Michurinsk

city Michurinsk Michurinsk flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tambov Urban district Michurinsk mayor Viktor Makarov Founded 1635 Earlier names Koslow City since 1779 surface 78  km² population 98,758 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1266 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47545 Post Code 393760-393779 License Plate 68 OKATO 68 415 Website michurinsk.org.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 54 ′  N , 40 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 40 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tambov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Michurinsk ( Russian Мичуринск ) is a Russian city ​​with 98,758 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and the Rajon administrative center in Tambov Oblast .

geography

The city is located at a railway junction in the fertile Oka-Don plain on the Lesnoi Voronezh River in the headwaters of the Voronezh , around 400 km southeast of Moscow and 67 km west of the regional capital Tambov . The closest towns are Chaplygin (52 km northwest) and Gryazi (57 km southwest), both located in the neighboring Lipetsk Oblast .

history

Coat of arms (until 2003)

Michurinsk was founded in 1636 as a fortress named Kozlov (Козлов) after the family name of one of the first settlers. Originally intended as protection against Tatar attackers from the Crimea , the village had an extensive defense system with an earth wall, the remains of which are still visible in places today.

Michurinsk City Hall

In the 17th century the military importance of the fortress gradually declined. Instead, wood was increasingly extracted in the wooded area around Koslow and warships have been built from it since the 1650s, for which a shipyard at Lesnoi Voronezh (literally "Forest Voronezh") was built.

After the borders of the Russian state had expanded so far to the south in the 18th century that Kozlov was no longer able to play a military role, it developed into a trading center. The fertile soils also favored agriculture to a large extent. In 1779 Koslow was given town status, and in the 19th century it was impossible to imagine Koslow without a brisk trade in various agricultural products. This was further facilitated by the construction of the railway lines that connected Kozlov to the Russian rail network. By the end of the 19th century, around 40,000 people were already living in the city.

In 1932 Koslow was renamed Michurinsk after the important Russian botanist Ivan Michurin , who had lived here since 1872 and mainly researched in the agricultural sector.

Population development

year	Residents		year	Residents		year	Residents
1897	40.297		1959	80,653		1989	109,081
1926	54,250		1970	93,623		2002	96.093
1939	71,515		1979	101,239		2010	98,758

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Michurinsk-Voronezhsky railway station

The city's location in the fertile black earth region has a particularly economic impact. In addition to mechanical engineering and light industry, there are food processing companies. Since Michurinsk has not only been regarded as an agricultural town since the work of Ivan Michurin, but also as a center of scientific research in this area, it received the status of a Naukograd (" City of Science") in 2003 .

Michurinsk is located on the M6 trunk road and is a railway junction where the lines to Lipetsk and Tambov cross. For this reason there are also larger railway workshops in the city.

Attractions

Cathedral dedicated to the Icon of Our Lady of Bogoljubowo in Michurinsk (based on a design by Konstantin Thons)

As one of the cities in central Russia that was not affected by fighting in World War II , Michurinsk has an extremely well-preserved old town with a number of architectural monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries. These include above all the Church of the Prophet Elijah (1781) and the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Bogoljubowo (1873). The latter was built based on a design by the renowned architect Konstantin Thon and is similar in shape to Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior .

Further educational institutions

• Michurinsk State Agricultural University
• Michurinsk State Pedagogical Institute

Twin cities

Michurinsk has been twinned with Munster in Lower Saxony since 1991 .

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Gerasimow (1881–1963), painter
• Georges Wellers (1905–1991), French physiologist and biochemist
• Vladimir Seldin (1915-2016), actor
• Pitirim von Wolokolamsk and Jurjew (1926–2003), Russian Orthodox priest, bishop, archbishop and metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church
• Irina Lankova (* 1977), Belgian classical concert pianist

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

Commons : Michurinsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Culture and Sport in Michurinsk (Russian)
• Official website of the city (Russian)
• Unofficial web portal (Russian)
• Michurinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)