Novosil

city Novosil Новосиль flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Oryol Rajon Novosil First mention 1155 City since 1777 surface 5  km² population 3658 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 732 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48673 Post Code 303500 License Plate 57 OKATO 54 243 501 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 59 '  N , 37 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 58 '30 "  N , 37 ° 2' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Oryol Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Novosil ( Russian Новосиль ) is a small town in the Oryol Oblast ( Russia ) with 3658 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the Central Russian Plate about 70 km east of the oblast capital Oryol on the right bank of the Suscha , a right tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

Nowosil is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1155 as the Itil fortress of the Principality of Chernigov . At the beginning of the 14th century, it was already the capital of a small, independent principality under the name Novosil .

At the beginning of the 15th century, the city fell to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , towards the end of the century again to the Grand Duchy of Moscow , to whose southern border fortresses it belonged until the 17th century.

In 1777 the town charter as the administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ) was first granted to the governor and then to the Tula governorate .

During the Second World War , Novosil was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on November 13, 1941 , but was recaptured on December 27, 1941 by troops of the Brjansk Front of the Red Army as part of a counter-attack in the direction of Oryol.

Located away from the main transport links, the city has barely developed economically to this day.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	2912
1926	2733
1939	3332
1959	2439
1970	3003
1979	3194
1989	4198
2002	4017
2010	3658

Note: census data (1926-1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

In Novosil a number of buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved, such as the Cathedral of the Mother of God ( собор Божией Матери / sobor Boschjej Materi) from the end of the 18th century, the Church of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan , or Kazan Church for short ( Казанская церковь / Kasanskaja zerkow) from 1802 and stone houses from the 19th century.

In the village of Golun in Novosil district is the former country residence of the Golitsyn family .

economy

In Novosil, as the center of an agricultural area, there are companies in the food industry.

Nearest railway station is Sale Gosch sealed at the 1870 opened distance Orjol- Yelets - gryazi at 14 Kilometers away. By Novosil the regional road leads Orjol- Efremov .

sons and daughters of the town

• Vyacheslav Polunin (born 1950), clown

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

• Novosil on mojgorod.ru (Russian)