Sadonsk

city Sadonsk Задонск flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Lipetsk Rajon Sadonsk Founded 1615 City since September 25, 1779 surface 7  km² population 9698 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1385 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47471 Post Code 399200 License Plate 48 OKATO 42 224 501 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 23 '  N , 38 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '0 "  N , 38 ° 55' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Lipetsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sadonsk ( Russian Задонск ) is a city in Lipetsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 9,698 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the Central Russian Plate about 90 km southwest of the Oblast capital Lipetsk on the left bank of the Don , at the confluence of the Teschewka River .

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

history

Vladimir Cathedral in Sadonsk

In the cathedral

The village of Teschewka , which was first mentioned in a document in 1615, was built in the place of today's town at the beginning of the 17th century . In 1610, not far from the monks Kirill and Gerassim, the monastery of the Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir , or Mother of God Monastery, was founded, to which the village subsequently belonged.

In 1765, under Tsarina Catherine the Great, the land of the monastery and with it the village of Teschewka fell to the state. On September 25, 1779, the place received city rights as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds) under its current name (from Russian sa Donom , for behind the Don ). In 1782 a general development plan for the city was confirmed.

From 1769 until his death in 1783, the former Voronezh bishop Tikhon (secular name Timofei Sokolowski) lived in the Sadonsk monastery. As one of the most influential religious scholars of the 18th century, he was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as Tikhon of Sadonsk in 1861 , after which the monastery with the Tikhon relics developed into an important place of pilgrimage .

In the 1920s the monastery was closed by the Soviet authorities. In 1990 the monastery was returned to the church and the Vladimir Cathedral was re- consecrated .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	7,507
1926	5,100
1939	6,904
1959	8,120
1970	9,246
1979	10,331
1989	11,186
2002	10,473
2010	9,698

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

The river Teschewka, in the background the monastery

In Zadonsk the building ensemble of are Lady convent ( Богородицкий монастырь / Bogorodizki monastyr) to the Vladimir cathedral ( Владимирский собор / Wladimirski sobor) 1845-1853 (architect Konstantin Thon obtained) and other churches, also outside the convent the Assumption Church ( Успенская церковь / Uspenskaja zerkow) from 1800 and a number of secular buildings from the 19th century.

The town has a local history museum in the former house of the pharmacist Ulrich from the beginning of the 19th century.

In the village Kaschary of Rajons Zadonsk standing Mitrofan-of-Voronezh Church ( церковь Митрофания Воронежского / Zerkow Mitrofanija Woroneschskogo) with the associated Automon Bell Tower ( колокольня Автомона / kolokolnja Awtomona) from 1823. In the village Skornjakowo is the former country residence of the general and Heroes of the Crimean War Nikolai Muravjow-Karski , who died there in 1866. There is a manor park ensemble in the village of Repez .

Economy and Infrastructure

There are food processing plants in Sadonsk.

The nearest railway station is Ulussarka on the route ( Moscow -) Jelets - Waluiki 25 kilometers northwest. The M4 Moscow – Voronezh – Rostov-on-Don – Novorossiysk highway bypasses Sadonsk to the south.

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 : Sadonsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website about the city (Russian)
• Sadonsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)