Slynka

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the village of the same name in Ukraine see Slynka (Ukraine) .

city Slynka Злынка Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Rajon Slynka Founded 1702 City since 1925 surface 8  km² population 5507 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 688 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48358 Post Code 243600 License Plate 32 OKATO 15 223 501 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 26 '  N , 31 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '0 "  N , 31 ° 44' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Slynka ( Russian Злынка ) is a small town in the Brjansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 5507 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Dnepr lowlands about 225 km southwest of the Oblast capital Bryansk on the Slynka river of the same name , a left tributary of the Iput in the river system of the Dnieper .

Slynka, the smallest town in the Oblast, has been the administrative center of a raion of the same name since 1988 .

history

Slynka was established in 1702 as a settlement of the Old Orthodox around a hermitage , which has existed since 1682 and named after the river.

In 1770 Tsarina Catherine the Great gave the surrounding lands to Count Pyotr Rumyantsev . From 1862 the place developed into an important center for matchmaking with several factories.

In 1925 the town charter was granted.

During the Second World War , Slynka was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in August 1941 and recaptured on September 27, 1943 by troops of the Brjansk Front of the Red Army while advancing towards Chernihiv and Pripyat .

Large parts of the Rajon were radioactively contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and are now an uninhabitable restricted area.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	4209
1926	6400
1939	8754
1959	6003
1970	6106
1979	5904
1989	5586
2002	5372
2010	5507

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

Slynka was one of the centers of ancient orthodoxy in western central Russia. A number of residential and public buildings, some with rich wood carvings, from the 18th and 19th centuries and some churches have been preserved in the city.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Slynka there are companies in the wood and furniture industry (since 1934 in place of the previous match factory) and the food industry, the development of which, however, is affected by the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.

The station Slynka is seven kilometers north of the city on the 1887 continuously opened railway line Bryansk - Homel - Brest ( Belarus ), a line of the then Polessje Railways (route km 228).

The trunk road M13 Brjansk – Belarusian border and also further via Homel towards Brest leads north past Slynka.

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

• Photos of the city on a private website (Russian)
• Slynka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)