Lyudinovo

city Lyudinovo Ludinovo flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kaluga Rajon Lyudinovo First mention 1626 City since 1938 surface 43  km² population 40,530 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 943 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (48444) Post Code 249400 License Plate 40 OKATO 29 410 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 52 '  N , 34 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '0 "  N , 34 ° 26' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaluga Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Lyudinovo ( Russian Людиново ) is a town in the Kaluga oblast ( Russia ) with 40 530 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

The city is located about 180 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Kaluga am here to Ljudinowoer dam dammed river Nepolot , near its confluence with the Bolva River in the river system of the Dnepr .

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

history

A village Lyudinowo was first mentioned in 1626.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the industrialist Jewdokim Demidow from the Urals had two dams and an iron foundry built on the Nepolot River, which began operations in 1738. Another ironworks was added in 1745 .

In 1820 the industrialist Malzow bought the works, in 1841 the production of railway tracks began, after the Crimean War smaller ships for the Black Sea war fleet and river ships were built here from 1857 to 1858, and in 1879 the first steam freight locomotive.

In 1925, Lyudinovo received urban-type settlement status , and in 1938 city rights were granted.

During the Second World War , Lyudinowo was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 4, 1941 . On January 9, 1942, the city was temporarily retaken from the Western Front of the Red Army as part of the Rzhev-Vyazma operation , before it fell into German hands again on January 17, 1942. On September 9, 1943, the final capture by the Soviet Bryansk Front took place while advancing on Bryansk .

Around 1950 the Sukreml ( Сукремль ; urban-type settlement since 1929), a few kilometers to the south, was incorporated.

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1897	12,000
1939	17,581	and Sukreml workers' settlement (3,277; incorporated around 1950)
1959	26,433
1970	33,871
1979	39,812
1989	43,696
2002	41,829
2010	40,530

Note: Census data (1897 rounded)

Culture and sights

Waterfront in Lyudinovo

In the city that are Sergius von Radonezh 's Church ( церковь Сергия Радонежского / Zerkow Sergija Radoneschskogo) of the late 19th century, the bell tower of Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov) from 1836, the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Church ( церковь Параскевы Пятницы ) from the mid-19th century and other churches.

Economy and Infrastructure

The most important company in the city is a factory for diesel locomotives , which was built in the 1930s on the basis of the old ironworks and the later steam locomotive factory. There are also other mechanical engineering companies (hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, machine tools), the textile, furniture and food industries, and a plastics factory.

The city is located on the railway line Vyazma –Bryansk, opened in 1934 . A narrow-gauge railway , the so-called Malzow Railway from Brjansk, had existed since the 19th century.

The regional road R68 Brjansk – Djatkowo –Ljudinowo– Kirow runs through Lyudinowo (on to the connection with the A130 highway ), from which a cross-connection to the M3 trunk road branches off at Schisdra .

Web links

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

• City information portal (Russian)
• Lyudinowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)