Temnikov

city temnikov Темников coat of arms Federal district Volga republic Mordovia Rajon Temnikov Founded 1536 City since 1779 population 7243 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (83445) Post Code 431220 License Plate 13, 113 OKATO 89 249 501 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 38 '  N , 43 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 38 '0 "  N , 43 ° 13' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Situation in Mordovia

List of cities in Russia

Temnikov ( Russian Темников , Moksha Темникав , Temnikaw ) is a small town in the Republic of Mordovia ( Russia ) with 7243 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Sanaksar monastery

The city is located about 160 km northwest of the republic capital Saransk on the Mokscha , a right tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

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

history

Temnikow was founded as a fortified city eight kilometers downstream in the 14th century. In 1536 the town was moved to its current location, the old place has been preserved as the village of Stary Gorod (Old Town). This makes Temnikow the oldest city in Mordovia.

In 1779 the place received today's town charter as the administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ) of the Tambov governorate .

In the city there was the POW camp 58 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . It is said to have been the first prisoner of war camp in the Soviet Union .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	5700
1926	1900
1939	5464
1959	6159
1979	7354
1989	9172
2002	8375
2010	7243

Note: census data (rounded up to 1926)

Culture and sights

Three kilometers northwest of temnikov located on the left Moksha river shores, in 1659, founded Sanaksar-Virgin Birth Monastery ( Рождество-Богородичный Санаксарский монастырь / Roschdestwo-Bogoroditschny Sanaksarski monastyr and shortly also Sanaksar Monastery ), in the 18th century one of the most important religious centers Of Russia.

The city has a local museum .

economy

In Temnikow there is a light bulb factory, companies in the wood industry and wood processing (paper / wallpaper) and the food industry.

Personalities

• Fyodor Ushakov (1745–1817), admiral , saint of the Russian Orthodox Church ; spent the last years of his life on his property not far from Temnikow and is buried in the Sanaksar monastery there
• Theodor von Sanaksar (Iwan Ignatjewitsch Uschakow, 1718–1791), saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, Admiral Uschakow's uncle; also buried in the Sanaksar monastery

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)
2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
3. ↑ See Zeitschrift für Militärgeschichte , Berlin (-Ost) 1963, p. 46.

Web links

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

• Temnikov's unofficial website (Russian)
• Temnikow on mojgorod.ru (Russian)