Sudislavl
Urban-type settlement
Sudislavl
Sudislavl
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Sudislavl ( Russian Судиславль ) is an urban-type settlement in Kostroma Oblast in Russia . It has 4913 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and is the administrative center of the district of the same name ( Rajons ).
history
The place arose as an outpost on the border of the empire of the Kievan Rus . Grand Duke Vladimir sent his son Sudislaw to have the border town fortified. The place is named after him today.
The Transfiguration Cathedral was built in 1758 . In 1854 the place had 1030 inhabitants, in 1895 there were 1720. From 1719 to 1925 Sudislavl had city rights.
In 1969 a historical museum was set up in the former house of the merchant Kokorew.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 1,362 |
1939 | 2,423 |
1959 | 3,307 |
1970 | 4,662 |
1979 | 5,495 |
1989 | 5,783 |
2002 | 5,373 |
2010 | 4,913 |
Note: census data
economy
The place has wood and food industries. There is also agriculture, including Romanov sheep and fur breeding.
literature
- Wassili Trawkin: Дорогие мои земляки (Dorogie moi zemliaki). Kostroma 2005
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
- Article Судиславль in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- Sudislavl Local History Museum (Russian)