Pustoschka

city Pustoschka Пустошка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Pskov Rajon Pustoschka Founded 1901 City since 1925 surface 11  km² population 4619 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 420 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81142 Post Code 182300 License Plate 60 OKATO 58 250 501 Website http://pustoshka.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 20 ′  N , 29 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Pskov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Pustoschka ( Russian Пустошка ) is a small town in the Pskov Oblast ( Russia ) with 4619 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Velikaya level about 190 kilometers south of the Oblasthauptstadt Pskov on the river Krupaja and the Krupeiskoje Lake in the catchment area of the Velikaya .

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

The city lies on the railway line Moscow - Riga opened on this section in 1901 (route kilometer 558). The M9 Moscow - Velikije Luki - Latvian border (further via Rēzekne to Riga) and the M20 from Saint Petersburg to Newel and further via Belarus to the Ukraine ( Kiev , Odessa ) cross near Pustoschka .

history

Pustoschka was built around 1900 as a station settlement in connection with the construction of the Moscow – Windawa railway line .

In 1925 city charter was granted.

During the Second World War , Pustoschka was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 16, 1941 . The seventy Jews remaining in Pustoschka were ghettoized in February 1942 and murdered by the Germans in early March 1942. On February 27, 1944, the site was recaptured by troops from the Red Army’s 2nd Baltic Front as part of the Staraya-Russa-Novorschewer operation .

Population development

year	Residents
1926	1600
1939	2591
1959	3380
1970	4575
1979	5434
1989	6332
2002	5509
2010	4619

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

At the village Sawolotschje am See Podzo are several tumuli groups from the second half of the 1st millennium BC.

economy

In Pustoschka there are companies in the timber industry and the food industry.

literature

• Pustoshka , 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. 625

Web links

• City administration website (Russian)
• Pustoschka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)