Petushki

city Petushki Петушки coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Vladimir Rajon Petushinsky mayor Nikolai Kusin Founded 1678 City since 1965 surface 12  km² population 15,148 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1262 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49243 Post Code 601140 License Plate 33 OKATO 17 246 501 Website www.petushki.info Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 56 '  N , 39 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 56 '0 "  N , 39 ° 28' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Vladimir Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Petuschki ( Russian Петушки́ , scientific transliteration Petuški ) is a city in the Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,148 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is 120 km away from the Russian capital Moscow and about 70 km west of the Oblast capital Vladimir on the left of the Klyazma , a left tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

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

history

Near the village of Petuschki, known since 1678 (subsequently Staryje Petuschki , Alt-Petuschki ), a train station of the same name was built in 1861 on the Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod line, around which a station settlement was built. The name represents the Russian plural form for chicken (see city arms). The exact reason for the name is unknown; probably it is derived from the relatively common family name Petuschkow .

In 1926, the station settlement was given the status of an urban-type settlement as Novyje Petuschki ( New Petushki ). In 1929 the place became the administrative center of a Rajons.

On November 11, 1965, the settlement and the old village were merged and town charter was granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1905	1,226
1939	5,936
1959	11,475
1970	12,862
1979	17.602
1989	20,144
2002	16,482
2010	15,148

Note: from 1939 census data

Culture and sights

Shukhov water tower at Petushki station

In Petushki, the Assumption Church ( Свято-Успенская церковь / Swjato-Uspenskaja zerkow) , consecrated in 1910 , is in the "pseudo-Russian" style. The station's water tower is one of the eight hyperboloid structures of Vladimir Shukhov that have survived in Russia .

The city has a local museum (Krajewedtscheski musei) and, since 1997, a cock museum (Musei Petucha), which is mainly dedicated to the representation of cocks in painting and folk art and is located in the cultural center, which is still considered a meeting place in the Soviet style can and is located in the main city square next to the avenue of the fallen soldiers of the Patriotic War and the town hall.

In the vicinity of Petushki are the former country estates of the Vorontsov-Daschkow family from the 18th century and the landowner Karpowa from the 19th century. Local recreation areas such as the Gribower See and the quarry ponds are places of gathering next to the MacDonalds in the city. Inevitably, less than three kilometers away, there is also the estate of the former British John Kopinski "Bogdarnya", who has a "village landscape" with local people Has expanded its products and made it publicly accessible as an attraction and hotel.

Petushki gained particular fame through Wenedikt Erofeev's cult work Die Reise nach Petuschki ( Moscow-Petushki ), which appeared in the samizdat in 1970 , which ostensibly tells the journey of a drunkard with an Elektritschka from Moscow to Petushki and depicts the Soviet reality with sarcastic humor in dark tones, whereby Petuschki can also be understood as a symbol of a lost "provincial nest" or a place of refuge from the lively capital Moscow.

Economy and Infrastructure

Petushki station

In Petuschki there is an electrotechnical (control and measurement technology) and a textile factory as well as companies in the wood processing and food industry (chocolate factory of the Stollwerck Rus company and a Ferrero factory) and the building materials industry.

The city lies on the railway line Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod (km 126), which was opened continuously in 1862 and today a large part of the Trans-Siberian Railway runs on its western section from Moscow. Petushki is the terminus for most suburban trains from Moscow in the direction of Vladimir and (next to Orechowo-Sujewo ) the stop of the Moscow-Vladimir express trains.

The M7 Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan – Perm / Ufa road (part of the European route 22 ) also runs through Petushki .

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 : Petuschki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Petushki on mojgorod.ru (Russian)