Suvorov (city)

city Suvorov Суворов flag Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tula Rajon Suvorov Founded 15th century City since August 12, 1954 surface 25  km² population 18,973 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 759 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48763 Post Code 301430 License Plate 71 OKATO 70 240 501 Website www.suvorovtown.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 7 ′  N , 36 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 36 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tula Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Suworow ( Russian Суворов ) is a city in Tula Oblast ( Russia ) with 18,973 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the northern part of the Central Russian Plate about 90 km west of the oblast capital Tula on the Tscherepet , a right tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

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

history

A village with the name Suworowo derived from the proper name Suwor or Suworow was first mentioned in documents from the 15th to 16th centuries.

In 1934 the mining of clay minerals began in the area.

From 1949 a workers' settlement was built in connection with the construction of the Tscherepet thermal power station . As a cooling water reservoir for the power plant, the Tscherepet was dammed into a dam. The power plant began operating in 1953, and on August 12, 1954, the settlement was granted city rights in its current name. On February 28, 1958, Suvorov became the administrative center of the Rajons instead of the Khanino settlement .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	14,143
1970	16,919
1979	19,343
1989	21,885
2002	21,213
2010	18,973

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The city has a local history and art museum.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Tscherepet thermal power plant ( Tscherepetskaja GRES ) of OGK-3 with an installed capacity of 1285  megawatts is located in Suvorov .

The city is the center of an area with extensive mining of building materials and raw materials for the production of refractory materials such as clays, limestone and gravel. In Suworow and the nearby settlements of Tscherepet , Mitino and Chanino there are companies in the construction industry, equipment manufacturing, the textile industry as well as a foundry and a plant for agricultural and forestry equipment.

The small balneological health resort Krainka is eleven kilometers from Suworow .

The town lies on the 1941 opened railway Sukhinichi - Kozelsk -Tula (Station Sbrodowo ). Since 1905 the narrow-gauge railway ( gauge 750 mm) led Tula-Lichwin (today Chekalin ) through what was then Suworowo. However, this westernmost section of the route was shut down in the 1930s to 1940s as part of the construction of the broad-gauge line and the damming of the Tscherepet (the remaining route in sections by 1997).

In Suworow the regional roads R95 Odojew –Goladskoje (from there R92 on to Kaluga ) and R146 Chekalin – Chanino intersect.

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

• City administration website (Russian)
• Suvorov on mojgorod.ru (Russian)