Mtsensk

city Mtsensk Мценск flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Oryol Urban district Mtsensk head Anton Nikolajewitsch Beljajew (since 2016) First mention 1147 City since 1778 surface 20  km² population 43,222 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2161 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48646 Post Code 303030-303036 License Plate 57 OKATO 54 410 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 17 '  N , 36 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '0 "  N , 36 ° 34' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Oryol Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Mtsensk ( Russian Мценск ) is a town and Rajon -Zentrum with 43,222 inhabitants (14 October 2010) in Russia . It is located in Oryol Oblast , 49 km northeast of the regional capital Oryol .

After Oryol and Livnyy , Mtsensk is the third largest city in the oblast.

history

Mtsensk, Church of the Assumption

The first documentary mention of Mtsensk comes from the year 1147. At that time the place belonged to the Principality of Chernihiv . In the 14th and 15th centuries Mtsensk was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , in 1504 it came to Moscow and initially served as a fortress on the southern principality's borders. The fortress had to withstand attacks from the south several times, for example by Crimean Tatars in 1562 . In the 17th century, however, Mtsensk lost its strategic importance after Moscow expanded further south. Since then, Mtsensk has been considered a rather insignificant provincial town with a predominantly agricultural population.

In 1778 Mtsensk received city rights. At that time, the grain trade was developing there. In the 19th century, the city's first industrial operations, including textile factories that produced lace .

During the Second World War , Mtsensk was contested as one of the southern Moscow outposts and was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in October 1941 . On July 20, 1943, the city was recaptured by the German citadel (also known as the “Battle of the Kursk Arch”) during the advance of the Brjansk Front by the Red Army .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	9,823
1939	11,480
1959	14,266
1970	27,833
1979	41,790
1989	48,400
2002	47,807
2010	43,222

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Mtsensk Railway Station in June 2015

The number of industrial plants in Mtsensk is not very large even today; there are textile factories and an aluminum foundry belonging to the Likhachev plant in Moscow .

Mtsensk has a railway connection and a long-distance station on the main line Moscow - Tula - Kursk - Belgorod . The M2 trunk road also runs near the city .

Attractions

About 15 km north of Mtsensk lies Spasskoje-Lutowinowo, the birthplace of the writer Ivan Turgenev . Today a museum complex has been set up there.

A number of historic church buildings have been preserved in Mtsensk, including the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1670s) and the Trinity Church (1777). In place of the Nikolayev Cathedral Church, which was blown up in the 1930s, the Nikolaus Chapel was built in 1996.

In Mtsensk there is also the Park of Culture and Recreation , which was opened in 1934 and is now one of the natural and horticultural monuments of the Russian Federation. The park festival is celebrated on May 1st of each year.

Town twinning

Mtsensk has been twinned with the Bulgarian city ​​of Kubrat since 1980 .

Others

The city lent its name to the story The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and the opera of the same name based on it.

sons and daughters of the town

• Andrei Kisseljow (1852–1940), mathematician and mathematics teacher
• Iwan Schegalkin (1869–1947), logician and mathematician
• Arkady Yermakov (1899–1957), General

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. ↑ Ермаков Аркадий Николаевич , encyclopedia.mil.ru (Russian)

Web links

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

• Unofficial city portal (Russian)
• Entry about Mtsensk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)