Soligalitsch

city Soligalich Солигалич coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kostroma Rajon Soligalitsch mayor Vasily Machin First mention 1335 City since 1778 surface 8  km² population 6438 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 805 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49436 Post Code 157170 License Plate 44 OKATO 34 240 501 Website www.soligalich.com Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 5 '  N , 42 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 5 '0 "  N , 42 ° 17' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kostroma Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Soligalitsch ( Russian Солигалич ) is a small town in the Kostroma Oblast ( Russia ) with 6,438 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the foothills of the Galitscher Heights about 220 kilometers northeast of the oblast capital Kostroma on the Kostroma river of the same name , a left tributary of the Volga .

Soligalitsch is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

Since the end of the 1950s, Soligalitsch has been connected to the so-called Monsa Railway ( Монзенская железная дорога / Monsenskaja schelesnaja doroga; named after the Monsa , a tributary of the Kostroma), via a branch line. This line was built in the 1930s for the forestry development of the border area of ​​the Oblasts Vologda and Kostroma. This begins in Wochtoga on the Vologda - Bui route and reached the Kema River about 50 kilometers west of Nikolsk in the late 1980s . With a length of 238 kilometers as the main branch, it is one of the most important non-public industrial railways in Russia.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1335 as Sol Galitskaja in a document by Ivan Kalita . The name is derived from sol , the Russian word for salt , and the name of the older town of Galitsch about 80 kilometers south, meaning Galitsch salt and refers to the local rock salt deposits from which brine springs emerge here .

Initially belonging to the independent Principality of Galitsch, the place finally came to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in 1450 . Until the 17th century it remained an important center of the salt works, which was now owned by the Sergios-Dreifaltigkeits- and five other monasteries.

Fortifications were built in the 15th century that withstood a siege by the Tatars in 1532 .

During the time of turmoil , Soligalitsch was the seat of a voivode in 1609 , destroyed by Polish troops and in 1649 by a city fire.

In 1778 the place received city rights as the administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ) of the Kostroma governorate . In 1808 another fire destroyed almost the entire city. In 1823 the salt works was closed and the town developed into a center of wood tar production and blacksmithing over the course of the century .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	3419
1926	3479
1939	5383
1959	5773
1970	6701
1979	7134
1989	7456
2002	6996
2010	6438

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In the historical center are the Exaltation Church ( Крестовоздвиженская церковь / Krestowosdwischenskaja Zerkow) from 1817, the Transfiguration Church ( Преображенская церковь / Preobrazhenskaya Zerkow) of 1821, the St. Nicholas Church at Nawolok ( церковь Николы на Наволоке / Zerkow Nikoly na Nawoloke) of 1688 as well as the trading series from the middle of the 19th century.

On the banks of Kostroma the lie Resurrection Monastery ( Воскресенский монастырь / Voskresensky monastyr) with the Church of the Resurrection ( Воскресенская церковь / Woskressenskaja Zerkow) 1660-1669 and the Epiphaniaskirche ( Богоявленская церковь / Bogoyavlensky Tserkov) is from 1681. Near it, which was founded already in 1335 The Nativity of Christ Monastery ( Рождественский монастырь / Roschdestwenski monastyr) with the Church of the Nativity of Christ ( собор Рождества Христова / zerkow Roshdestwa Christowa) from 1668 to 1805.

The city has a local museum, which is named after Gennadi Nevelskoi .

Personalities

• Gennadi Newelskoi (1813–1876), admiral and explorer, born on the Drakino country estate near Soligalitsch

economy

Soligalitsch is the center of the wood and building materials industry ( limestone and flour). In addition, smaller companies in the textile and food industry.

Since 1841, the city has also been a balneological health resort based on the local brine springs and healing mud.

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 : Soligalitsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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