Shilovo (Ryazan)

Urban-type settlement Shilovo Chilovo Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ryazan Rajon Shilovo First mention 1147 Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 15,669 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 90  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49136 Post Code 391500-391502 License Plate 62 OKATO 61 258 551 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 19 '  N , 40 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '15 "  N , 40 ° 52' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ryazan Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Schilowo ( Russian Ши́лово ) is an urban-type settlement in the Ryazan Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,669 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the north of the Oka-Don plain and south of the Meschtschora lowlands, about 80 kilometers as the crow flies southeast of the administrative center of Ryazan . It extends on the right bank of the right arm of the Oka , a little above the confluence of the Para .

Shilowo is the administrative center of the Shilowo Rajon of the same name .

history

Before the Mongol invasion of the Rus , the town of Nersk or Nelsk existed in the place of the current settlement in the 11th to 12th centuries . It was first mentioned in the chronicles of 1147 and was an important center of trade and handicrafts. After the destruction by the Mongols, the place was rebuilt and came into the possession of the Shilovsky boyar family in the 14th century . After this he was referred to as Schilowskoje or Schilowo . Towards the end of the 14th century, Shilovo was listed as a "city" in a "List of Ryazan Cities".

After the Principality of Ryazan , to which the town belonged, was finally annexed to the Grand Duchy of Moscow at the beginning of the 16th century, sections of the Verhauline line of the Moscow state , the Saposchoker Line and the Shazker Line , emerged in the area around Shilovo . During this time there was a landing stage on the Oka that was important for the grain trade. Towards the end of the 17th century, Schilowo was only a smaller settlement.

The place took off from the end of the 19th century, when the railway line was passed, which connected Moscow via Ryazan and Rusajewka with Kazan and a little later via Syzran with Samara . On this section, the line was opened on September 13, 1893 by the private company of the Moscow-Kazan Railway .

As part of an administrative reform, Schilowo became the administrative center of a newly founded Rajons in 1929. In 1938 it received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,315
1959	9.424
1970	12,685
1979	13,965
1989	18,374
2002	16,572
2010	15,669

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Schilowo is Dormition Church ( Церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы , Zerkow Uspenija Preswjatoi Bogoroditsy ), also briefly , Uspensky church get that built on the site of an older wooden church in the middle of the 19th century and in 1864 ordained was.

There is a local museum. The museum and its holdings were described in early 2014 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Schilowo there are companies in the building materials industry (sand and clays, precast concrete parts, plastic pipes and tarpaulins) and the food industry (meat, starch, vegetable oil).

The settlement is located on the Moscow - Rusajewka - Samara railway line (308 km). The M5 trunk road runs a few kilometers south of the town and connects Moscow with Chelyabinsk via Samara and Ufa . At Schilowo the regional road 61K-009 branches off from this, which leads down the Oka to Kassimow , while the trunk road leaves the course of the Oka, which it followed from Kolomna at varying distances for more than 150 kilometers.

Schilowo has a landing stage along the inland waterway on the Oka. The Nizhny Novgorod  - Ryazan oil pipeline and the "Central Asia - Center " natural gas pipeline run a little south of the town .

Personalities

Personalities born in Shilovo

• Svetlana Konovalova (* 1990), skier, biathlete

Honorary citizen of Schilowo

• Nikolai Grachev (1930–2013), Army General

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)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Schilowo on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Rajon Schilowo ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Oblast Administration website (in Russian) 
4. ↑ Maria Dormition Church Schilowo at sobory.ru (Russian)
5. ↑ In the Amazon Province in FAZ from January 29, 2014 page 29

Web links

• Shilovo Raion Administration website (Russian)