Spassk (Pensa)

city Spassk Спасск flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Joke mayor Grigory Sergushkin Founded 17th century City since 1779 surface 6  km² population 7442 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1240 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 170  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84151 Post Code 442600 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 206 501 Website bednodem.obl.penza.net Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 56 '  N , 43 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '0 "  N , 43 ° 11' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Spassk ( Russian Спасск ) is a small town in Penza Oblast ( Russia ) with 7,442 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the western edge of the Volga plate about 160 km northwest of the Oblast capital Penza on the Studenez river in the river system of the Volga .

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

The M5 Moscow –Samara– Chelyabinsk road runs through Spassk .

history

The place originated in the 17th century as Bogdanowo and was later renamed Spasskoje (from Russian spas for savior ) according to its church . In 1779 the place received the city charter under its current name (also Spassk-na-Studenze , i.e. Spassk am Studenez to distinguish it from other places of the same name).

In 1925 the city was renamed Bednodemjanowsk , in honor of the proletarian poet Demjan Bedny (1883–1945, actually Jefim Alexejewitsch Pridvorov). In 2005 the city got its old name again.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	6439
1939	6707
1959	6192
1970	7512
1979	8043
1989	8299
2002	7628
2010	7442

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The Church of the Assumption ( Церковь Вознесения / zerkow Vosnessenija) from 1859 has been preserved in Spassk , along with other buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as the aristocratic club, the elementary school, the district police administration and an inn. In the nearby village of Abaschewo there is a museum of the traditionally made toys.

economy

In Spassk there are companies in the food industry as well as for artistic ceramics.

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  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rayon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Spassk on the private website inpenza.ru (Russian)
• Spassk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)