Surash

This article is about the city in Russia, for information on the village of the same name in Ukraine, see Surash (Ukraine) .

city Surash Сураж coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Bryansk Rajon Surash First mention 17th century City since 1781 surface 10  km² population 11,640 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1164 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48330 Post Code 243500 License Plate 32 OKATO 15 254 501 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 1 '  N , 32 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 1 '0 "  N , 32 ° 23' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bryansk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Surasch ( Russian Сураж ) is a city in the Brjansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 11,640 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 175 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Bryansk at the Iput , a left tributary of the Dnepr opens Sosch .

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

history

The place was first mentioned in the 17th century as a church village, later as a craft and trading settlement (Sloboda) Suraschitschi .

In 1781 the town charter was granted as the administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ) under the name Surasch an der Iput ( Surasch-na-Iputi ). From 1797 the addition to the name was omitted.

During the Second World War , Surasch was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on August 17, 1941 and recaptured on September 25, 1943 by troops of the Brjansk Front of the Red Army .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	4,006
1926	5,800
1939	9.003
1959	8,534
1970	10,296
1979	10,583
1989	12,559
2002	12,046
2010	11,640

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

Surasch has a local museum.

Eight kilometers from Surash, near the village of Lyalichi, are the remains of the palace complex of Count Pyotr Zavadovsky , a favorite of Tsarina Catherine the Great , built between the 1780s and 1790s based on a project by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi, who worked in Russia .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Surasch there are companies in the wood processing (cardboard), textile and food industries.

The city lies on the railway line Orsha - Krytschau - Unetscha, which was opened continuously in 1923, as well as the regional road Krytschau - Unetscha, where there is a connection to the trunk road M13 Brjansk - Belarusian border.

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 : Surasch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Surash on mojgorod.ru (Russian)