Rossosh

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Rossosch (disambiguation) .

city Rossosh Россошь flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Voronezh Rajon Rossosh mayor Viktor Kvassov First mention 1721 City since 1923 surface 59  km² population 62,865 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1066 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 85  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47396 Post Code 396650-396660 License Plate 36, 136 OKATO 20 247 501 Website www.rossosh.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 12 '  N , 39 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '0 "  N , 39 ° 35' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Voronezh Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Rossosh ( Russian Россошь ) is a Russian city ​​with 62,865 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Voronezh Oblast . It is located near the Ukrainian border, around 210 km south of the regional capital Voronezh , on the left bank of the Chornaya Kalitva (the Don river system ). The closest city is Pavlovsk , which is also located in Voronezh Oblast, 46 km northeast of Rossosh.

history

At the end of the 16th century, the southern Russian steppe was conquered by Tsar Peter the Great , and villages were founded to protect against attacks, including Rossosh, which was first mentioned in a document in 1721. Up until the 19th century, Rossosh was a village that had around 5,500 inhabitants in the 1850s.

Rossosh train station

In the later 19th century, especially after the completion of the railway from Voronezh to Rostov-on-Don in 1871, the place developed into a local center for trade in agricultural products. A little later, industrialization began here with the construction of a sugar factory .

During the Second World War , a successful offensive of the Red Army against the German Wehrmacht took place in January 1943 in the Ostrogoschsk / Rossosch area . Previously, the city was temporarily under German control and was heavily damaged in numerous air raids, which were primarily intended to hit the local railway junction.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	8,800
1926	16,300
1939	17.160
1959	30.184
1970	36,438
1979	44,019
1989	57.029
2002	62,923
2010	62,865

Note: census data (rounded up to 1926)

economy

Due to its location in the fertile black earth region , the area around Rossosch is still agricultural today, and the city is dominated by the food industry. There are also smaller companies in the fertilizer and building materials industries in Rossosh.

sons and daughters of the town

• Sergei Denisov (1909–1971), Lieutenant General
• Yuri Dumchev (1958-2016), discus thrower
• Lev Lobodin (* 1969), decathlete

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)
2. ↑ Денисов Сергей Прокофьевич , warheroes.ru (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Rossosh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city (Russian)
• Rossosh on mojgorod.ru (Russian)