Sapadnaya Dvina

This article covers the city of Sapadnaya Dvina; to the river of the same name, also Western Dvina, see Düna .

city Sapadnaya Dvina Западная Двина Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Sapadnaya Dvina mayor Yuri Timofeev Founded 1900 City since 1937 surface 13  km² population 9378 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 721 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 185  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48265 Post Code 172610, 172611 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 216 501 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 16 ′  N , 32 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  N , 32 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

List of cities in Russia

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
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

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

• Sapadnaja Dvina on mojgorod.ru (Russian)