Spirowo (Tver, Spirowski)
Urban-type settlement
Spirowo
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Spirowo ( Russian Спи́рово ) is an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast in Russia with 6,267 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is a good 80 km as the crow flies northwest of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center on the Malaya Tigma (Little Tigma), a left tributary of the eight kilometers to the west flowing Twerza .
Spirowo is the administrative center of the Rajons Spirowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Spirowo.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1545. It gained importance in the 1840s with the passing of the first long-distance railway line of the Russian Empire , the Nikolaibahn from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, when a larger station was built there. In 1886 a glass factory was built.
On July 12, 1929 Spirowo became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1932 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 5239 |
1959 | 6418 |
1970 | 6706 |
1979 | 6450 |
1989 | 6896 |
2002 | 6859 |
2010 | 6267 |
Note: census data
traffic
Spirowo with a train station and roundhouse in the 1860s
Spirowo station with Sapsan today (2013)
Spirowo has a station at kilometer 398 of the Saint Petersburg - Moscow railway line, which opened in 1851 and has been electrified on this section since 1962 .
The regional road 28K-1549 connects to the federal trunk road M10 , which runs a good ten kilometers to the south-west and also connects Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The railway line to the southwest is followed by a road to Lichoslavl (initially as 28N-1574).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)