Luga (Leningrad)
city
Luga
Луга
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List of cities in Russia |
Luga ( Russian Лу́га ) is a city in Leningrad Oblast in Russia .
geography
location
It is located on the river of the same name , 139 km south of Saint Petersburg and 100 km west of Veliky Novgorod .
population
The city has 38,593 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
year | Residents |
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1897 | 5,617 |
1939 | 28,010 |
1959 | 25,540 |
1970 | 31,905 |
1979 | 37,680 |
1989 | 41,769 |
2002 | 40,434 |
2010 | 38,593 |
Note: census data
history
The city was founded in 1777 on the decree of Catherine the Great on the banks of the Luga; a settlement at this point had been known since the 10th century. The name of the river comes from an Ischoric word (comparisons: Estonian laugas = German "swamp"). In 1781 the newly founded city was assigned to the Petersburg governorate . Luga received a railway connection in 1857. At the end of the 19th century there were two factories and only a few brick buildings. In 1908 the composer Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow died nearby on the Lyubensk estate . Until the 20th century it was a rather insignificant city.
In January 1921, a mixed train from Novgorod to Petrograd , which was also transporting gasoline , exploded near Luga while driving at full speed. 68 people died.
In 1927 Luga became the administrative center of a Rajon within Leningrad Oblast. During the Second World War , the city was occupied by the Wehrmacht from August 24, 1941 to February 12, 1944 . It served as a replenishment coordination center and was the scene of intense fighting.
Economy and Infrastructure
Today there are several smaller industrial companies in the city, while agriculture is predominant in the surrounding area. The M20 trunk road and the St. Petersburg – Pskov – Warsaw railway line run through the city .
sons and daughters of the town
- Alexander Solovyov (1846–1879), assassin
- Peter V. Karpovich (1896–1975), Russian-American sports physician
- Georgi Zažitski (* 1946), fencer
- Vladimir Bystrow (* 1984), football player
See also
Web links
- Unofficial city website (Russian)
- Luga on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
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)