Sukhinichi

city Sukhinichi Сухиничи flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kaluga Rajon Sukhinichi head Anton Yegorov Founded 18th century City since 1840 surface 12  km² population 16,273 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1356 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (48451) Post Code 249270 License Plate 40 OKATO 29 236 501 Website www.info-suhinichi.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 6 ′  N , 35 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 35 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaluga Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sukhinichi ( Russian Сухиничи ) is a town in the Kaluga oblast ( Russia ) with 16 273 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

The city is located about 100 km southwest of the Oblast capital Kaluga am Bryn , a left tributary of the Shizdra in the river system of the Volga .

Sukhinichi is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Sukhinichi-Glawnye railway station

Sukhinichi was founded as a village in the first half of the 18th century. The name is derived from a nickname or surname, Sukhin or Sukhinin, which is common in the area . At the beginning of the 19th century Sukhinichi together with several surrounding villages formed a larger community (Obschtschina) of farmers directly subordinate to the tsarist court and was an important storage and trading center, especially for agricultural products.

In 1840 city rights were granted. At the end of the 19th century Sukhinichi developed into an important railway junction.

During the Second World War Sukhinichi was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 7, 1941 and recaptured on January 29, 1942 by the Western Front of the Red Army as part of the Rzhev-Vyazma operation . As a major railway junction , the city was fiercely contested, especially in early 1942.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	5,447
1926	6,600
1939	10,820
1959	12,717
1970	16,536
1979	16,434
1989	17,762
2002	16,387
2010	16,273

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Economy and Infrastructure

In Sukhinichi there are manufacturers of equipment, the textile and food industry, the construction industry and a plastics factory.

The city is an important railway junction on the route Moscow - Bryansk - Kiev, opened on this section in 1899 (station name Sukhinichii-Glawnyje (Central Station), route km 261). This line is crossed here by the Smolensk - Chaplygin or Tula line, which was also opened in 1899 . In addition, another route branches off here via Kirow to Roslavl (opened in 1935). Here there is a freight yard with shunting tracks and a depot with railway workshops.

The M3 Moscow – Brjansk – Ukrainian border road (from there to Kiev) runs northwest past the city.

sons and daughters of the town

• Lew Okun (1929-2015), theoretical physicist

Web links

Commons : Sukhinichi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Council website (Russian)

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)