Pochinok

city Pochinok Починок Federal district Central Russia Oblast Smolensk Rajon Pochinok Founded 1868 City since 1926 surface 7  km² population 8776 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1254 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 205  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48149 Post Code 216450 License Plate 67 OKATO 66 233 501 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 24 '  N , 32 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 24 '0 "  N , 32 ° 27' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Smolensk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Potschinok ( Russian Починок ) is a small Russian town with 8,776 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in Smolensk Oblast . It is the administrative center of the Oblast Rajon of the same name .

location

Pochinok is located some 400 kilometers west of Moscow on the outskirts of Smolensk hills , on the banks of the right Sosch -Nebenflusses Chmara . The distance to the northern regional capital Smolensk is around 50 km, other neighboring cities are Jelnja and Roslavl . The border between Russia and Belarus runs about 50 km southwest of Pochinok .

history

Potschinok was created in 1868 as a station settlement on the newly laid railway line Roslavl – Smolensk. The place name comes from a previously existing small village in this area, the name of which is very widespread in the Smolensk region as a village name. In old Russian usage it means something like "newly founded settlement".

By the end of the 19th century, the place quickly developed into a trading center for regional agricultural products. In 1924 Pochinok became the district center, and two years later the city was named. From July 1941 to September 1943 the city was under the control of the German Wehrmacht during World War II . At that time there were 280 Jews in Pochinok, less than 10% of the population. The Jews who could not escape were ghettoized in a building and murdered on April 21, 1942.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3,182
1959	7,688
1970	9,632
1979	10,887
1989	10,753
2002	9,578
2010	8,776

Note: census data

economy

The city's current industrial landscape is largely limited to businesses that are involved in agriculture and the processing of its products.

Personalities

• El Lissitzky (1890–1941), painter, born in Potschinok
• Alexander Twardowski (1910–1971), poet, born near Potschinok

literature

• Pochinok , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 602

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

• Potschinok on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Story of Pochinok (Russian)
• Pochinok Local History Museum (Russian)