Rylsk

city Rylsk Рыльск flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kursk Rajon Rylsk First mention 1152 City since 1779 surface 17  km² population 15,671 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 922 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47152 Post Code 307370 License Plate 46 OKATO 38 234 501 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 34 ′  N , 34 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  N , 34 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kursk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Rylsk ( Russian Рыльск ) is a city in the Kursk Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,671 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 125 km southeast of the Oblast capital Kursk on the right bank of the Seim , a left tributary of the Desna, which flows into the Dnieper .

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

history

Rylsk was first mentioned in 1152 as a large settlement in the principality of Novgorod-Seversky ( Severien ). The name is derived from the Slavic root ryt for dig ; Rylo or Ryla is also the name of a river nearby; rylo also means (pig) snout (see later city arms from the 19th century). The Russian Orthodox Church , however, connects the place name with Saint Iwan Rilski (Russian spelling Rylski ); he is considered the patron saint of the city.

At the beginning of the 13th century, Rylsk was the center of an autonomous principality.

In the middle of the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania took over the city. In 1454 the Polish King Casimir IV gave the city as a fief to Prince Ivan Shemyaka, who had fled from Russia. However, his son Vasily Ivanovich submitted to the Grand Duchy of Moscow again in 1522 .

From the 16th to the early 18th century, Rylsk was a defensive point on the southern border of the Russian Empire and at the same time an important trading point with the (Polish) Ukraine .

In 1779 the modern town charter was granted as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds).

During the Second World War , Rylsk was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 5, 1941 and recaptured on August 31, 1943 by troops of the Central Front of the Red Army while advancing towards Chernihiv and Pripyat .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	11,549
1926	10,700
1939	12,401
1959	12,653
1970	16,398
1979	18,318
1989	19,472
2002	17.603
2010	15,671

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

In Rylsk you can find the Assumption Cathedral ( Успенский собор / Uspenski sobor) from 1811, the Cathedral of the Protection and Intercession of the Virgin Mary ( Покровский собор / Pokrowski sobor) from 1822 and the Resurrection Church ( весескровека from 1866 In addition, the ensemble of the Nikolaikloster, known since 1505 ( Никольский монастырь / Nikolski monastyr) and the trading series from the 18th and early 19th centuries have been preserved.

The city has a local museum.

20 kilometers to the east, near the village of Ivanovskoye in the Rylsk district, is the former country residence of the hetman Mazepa with several preserved buildings. Nearby is the former Marjino estate of the Barjatinski family, which includes an extensive landscape park with artificial watercourses, rotundas, pavilions and sculptures.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Rylsk there are light and food industries as well as the construction industry.

The town is the terminus of a 24-kilometer railway line , which in Korenewo the track Kiev  - Kursk branches (only freight). This line was opened in 1894 as a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 1000 mm and initially continued to Sudscha . While the Korenywo - Sudscha section was closed between 1924 and 1928, the line to Rylsk was switched to broad gauge from 1957 to 1958 .

The regional road 38K-017 (formerly R199), Kursk - Lgow  - Ukrainian border (from there to Hluchiw ) runs through Rylsk .

Personalities

• Grigori Schelichow (1747–1795), navigator and entrepreneur, born in Rylsk
• Lev Kamenew (1833–1886), landscape painter, born in Rylsk
• Georgi Kurdjumow (1902–1996), physicist and metallurgist, born in Rylsk

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 : Rylsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Unofficial Portal (Russian)
• Rylsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)