Oboyan

city Oboyan Обоянь coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kursk Rajon Oboyan Founded 1639 City since 1779 surface 11  km² population 13,565 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1233 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47141 Post Code 306230 License Plate 46 OKATO 38 226 501 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 13 ′  N , 36 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  N , 36 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kursk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Obojan ( Russian Обоянь ) is a city in Kursk Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,565 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the southern part of the Central Russian Plate about 60 km south of the Oblast capital Kursk at the mouth of the Obojanka River on the high right bank of the Psjol , a left tributary of the Dnieper .

Obojan is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

history

In his History of the Russian State (1818), Nikolai Karamsin connects the city ​​of Wejachan (also Bejachan ), mentioned in Old Russian chronicles for 1147, with the city of Obojan, but there is no reliable knowledge about this.

Today's Obojan was built in 1639 as a fortress on what was then the southern border of the Russian Empire. The name after the originally Bojan or Bajan , which flows into the Psjol river, is probably of Turkic origin.

In 1779 the town charter was granted as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds).

During the Second World War , Obojan was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on November 16, 1941 and was recaptured on February 18, 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front of the Red Army as part of the Battle of Kharkov .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	11,832
1926	5,700
1939	7,850
1959	11,894
1970	13,409
1979	14,359
1989	15,360
2002	14,618
2010	13,565

Note: census data (1926-1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

The center of Obojan has retained its small-town character with two-story merchant houses and other buildings from the 19th century, such as the girls' high school. These are dominated by the monumental, five-domed Alexander Nevsky Cathedral ( собор Александра Невского / sobor Alexandra Newskogo) from 1907. In addition, the Trinity Cathedral ( Троицкий собор / Troitski sobor) and the Church of the Icon of Our Lady of Smolensk , Smolensk Church for short ( Смоленская церковь / Smolenskaja zerkow) have been preserved.

In Obojan there is a memorial complex for the Red Army soldiers who died in the Battle of Kursk Arch in 1943.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Obojan there has been a chipboard plant and food processing plants since 1947 .

The city is the end of a 32 kilometer long railway line that branches off the Moscow – Kursk – Kharkiv line in Pristen ( Rschawa station ) (freight traffic only). This line was opened in 1881 as a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 914 mm, which is rare in Russia , and switched to broad gauge from 1936 to 1937 .

The M2 Moscow – Kursk – Belgorod highway - Ukrainian border runs through Obojan and continues to Kharkiv (part of European route 105 ).

sons and daughters of the town

• Wassili Petrow (1761–1834), physicist and chemist
• Yevgeny Klewzow (1929–2003), cyclist

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

• Obojan on mojgorod.ru (Russian)