Serdobsk

city Serdobsk Сердобск flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Serdobsk Administrative manager Alexander Alyonkin Founded 1699 City since 1780 surface 27  km² population 35,393 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1311 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 190  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84167 Post Code 442890-442895 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 256 501 Website www.gorod-serdobsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 28 '  N , 44 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '0 "  N , 44 ° 13' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Serdobsk ( Russian Сердобск ) is a city in Penza Oblast ( Russia ) with 35,393 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The town lies on the western edge of the Volga Upland , about 110 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Penza at the Serdoba , a left tributary of the Don opens Khopyor River .

Serdobsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

The city lies on the railway line Balaschow - Rtishchewo - Penza, which was opened in 1894-1896 .

history

The place was established in 1699 as a fortified settlement Serdobinskaja Sloboda . Called Bolshaya Serdoba in the middle of the 18th century , the place received city rights on November 7, 1780 as the administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ) of the Saratov governorate (from 1782 governorate) under the name Serdob , later Serdobsk . The name of the river and town of Mordovia сярдо / sjardo for deer or elk derived.

In the 19th century the city was dominated by agriculture. In the 1920s and 1930s, the first larger companies in the food industry emerged, and mechanical engineering companies were relocated from the western part of the country to the city during World War II .

Population development

year	Residents
1795	1,376
1897	7,381
1926	11,220
1939	12,807
1959	26,119
1970	33,783
1979	39,936
1989	43,518
2002	37,738
2010	35,393

Note: from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

Archangel Michael Cathedral

Several buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries have been preserved in Serdobsk, including that of the Zemstvo administration (1875), the girls' high school (1910), the secondary school (1913), the fire station, and the Archangel Michael Cathedral ( собор Михаила Архангела / sobor Michaila Archangela) from the years 1895–1905.

There has been a local history museum since 1919.

20 kilometers west of the city, in the village of Nadeschdino , are the palace and park of Prince AB Kurakin from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

economy

The most important company in the city is the machine works, a supplier for the Moscow vehicle plant ZIL . There are also plants for light bulbs, clocks and furniture as well as various factories for the food industry.

sons and daughters of the town

• Pawel Jablotschkow (1847–1894), engineer and inventor

Web links

Commons : Serdobsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City Council website (Russian)
• Rajon Administration website (Russian)
• Serdobsk on the private website inpenza.ru (Russian)
• Serdobsk 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)