Safonovo

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

city Safonovo Сафоново coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Smolensk Rajon Safonovo mayor Vyacheslav Balalaev First mention 1859 City since 1952 surface 38  km² population 46,116 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1214 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48142 Post Code 215502-215506 License Plate 67 OKATO 66 241 501 Website admin.smolensk.ru/~safon Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 6 ′  N , 33 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Smolensk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Safonowo ( Russian Сафоново ) is a Russian district town with 46,116 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Smolensk Oblast . It lies in the west of the country near the border with Belarus , 102 km north-east of the regional capital Smolensk , on Dnepr influx Wopez . The closest town is Dorogobusch , 20 km south of Safonowo.

history

The first mention of the village Safonowo not far from the road from Moscow to Smolensk comes from the year 1859. At the end of the 19th century a railway line was laid parallel to the road, which also runs close to Safonowo. In 1929 the place became the administrative center of the newly formed raion of the same name within the Smolensk Oblast. With the mining of lignite near Safonowo from the 1930s onwards, the place was expanded into a workers' settlement, which was given the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938 and finally town status in 1952.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3,589
1959	31,709
1970	45,949
1979	52,954
1989	56,571
2002	48.209
2010	46.116

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Lenin Street in Safonovo

The city has chemical factories as well as machine and equipment manufacturing, as well as a brick factory and an asphalt factory. The former lignite mining with nine pits was stopped in the 1980s and 1990s due to low profitability.

Safonowo is located on the Russian M 1 trunk road ( European route 30 ), which runs from Moscow to Minsk. Safonowo has a train station on the Moscow – Smolensk – Minsk – Warsaw railway line.

The main axis of the city center is the Ulitsa Lenina ( Lenin Street), on which the most representative buildings of the city, the central park and the Lenin monument are located and which ends at the Eternal Flame and the Palace of Culture behind it. The other streets in the city center are aligned with this.

Web links

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

• City's unofficial website (Russian)
• Entry about Safonowo 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)