Lokot (Bryansk)

Urban-type settlement Lokot Локоть coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Rajon Brassowski First mention 17th century Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 10,028 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48354 Post Code 242310 License Plate 32 OKATO 15 204 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 34 '  N , 34 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 34 '15 "  N , 34 ° 34' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Lokot ( Russian Ло́коть ) is an urban-type settlement in the Bryansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,028 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located a good 80 km south of the Bryansk Oblast administrative center , a good 4 km from the right bank of the left Desna tributary Nerussa .

Lokot is the administrative center of Brassovsky Rajon and the seat of the municipality of Lokotskoye gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the four settlements Kamenka (8 km southwest), Krasnoye Pole (3 km west), Tschistopoljanski (almost immediately northwest) and Vesyoly Kut (3 km northwest). belong.

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in the first half of the 17th century as a hamlet (chutor) Lokotski Kolodes ("Lokoter Brunnen") not far from the older village Brassowo (Brassowo today is actually directly adjacent to Lokot, its center is about 3 km northeast).

In 1742 the Russian Empress Elisabeth assigned the surrounding lands to Field Marshal Stepan Apraxin , on which his descendants built their family residence in 1797 and, among other things, bred Orlov trotters from 1842 onwards , which resulted in a stud that still exists today . In 1882 the Russian imperial family Romanov acquired residence, stud and lands for the heir to the throne Georgi Alexandrovich and, after his death, for Mikhail Alexandrovich . The Brassowo residence , named after the nearby village, was looted after the October Revolution in 1917 and burned down when the Wehrmacht withdrew around 1943. After the railroad was built around the turn of the century, the first industrial operations emerged, including an iron foundry and mechanical factory in 1914.

On October 20, 1931, the administrative seat of the Rajon, which had existed since 1929, was relocated from the eponymous village of Brassowo to the now more important Lokot. In 1938 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

During the Second World War Lokot was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from October 4, 1941 to September 5, 1943 . During this time the settlement - often referred to as the "city" - was the administrative center of the " Republic of Lokot ", a semi-autonomous region under Russian "self-government".

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6.001
1959	7,450
1970	10,005
1979	10,229
1989	11,191
2002	12.094
2010	10,028

Note: census data

traffic

Lokot lies on the opened on that section 1897 railway Nawlja  - lgov , originally part of a direct route Moscow  - Kiev (station Brassowo ; 452 line km from Moscow Kiev railway station ), released today by the Moscow Railway operated.

The M3 trunk road , which connects Moscow with the Ukrainian capital Kiev (part of European route 101 , in Ukraine as M 02 ), passes a few kilometers west of the town .

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)
2. ↑ Website of the Lokot Stud (Russian)
3. ↑ Brasovo Residence of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich to be Reconstructed , June 13, 2018, accessed September 27, 2019
4. ↑ Lokot on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)