name from the hydronym Liwen (in German "cloudburst", "strong rain") of a small river that flows into the Bystraja Sosna there. The earliest history of the place has not been recorded, but historians assume that Liwny was devastated by the troops of the Golden Horde in the 13th century . It was not until 1571 that the place Livny was rebuilt at this point, when the area came to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and was close to its southern borders. To protect against attacks from the south, a protective wall of trees was planted along this southern border, which could be felled quickly in the event of an attack, which should serve as an obstacle for the attacker.

In 1586 Liwny received city status due to its importance as a border town. In the middle of the 17th century, when Moscow expanded further south, Livny lost its military importance again. Since then it has been mainly agricultural, and trade developed there later.

During the Second World War , the city was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on November 26, 1941 , but was recaptured by Red Army troops on December 25, 1941 .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	20,448
1926	19,873
1939	11,982
1959	23,900
1970	37,290
1979	44,912
1989	51,696
2002	52,841
2010	50,343

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture plays a decisive role in the Liwny area, in particular the cultivation of grain, which is favored by the fertile Chernosem soil. In the city itself there is also industry, including engineering, manufacturing of plastics, building materials and food.

The city has a train station with connections to Oryol, Voronezh and other railway lines to many other regions of Russia.

In the vicinity of Liwny there is a 350 meter high transmission mast for broadcasting VHF radio and television programs, which was built in the 1970s.

sons and daughters of the town

• Sergei Bulgakow (1871–1944), economist and Russian Orthodox theologian
• Rem Chochlow (1926–1977), physicist and university professor
• Leonid Roschal (* 1933), pediatrician and human rights activist

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

• Liwny in the internet lexicon mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Unofficial website (Russian)