Teikowo

city Teikowo Tekovo flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ivanovo Urban district Teikowo First mention 17th century City since 1918 surface 19  km² population 34,976 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1841 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 125  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49343 Post Code 15504x License Plate 37, 137 OKATO 24 407 Website http://www.tejkovo.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 51 ′  N , 40 ° 33 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 40 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ivanovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Teikowo ( Russian Тейково , scientific transliteration Tejkovo ) is a Russian city ​​in Ivanovo Oblast , central Russia . It is the administrative seat of the Teikowo Rajons and has 34,976 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Geographical location

The city is located in wooded surroundings in the Oka Basin on the Vyazma River , 35 kilometers southwest of the regional capital Ivanovo . The closest city is Komsomolsk , just under 30 kilometers away.

history

Archaeological finds in the area of ​​the nearby Sachtysch Lake show that the area around Teikowo dates back to the 6th to 4th millennium BC. Was settled. In the area of ​​today's Prophet Elias Church , the remains of a pagan shrine of the Slavic god of thunder Perun from the 1st century BC were found. Discovered.

The current settlement is first mentioned at the end of the 17th century in connection with the peasant revolts in the time of the Smuta . Your name is possibly of Finno-Ugric origin and is therefore derived from teika (= "settlement made of wood"); on the other hand, the old Slavic name Agenteja is also accepted as a basic word.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Teikowo developed into an up-and-coming church village with market rights (Thursday and Sunday are official market days to this day ) and eventually even surpassed its greatest competitor, Suzdal , which was already in decline in the middle of the 18th century. In 1787 Ivan Petrowitsch Karetnikow founded the first cotton factory , which laid the foundations for a printing and textile industry known throughout the Russian Empire . It was not until 1918 that Teikowo received city ​​rights and at the same time was raised to the rank of district town . In 1929 it was spun off from the Vladimir Governorate and added to the newly founded Ivanovo Oblast .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	30,294
1959	28,298
1970	41,607
1979	34,677
1989	38.126
2002	36,686
2010	34,976

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

To date, the textile and clothing industry, the prevailing economic sectors ; there are also companies for mechanical engineering and food production ( large bakery ). Teikowo is located on the Alexandrow - Ivanovo railway line .

Culture and recreation

The city has two palaces of culture , four public libraries , two sports facilities , a swimming pool and numerous green areas.

Attractions

Teikowo is in the area of ​​the so-called Golden Ring . In addition to a number of historic merchant and manufacturer houses in the city center - including the former Karetnikov House (Усадьба Каретниковых, late 18th century) - the Prophet Elias Church (Ильинская церковь, late 17th century) and the neighboring Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Никольская церковь), which was built in the last third of the 18th century and restored and expanded in 1833, 1862 to 1864 and 1892 to 1895, is significant. Both churches were originally integrated into the ensemble of the upstream urban main square; However, this connection was severely disrupted in the 1950s by the construction of a block of flats (instead of the demolished Trinity Church) on the edge of the square.

Web links

• Unofficial city portal (Russian)
• Ivanovo Oblast Tourist Center (Russian)
• Teikowo on mojgorod.ru (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)