Ljuban

city Ljuban Любань flag Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Leningrad Rajon Tosno First mention 1500 City since 1912 surface 7  km² population 4188 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 598 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 41  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81361 Post Code 187050 License Plate 47 OKATO 41 248 505 Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 21 ′  N , 31 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Leningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Ljuban ( Russian Люба́нь ) is a small town in the northwestern Russian Leningrad Oblast . It has 4188 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 85 km southeast of the oblast capital Saint Petersburg on the Tigoda , a left tributary of the Volkhov .

Ljuban belongs to the Tosno district .

history

The place was first mentioned in documents of the Novgorod Republic around 1500.

In 1711 the road between Saint Petersburg and Moscow passed through the village; the writer Alexander Radishchev dedicated a chapter of his critical journey from Petersburg to Moscow to him .

After the first Russian long-distance railway line from Saint Petersburg to Moscow had also passed through the village, from the middle of the 19th century it developed into a place of recreation, especially for wealthy residents of Saint Petersburg.

In 1912 city rights were granted.

During the Second World War , Ljuban was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on August 25, 1941 . An attempt by the Red Army to recapture the city in early 1942 in what was later to be known as the Ljubaner Operation , came to a halt at the entrances to the city with huge losses. Only two years later, on January 28, 1944, troops from the Volkhov Front were able to take Lyuban as part of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1000
1926	4300
1939	8681
1959	7139
1970	6970
1979	7057
1989	5078
2002	4616
2010	4188

Note: Census data (1897–1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

In the city stands the Peter and Paul Church, built in 1867 by the architect Konstantin Thon .

Economy and Infrastructure

Express train ЭР200 at Ljuban station

There are companies in the timber and wood processing industries in Ljuban.

The city is located on the Nikolaibahn St. Petersburg– Moscow, opened in 1851 (route km 83).

The M10 trunk road (also European route 105 ) Moscow – Saint Petersburg runs through Ljuban , from which the R41 regional road branches off via Mga to Pavlovo near Kirovsk .

Personalities

• Pawel Melnikow (1804–1880), author of the project and one of the construction managers of the Nikolaibahn, first transport minister of the Russian Empire; buried in Ljuban
• Andrei Ryabushkin (1861–1904), painter; lived near Ljuban from 1901, buried here
• Nikolai Tschernyshevsky (1828–1889), writer; worked in Ljuban in 1860

See also

• List of cities in Leningrad Oblast

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

• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Ljuban on mojgorod.ru (Russian)