Novosokolniki

city Novosokolniki Новосокольники coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Pskov Rajon Novosokolniki Founded 1901 City since 1925 surface 16  km² population 8119 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 507 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 135  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81144 Post Code 182200 License Plate 60 OKATO 58 226 501 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 21 '  N , 30 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 21 '0 "  N , 30 ° 9' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Pskov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Novosokolniki ( Russian: Новосокольники ) is a small town in the Pskov Oblast ( Russia ) with 8119 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the southern part of the heights of Beschanizy about 290 kilometers southeast of the oblast capital Pskow on the river Little Udrai ( Maly Udrai ) in the river system of the Lowat .

Nowosokolniki is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

The city lies at the intersection of the railway lines Moscow - Riga opened in 1901 (line km 506) and the line St. Petersburg - Dno - Newel - Vitebsk (line km 421) opened in 1904 .

history

Novosokolniki was created around 1900 in connection with the construction of a station on the Moscow – Windawa railway line .

The station and the associated settlement were named after the former town of Sokolniki , which was 10 kilometers away and belonged to the Vitebsk governorate . Nowosokolniki means New Sokolniki ; the road from Velikiye Luki to Sokolniki passed here. The name is derived from the Russian ( Slavic ) word sokol for falcon (see also city arms).

In 1925 the town was granted city rights.

During the Second World War , Novosokolniki was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 25, 1941 and recaptured on January 29, 1944 by troops of the 2nd Baltic Front of the Red Army as part of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	9.004
1959	9,478
1970	9,732
1979	10,755
1989	10,689
2002	9,757
2010	8,119

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The church of the Kiev- Pechorsk Mother of God ( церковь Киево-Печёрской Богоматери / zerkow Kijewo-Pschorskoi Bogomateri) from the 19th century is in the village of Novoje . Near the Wallburg Ostri from the 12th to 13th century.

Infrastructure

In the vicinity of Nowosokolniki there has been a 360-meter-high transmission mast for broadcasting VHF radio and television programs since 1995.

economy

In Novosokolniki there are not only railroad companies but also textile and food industries.

Web links

• Novosokolniki on mojgorod.ru (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)