Sobinka

city Sobinka Собинка flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Vladimir Rajon Sobinka mayor Vladimir Sotov Founded 1850s City since 1939 surface 18  km² population 19,482 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1082 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 105  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49242 Post Code 601200-601243 License Plate 33 OKATO 17 250 501 Website www.sobinka.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 59 '  N , 40 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 59 '0 "  N , 40 ° 1' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Vladimir Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sobinka ( Russian Со́бинка ) is a city in the Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ) with 19,482 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the northwestern part of the Meshchora Lowlands, about 40 km southwest of the Oblast capital Vladimir on the right bank of the Klyazma , a left tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

Sobinka is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name . The neighboring city of Lakinsk is administratively subordinate to Sobinka.

history

The place was first mentioned as the desert area Sobinowa , d. H. belonging to Sobina , which appears as a male given name in sources from the area since the 15th century.

In the 1850s, the Lossew brothers founded a textile factory here, around which a workers' settlement developed. In the 1920s the place was temporarily called Komawangard , a shortened form of the current name of the textile factory Kommunistitscheski Awangard (Russian for Communist Avantgarde ).

In 1939 city charter was granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	18,162
1959	20,511
1970	22,943
1979	23,646
1989	23,720
2002	21,054
2010	19,482

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The city has a local museum.

In the village of Orechowo in the Sobinka district there is a Zhukovsky Memorial Museum for the "father of Russian aviation" who was born there .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Sobinka there are companies in the textile industry, equipment manufacturing (suppliers for the vehicle industry, medical technology) and the timber industry.

The Undol station in Lakinsk is four kilometers away from Sobinka and is located on the Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod railway line, which opened in 1862 (route km 161), on which a large part of the Trans-Siberian Railway's western section now runs from Moscow. The M7 Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan – Ufa trunk road (part of European route 22 ) also runs through neighboring Lakinsk.

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

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