Spassk-Ryazansky

city Spassk-Ryazansky Спасск-Рязанский flag Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ryazan Rajon Joke First mention 1629 City since 1778 surface 7  km² population 7745 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1106 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49135 Post Code 391050 License Plate 62 OKATO 61 246 501 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 24 '  N , 40 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 24 '0 "  N , 40 ° 23' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ryazan Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Spassk-Ryazansky ( Russian Спасск-Рязанский ) is a small town in Ryazan Oblast ( Russia ) with 7745 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the southern part of the Meshchora lowlands about 50 km southeast of the Oblast capital Ryazan on the left arm of the Spassky Saton of the Oka , a right tributary of the Volga .

Spassk-Ryazansky is the administrative center of Spassk Rajon .

history

An artisan and trading village (Sloboda), which has existed since at least the 15th century, on the site of today's town was first mentioned in 1629 under the name Waskina Poljana, also known as the village of Spassk . It belonged to the Savior-Saretschensky Monastery ( Спас-Зареченский монастырь / Spas-Saretschenski monastyr) , which was founded in the 15th century and closed in 1764 . The word spas for savior was carried over to the place; Zarechensky , about behind the river , refers to the location opposite the original city ​​of Ryazan, which was destroyed by the Mongols under Batu Khan in 1237 (later and until today called the village of Staraya Ryazan , Old Ryazan ).

In 1778 the town charter was granted as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds) Spassk . In 1929, the name addition Ryazansky was added to distinguish it from other cities of the same name ( Spassk in Penza Oblast and Spassk-Dalni in Primorye ) .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	4759
1926	6324
1939	7341
1959	7171
1970	8434
1979	9240
1989	9835
2002	8858
2010	7745

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Cemetery church of the Ascension in Spassk

A number of churches and houses from the 19th and early 20th centuries have been preserved in Spassk-Ryazansky. In the village of Staraya Ryazan, three kilometers away on the opposite bank of the Oka, are the remains of the original town of Ryazan from the 12th to 13th centuries.

The city has a history and architecture museum .

In the village of Izhevskoye in Spassk district there is a Tsiolkovsky museum for the space pioneer born there in 1857 .

In the north of the Rajons lies on the Oka and its left tributary Pra the Oka- Sapowednik with administration in the village of Brykin Bor . The nature reserve was established in 1935 and is now 55,744 hectares. It has had the status of a biosphere reserve since 1985 . Part of the territory is considered to be particularly worthy of protection wetlands according to the Ramsar Convention .

Economy and Infrastructure

The city's largest company is a leather goods factory. There are also companies in the food and light industry.

The railway line Moscow -Rjasan- Ruzayevka - Sysran as well as the highway M5 Moscow Rjasan- Samara - Chelyabinsk run 15 to 20 kilometers to the west and south of the city on the opposite bank of the Oka, accessible by a bridge and a car ferry.

Personalities

• Georgi Wagner (1908–1995), art scholar
• Nikolai Smelyakov (1911–1995), Soviet politician
• Oleg Romanzew (* 1954), football player and coach

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 : Spassk-Ryazansky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Spassk-Ryazansky on mojgorod.ru (Russian)