Morshansk

city Morshansk Morshansk flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tambov Urban district Morshansk mayor Gennady Kalinin Founded 1623 City since 1779 surface 19  km² population 41,556 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2187 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47533 Post Code 393950-393960 License Plate 68 OKATO 68 420 Website gorodmorshansk.tamb.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 27 '  N , 41 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '0 "  N , 41 ° 48' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tambov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Morschansk ( Russian Моршанск ) is a city in Russia . It is located on the Zna River in the Tambov Oblast around 90 kilometers north of the regional capital Tambov and is the fourth largest city in the Oblast with 41,556 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

It is not known when the first settlements appeared on the site of today's Morshansk. According to tradition, a settlement called Morscha already existed there in the 16th century.

Until the 18th century the settlement developed into an important trading center for grain and numerous other agricultural goods, thanks to its location on the Zna river, which is navigable from here and flows into the Volga via Mokscha and Oka .

Due to the economic importance of the settlement, it was given city ​​rights in 1779 by decree of Catherine the Great . In addition to trade, the tobacco and textile industries developed in Morshansk, both of which shape the city's economic life to this day.

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 64 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . Seriously ill people were cared for in the prisoner-of-war hospital in 2022 .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	26,458
1926	27,796
1939	35.193
1959	40,924
1970	44,245
1979	47,655
1989	50,055
2002	44,486
2010	41,556

Note: census data

architecture

Trinity Cathedral

One of the most distinctive buildings in the city of Morschansk is the Russian Orthodox Trinity Cathedral (Russian Троицкий собор ) based on the model of the Saint Petersburg Trinity Cathedral by Vasily Stasov .

The Morschansk Trinity Cathedral took over 20 years to build before it was inaugurated in 1857. The cathedral, which is externally reminiscent of its St. Petersburg counterpart, is still one of the largest buildings in the city. After the October Revolution , the church was looted by the Bolsheviks and turned into a food warehouse.

The renovation of the building began in 1978, but ten years later it was destroyed by a fire. In 1990 the Russian Orthodox Church finally got the cathedral back, whereupon it was renovated again and is now used as a place of worship again.

sons and daughters of the town

• Boris von Vietinghoff-Scheel (1829–1901), composer
• Jewgeni Lansere (1848–1886), sculptor
• Alexander Mikhailov (1888–1983), astronomer
• Vsevolod Bobrov (1922–1979), football and ice hockey player
• Vladimir Ruschailo (* 1953), politician

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. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.

Web links

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

• Official website gorodmorshansk.tamb.ru
• Unofficial portal morshansk.ru
• Morshansk on mojgorod.ru
• Photo gallery with today's motifs
• Photo gallery with historical motifs