Rudnja (Smolensk)

city Rudnja Рудня coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Smolensk Rajon Rudnja First mention 1363 City since 1926 surface 17  km² population 10,030 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 590 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 190  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48141 Post Code 216790 License Plate 67 OKATO 66 238 501 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 57 '  N , 31 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 57 '0 "  N , 31 ° 4' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Smolensk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Rudnja ( Russian Рудня ) is a small town in Smolensk Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,030 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Vitebsk Heights near the western border of Russia about 70 kilometers northwest of the Oblast capital Smolensk on the Little Beresina (Malaya Beresina), a tributary of the Beresina flowing into the Dnieper (not to be confused with the Bjaresina ).

Rudnja is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The town lies on the opened on that section 1868 railway Smolensk- Vitebsk - Polotsk (pre-1917 part of the Riga - Oryol Railway ).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1363 as a settlement Rodnja .

Later the current form of name was used, under which the place received city rights in 1926.

During the Second World War , Rudnja was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 14, 1941 and recaptured on September 29, 1943 by troops of the Kalinin Front of the Red Army as part of the Duchowschtschina-Demidow operation .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	4,100
1939	7,347
1959	8,152
1970	10,438
1979	11,019
1989	11,032
2002	9,853
2010	10,030

Note: Census data (1897 rounded)

Culture and sights

Katyusha monument in Rudnja

In Rudnja there is a historical museum and a Mikhail Yegorov memorial museum .

In the village of Lyubawitschi the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ( Успенская церковь / Uspenskaja zerkow) from the 18th century and the Jewish cemetery have been preserved, in the village of Mikulino the Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya zerkow) from the 19th century.

Personalities

• Mikhail Yegorov (1923–1975), Sergeant of the Red Army , Hero of the Soviet Union , one of the soldiers who hoisted the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building on April 30, 1945 ; born in Yermoshenki near Rudnja.

economy

In Rudnja, as the center of an agricultural area, there are mainly companies in the food industry; a glassworks in the nearby settlement of Golynki .

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 : Rudnja  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Rudnja on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• City history (Russian)