Starodub
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Starodub
Стародуб
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List of cities in Russia |
Starodub ( Russian Стародуб ) is a city in the Brjansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 19,010 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the Desna - lowland about 170 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Bryansk riverside Babinez in the river system of the Dnepr (Babinez → → Wablja Southeast → → Desna Dnepr).
Starodub is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .
history
Starodub was first mentioned in 1080 as a town belonging to the Principality of Chernigov . The name is derived from the Russian stary dub for old oak (see city arms).
In the 13th century Starodub was burned down by the Mongols under Batu Khan .
Since the 14th century the city belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , later Poland-Lithuania . Between 1503 and 1618 Starodub belonged to the Grand Duchy of Moscow before it fell again to Poland.
In 1648 the city was taken by Bohdan Khmelnytsky's troops, in 1654 it became the location of the Staroduber Regiment of the Russian Army, and in 1666 it received self-government. In 1686 the city became part of Russia with the Eternal Peace .
In the 17th century in particular, Starodub was an important trading center between Moscow and central Russia as well as the (Polish) Ukraine and Western Europe.
In 1781 Starodub received the modern town charter as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds) of the Novgorod-Seversky governorship . From 1802 it belonged to the Chernigov Governorate , from 1919 to the Gomel Governorate .
During World War II , Starodub was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on August 18, 1941 and recaptured on September 22, 1943 by troops from the Brjansk Front of the Red Army .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 12,381 |
1926 | 10,900 |
1939 | 12,565 |
1959 | 11,694 |
1970 | 15,130 |
1979 | 17,196 |
1989 | 18,906 |
2002 | 18,643 |
2010 | 19,010 |
Note: census data (1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
In the city are Virgin Birth Cathedral ( Рождественский собор / Rozhdestvensky Sobor) in 1617, the Epiphaniaskirche ( Богоявленская церковь / Bogoyavlensky Zerkow) of 1789 and the Nikolai Church ( Николаевская церковь get / Nikolayevskaya Zerkow) from 1802, next to the building of the former Spiritual college and boys' grammar school .
The city has a local museum.
Economy and Infrastructure
As the center of an agricultural area, Starodub predominates in the food industry (canned fruit and vegetables, large dairy etc.). There are also smaller companies in the light and electrical engineering industries.
The city is the end point of a 30-kilometer-long railway line that branches off in Schetscha from the Unetscha - Voroschba (Ukraine) line (freight traffic only).
Personalities
- Alina Bondy-Glassowa (1865–1935), painter, born in Starodub
- Maria Einstein-Schaefer (née Maria Ramm; 1890–1975), wife of Carl Einstein and German-Russian translator, born in Starodub
- Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879–1913), Hebrew writer, born in Starodub
- Alexandra Ramm-Pfemfert (1883–1963), translator, publicist and gallery owner, born in Starodub
- Nadja Strasser (nee Noemi Ramm; 1871–1955), feminist, writer and translator, born in Starodub
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)
Web links
- Private website about Starodub (Russian)
- Starodub on mojgorod.ru (Russian)