Monastyrshchina (Smolensk)

Urban-type settlement Monastyrshchina Монастырщина Federal district Central Russia Oblast Smolensk Rajon Monastyrschinsky Urban-type settlement since 1965 population 4065 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48148 Post Code 216130 License Plate 67 OKATO 66 227 551 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 21 ′  N , 31 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Smolensk Oblast

Monastyrschtschina ( Russian Монасты́рщина ) is an urban-type settlement in the Smolensk Oblast in Russia with 4065 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 50 km as the crow flies south-southwest of the Smolensk Oblast Administrative Center, a good 25 km from the state border with Belarus . It is located on the left bank of the right Sosch tributary Wichra .

Monastyrschtschina is the administrative center of the Monastyrschtschinski Rajons and the seat and only locality of the municipality Monastyrschtschinskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

The place goes back to a monastery (Russian monastyr ), which was there at the turn of the 14th century and gave it its name. From the end of the 18th century Monastyrschtschina belonged to the Ujesd Mstislavl of the Mogiljow governorate . In the course of the 19th century it developed into one of the larger shtetls in the region with a Jewish population of over 80% from the middle of the century.

In 1929 Monastyrschtschina became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from July 16, 1941 to the end of September 1943 . In September 1942 a ghetto for the Jewish population was set up in the village . By February 1942, almost all Jews from Monastyrschina and the Rajon were shot, a total of about 4,000.

In 1965 the place received urban-type settlement status.

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  Church in Monastyrshchina

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  Monument to the Great Patriotic War "Avenue of Heroes"

Population development

year	Residents
1783	216
1897	2696
1939	2755
1959	2159
1970	3555
1979	4760
1989	5166
2002	4622
2010	4065

Note: from 1897 census data

traffic

Regional road 66K-23 leads to Monastyrschtschina, which  branches off the federal highway R120 Oryol  - Bryansk - Smolensk a good 35 km east of the neighboring district center Pochinok . To the southeast the 66K-25 leads to Chislavichi , to the north the 66K-22 leads directly to Smolensk.

The nearest train station on the Bryansk - Smolensk line is in Pochinok.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Peretz Smolenskin (1842–1885), Russian-Hebrew writer and publicist

literature

• Monastyrshchina , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 497

Web links

• Official website of the district administration (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)