Sapadnaya Dvina
city
Sapadnaya Dvina
Западная Двина
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Sapadnaja Dvina ( Russian Западная Двина ) is a small town in Tver Oblast ( Russia ) with 9,378 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the southwestern edge of the Waldai heights about 320 kilometers southwest of the oblast capital Tver on the right bank of the Daugava .
Sapadnaya Dvina is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
The city lies on the railway line Moscow - Riga opened on this section in 1901 (route km 378) and on the M9 Moscow - Velikije Luki - Latvian border (further via Rēzekne to Riga).
history
Sapadnaja Dvina was created in 1900 in connection with the construction of a station on the Moscow – Windava railway line . The station and the associated settlement were named after the river Daugava, which in Russian is called Sapadnaya Dvina , Western Dvina .
In 1927 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and in 1937 the town charter .
During the Second World War , Zapadnaya Dvina was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 6, 1941 and recaptured on January 21, 1942 by troops of the Northwestern Front of the Red Army as part of the Toropez-Kholm operation .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 7,512 |
1959 | 8,994 |
1970 | 10,052 |
1979 | 10,316 |
1989 | 11,556 |
2002 | 10,212 |
2010 | 9,378 |
Note: census data
economy
In Sapadnaya Dvina there are companies in the timber, wood processing, textile and food industries.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- Sapadnaja Dvina on mojgorod.ru (Russian)