Ostrogoshsk

city Ostrogoschsk Ostrogozhsk flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Voronezh Rajon Ostrogoshsk mayor Alexander Boldyrew Founded 1652 City since 1765 surface 22  km² population 33,842 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1538 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47375 Post Code 397850-397855 License Plate 36, 136 OKATO 20 231 501 Website www.ostroadm.vrn.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 52 '  N , 39 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '0 "  N , 39 ° 4' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Voronezh Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Ostrogoschsk ( Russian Острогожск ) is a city in the Voronezh Oblast ( Russia ) with 33,842 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Church in Ostrogoshsk

The city is located on the Central Russian Plate about 140 km south of the Oblast capital Voronezh on the Tichaya Sosna , a right tributary of the Don .

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

The city lies on the railway line Kharkiv - Waluiki - Balaschow - Penza, opened on this section in 1895 .

history

The Czar considered as the official founding 1652, when here at the direction of Alexei Mikhailovich in place an already since the beginning of the century existing settlement one Ostrog in the course of the Belgorod defense line along the former southern boundary of the Tsardom Russia was built. The place name is derived from the name of the Ostrogoschtsch brook , which flows into the Tichaya Sosna here.

In 1765 town charter was granted; In 1779, the city became the administrative center of a district (Ujesds), which it remained within the Voronezh governorate throughout the 19th century .

During the Second World War , Ostrogoschsk was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 5, 1942 and recaptured on January 20, 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front of the Red Army as part of Operation Ostrogoschsk-Rossosh .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	20,983
1926	11,000
1939	11,707
1959	28,403
1970	29,921
1979	34,044
1989	34,492
2002	34,585
2010	33,842

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

A number of merchant houses from the 19th and early 20th centuries have been preserved in Ostrogoshsk.

Ostrogoschsk has a local museum named after the painter Ivan Kramskoi with a picture gallery. The house where the painter was born and where he lived was also converted into a museum.

In the city center there is a memorial stone in memory of a meeting between Peter the Great and the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Masepa , which took place in Ostrogoshsk in 1696.

Personalities

• Anatoly Filipchenko (* 1928), cosmonaut , spent his youth in Ostrogoschsk; Honorary citizen of the city
• Ivan Kramskoi (1837–1887), painter , educator and art critic, born in Ostrogoschsk
• Samuil Marschak (1887–1964), writer, spent childhood and youth in Ostrogoschsk
• Kondrati Rylejew (1795–1826), poet and Decembrist , lived for several years on an estate near Ostrogoschsk and married a landowner's daughter here; wrote the ode of Peter the Great in Ostrogoshsk
• Nikolai Stankewitsch (1813-1840), was born in the nearby village of Uderewka and attended school in Ostrogoschsk

economy

In Ostrogoshsk there are companies in the food and textile industries as well as in the construction industry.

See also

• List of cities in Voronezh Oblast

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 : Ostrogoschsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Unofficial website of the city (Russian, photos)
• Ostrogoschsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)