Tikhvin

city Tikhvin Tichvin flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Leningrad Rajon Tikhvin mayor Oleg Nikitin First mention 1383 City since 1773 surface 24  km² population 58,459 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2436 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 50  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81367 Post Code 18755x License Plate 47 OKATO 41 460 Website tikhvin.org Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 38 ′  N , 33 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Leningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Tikhvin ( Russian Тихвин , Finnish Tihvinä ) is a city with 58,459 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in Russia . It is located on the A114 trunk road , around 216 km east of Saint Petersburg , and belongs to the Leningrad Oblast . The Sjas tributary Tichwinka flows past Tikhvin. This is part of the Tikhvin canal system . East of Tichwin extending Tikhvin ridge , a portion of the Valdai Hills .

history

Tikhvin was first mentioned in 1383 and has had city rights since 1773.

Tikhvin is internationally known because of the composer Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow , who was born there in 1844, and the Tikhvin icon . According to legend, the icon was painted by Luke while Mary was still alive .

During the Second World War , the city was conquered by troops of the German Army Group North in November 1941 in the Battle of Tikhvin , but had to be evacuated after a month because the Soviet counterattacks were too strong. Tikhvin marked the furthest advance of Army Group North in the course of the entire war. After the fall of Tikhvin, the then Commander-in-Chief of Army Group North, Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, asked for his replacement. He had got into an argument with the new Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Adolf Hitler , about strategy: Hitler wanted to keep the front without regard to losses, Leeb wanted to lead the defense in a flexible manner and with the greatest possible sparing of his own troops. The Tübingen doctor and painter Georg Alfred Stockburger , who was deployed there as a battalion doctor, artistically dealt with the war crimes and the suffering of the Russian civilian population committed in the context of the conquest and loss of the city of Tikhvin.

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  Uspensky Cathedral of Tikhvin

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  " Karl-Marx- Strasse"

Population development

year	Residents
1897	6,589
1926	10,269
1939	16.199
1959	18,412
1970	33,971
1979	58,616
1989	71,352
2002	63,338
2010	58,459

Note: census data

sons and daughters of the town

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), composer
• Natalja Sorokina (* 1982), biathlete

See also

• List of cities in Leningrad Oblast
• Tikhvin wagon factory

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 : Tikhwin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official City Administration Website (Russian)
• City portal "Tikhvin Online" (Russian)
• Tikhvin on mojgorod.ru (Russian)