Petrovichi (Smolensk)

Village Petrovichi Петровичи Federal district Central Russia Oblast Smolensk Rajon Shumyachi First mention 1403 Height of the center 185  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48133 Post Code 216430 License Plate 67 OKATO 66 256 835 016 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 59 ′  N , 32 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 40 "  N , 32 ° 9 ′ 20"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Smolensk Oblast

Petrovichi ( Russian Петровичи ) is a village (derevnja) in the Russian Oblast of Smolensk .

geography

The village is located in the southern part of the oblast, almost 100 km as the crow flies south of Smolensk and 20 km from the border with Belarus , on the Chornaya Nemka (Black Nemka), a source of the right-hand Ostjor tributary Nemka.

It belongs to Shumyachi Raion and is a good 20 km northwest of its administrative center Shumyachi . Together with 20 other localities (total population 795, as of October 14, 2010) it belongs to the rural community Russkowskoje selskoje posselenije, whose administrative seat Russkoye is about 15 km southeast of Petrovichi.

A local road runs past the village to the east and connects the Shumyatschi district center (not far from the A101 highway ) via Russkoye to the center of the neighboring district of Chislavichi on the R53 regional road.

Sons of the place

• Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), science fiction writer
• Semjon Alexejewitsch Lavochkin (1900–1960), aircraft designer

literature

• Petrovichi , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 582f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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)