Sebesch

city Sebezh Себеж coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Pskov Rajon Sebesch First mention 1414 City since 1772 surface 8  km² population 6375 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 797 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81 140 Post Code 182250, 182251 License Plate 60 OKATO 58 254 501 Website http://www.sebezh.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 17 ′  N , 28 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 28 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Pskov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sebesch ( Russian Себеж ) is a small town in the Pskov Oblast ( Russia ) with 6375 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 190 kilometers south of the oblast capital Pskow between the lakes Orono and Sebeschskoje in the catchment area of ​​the Daugava .

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

The city lies on the railway line Moscow - Riga opened on this section in 1901 (route km 617). The Sebesch train station is a border station . The city is also on the M9 Moscow - Velikije Luki - Latvian border road (further via Rēzekne to Riga).

history

Wooden chapel in Sebezh

German war cemetery at Sebesh - information board.

Sebesch was first mentioned in the chronicles of the Pskov republic as " Pskow suburb", which was destroyed in 1414 by the troops of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas .

In 1535 a wooden fortress was built on the orders of Prince Shuisky , which was built in honor of John the Baptist (Russian Ioann Predtetscha or Ivan Predtetscha ) Ivangorod-na-Sebesche , d. H. Johannesstadt am Sebeschsee was called. The fortress was an important point of defense on the border with Lithuania and withstood a siege by Polish-Lithuanian troops as early as 1536 . In the will of Ivan the Terrible , the place was mentioned as Sebesch .

From 1579 Sebesch belonged to Poland-Lithuania; Until the beginning of the 18th century, ownership of the city changed several times between Russia and Poland. During the Great Northern War from 1700 to 1721, Sebezh was made one of the main Russian bases on the orders of Peter the Great .

In 1772 the city finally belonged to Russia and received Russian city rights.

During the Second World War , Sebesch was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 9, 1941 and liberated on July 17, 1944 by troops of the 2nd Baltic Front of the Red Army as part of the Pskov-Ostrov operation . The German war cemetery at Sebesh is a reminder of this time.

Population development

Trinity Church in Sebesch

year	Residents
1897	4,326
1926	5,500
1939	6,049
1959	7,285
1970	10,270
1979	10,783
1989	9,497
2002	7.138
2010	6,375

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

In the historical part of the city, the castle hill with remains of the ramparts from 1535 and an originally Catholic church from 1625, which was restored and re-consecrated in 1990 as the Orthodox Trinity Church ( церковь Святой Троицы / zerkow Swjatoi Troizy), and a bell tower from the 19th century have been preserved .

The city has a local museum and a nature museum.

economy

In Sebezh there are companies in the building materials and timber industry as well as the light and food industries.

sons and daughters of the town

• Witold Rudziński (1913-2004), Polish composer

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 : Sebezh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Sebesch on mojgorod.ru (Russian)