Medyn

This article is about the small town in Russia, for information on the village of the same name in western Ukraine, see Medyn (Ukraine) .

city Medyn Медынь coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kaluga Rajon Medyn head Nikolai Koslow First mention 1386 City since 1776 surface 16  km² population 8300 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 519 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (48433) Post Code 249950 License Plate 40 OKATO 29 225 501 Website medyncity.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 58 ′  N , 35 ° 52 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  N , 35 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaluga Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Medyn ( Russian Медынь ) is a small town in the Kaluga Oblast ( Russia ) with 8300 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 60 km northwest of the Oblast capital Kaluga on the Medynka River , a right tributary of the Sukhodrew in the river system of the Volga .

Medyn is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1386 when it passed from the Principality of Smolensk to the Grand Duchy of Moscow . The place name is probably of Baltic origin and refers to the abundance of forests in the area (cf. Lithuanian medis for tree ), but was also interpreted as a derivation from the Russian mjod for honey (cf. bees in the city's coat of arms).

In 1776 the town charter was granted as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds) under the name Medynsk ; subsequently the old form was still used.

During the war against Napoleon in 1812, Russian Cossack troops broke up on October 13th near Medyn ^. / October 25, 1812 ^greg. , one day after the battle of Maloyaroslavets a vanguard of the 5th Corps of the Grande Armée , which was the decisive factor for the subsequent retreat of the French towards Smolensk .

During World War II , Medyn was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 11, 1941 and recaptured on January 14, 1942 by the Western Front of the Red Army as part of the Rzhev-Vyazma operation .

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  In the center of Medyn

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  Church of the Protection and Intercession of the Virgin Mary

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  The Medynka River in the city

Population development

year	Residents
1897	4387
1926	5500
1939	5829
1959	6278
1970	7959
1979	8812
1989	8364
2002	7940
2010	8300

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Economy and Infrastructure

In Medyn there is a furniture factory and factories in the textile and food industries.

The nearest railway station is 15 kilometers west in Myatlevo (station Myatlevskaya ) on the route Vyazma- Kaluga- Uslowaya - Ryashsk .

The A101 Moscow - Roslavl - Belarusian border passes through Medyn .

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. ^ Andrei Popov: Delo pod Medynju (The incident at Medyn) . In: Ot Tarutino do Malojaroslavca. K 190-letiju Malojaroslaveckogo sraženija (From Tarutino to Malojaroslavets. On the 190th anniversary of the Battle of Malojaroslavets) . Zolotaja alleja, Kaluga 2002 ( museum.ru [accessed on October 13, 2008] in the Internet project “1812” ; Russian).

Web links

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

• City administration website (Russian)
• Medyn on mojgorod.ru (Russian)