Nizhnedevitsk

Village Nizhnedevitsk Нижнедевицк coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Voronezh Rajon Nizhnedevitsky Village since 1928 population 5839 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47370 Post Code 396870 License Plate 36, 136 OKATO 20 223 828 001 Website nizdevick.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 33 '  N , 38 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '50 "  N , 38 ° 21' 50"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Voronezh Oblast

Nizhnedevizk ( Russian: Нижнедеви́цк ) is a village (selo) and former city in the Voronezh Oblast ( Russia ) with 5839 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is about 60 kilometers as the crow flies west-southwest of the oblast capital Voronezh and a good 5 kilometers from the border with Kursk Oblast . It is predominantly located on the right bank of the Dewiza , the upper (more northern) and slightly larger of two rivers of this name that flow into the Don from the right on the territory of the oblast .

Nizhnedevizk is the administrative center of the Rajons Nizhnedevizky and the seat of the rural community Nizhnedevizkoje selskoje posselenije, which also includes the two villages Bor (4 km south-southeast) and Log (3 km north). The settlement of the same name (possjolok) Nizhnedevizk at the railway station about 15 km to the north also belongs to the Rajon, but to the rural community Novoolschanskoje selskoje Posselenije with its seat in the village of Novaya Olschanka .

history

The place was founded towards the end of the 17th century by resettlers from the areas around Stary Oskol and Zemlyansk under the initial name Nizhnyaya Dewiza ("Lower Dewiza", after the river). At first he belonged to the Ujesd Stary Oskol of the Belgorod governorate . With the formation of the governorship Voronezh in 1779, the place was handed over to them and the seat of a new Ujesd; In this function, the place received city rights under its current name. In 1796 the Ujesd passed to the Voronezh governorate .

With the dissolution of the Ujesd in 1928, Nizhnedevizk lost its town charter and has been a village ever since; on July 30, 1928, however, it became the administrative seat of a Rajon named after him. During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 3, 1942 as they advanced on Voronezh and was recaptured by the Red Army as part of the Voronezh-Kastornoje operation on January 28, 1943, when they managed to move northwest of the place in Encircling large parts of the German 2nd Army and the Hungarian 2nd Army in the direction of Kastornoje .

From 1963 to January 12, 1965, the Rajon was temporarily dissolved and its territory attached to the neighboring Chocholski rajon to the east.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	2409
1926	2272
1939	2394
1959	3445
1970	5397
1979	6082
1989	6736
2002	6409
2010	5839

Note: census data

traffic

The federal highway R298 Kursk  - Voronezh - Borisoglebsk runs north of Nizhnedevizk . In a northerly direction, the regional road 20N-1-15 branches off to the settlement of Nizhnedevizk a good 15 km north, with the railway station of the same name at kilometer 176 of the Kursk - Voronezh line opened in 1894.

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 : Nizhnedevitsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)