Towarkowo (Kaluga, Dzerzhinsky)

Urban-type settlement Towarkowo Товарково Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kaluga Rajon Dzerzhinsky head Jelena Orlowa First mention 1504 Urban-type settlement since 1964 population 14,496 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48434 Post Code 249855-249857 License Plate 40 OKATO 29 208 564 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 41 ′  N , 35 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 30 "  N , 35 ° 56 ′ 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaluga Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Towarkowo ( Russian Това́рково ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kaluga Oblast ( Russia ) with 14,496 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located almost 30 km northwest of the Kaluga Oblast Administrative Center, mainly on the left bank of the left Oka tributary Ugra , a little below the confluence of its left tributary Shanja.

Towarkowo belongs to the Dzerzhinsky Rajons and is located about 15 km south of its administrative center Kondrovo .

history

Not far from the small village of Towarkowo, located on the right bank of the Ugra and mentioned for the first time at the beginning of the 16th century, a settlement for employees was built on the other bank of the river in connection with the beginning of the mining of limestone deposits . The place name is possibly derived from that of the Moscow boyar Towarkov, who is mentioned in connection with standing at Ugra in 1480. In 1964 the place received urban-type settlement status. In the 1980s in particular, the prefabricated housing estate was also expanded for employees at the industrial sites along the railway line between Kaluga and Kondrowo.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	4,659
1979	6,413
1989	12,736
2002	14,454
2010	14,496

Note: census data

Attractions

In the village part of the village is the Church of the Nativity ( церковь Рождества Христова , Zerkow Roschdestwa Christowa ) , which was built between 1900 and 1906 . The Nikolai Chapel ( dieасовня Николая Чудотворца , Tschasovya Nikolaya Tschudotworza ) was built not far from the new settlement in 2006/2007 .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Towarkowo there are several companies in the building materials industry and plant engineering.

The nearest railway line runs a good three kilometers northeast of the village; there is the Shanja stop on the railway line Vyazma  - Kaluga - Ryashsk (route km 133), which was opened in 1874 and electrified in 1971 on a section to Kaluga . On the same route, a little further (about 6 km) from Towarkowo, there is the larger Polotnjany Zavod station . Road connection exists in a north-easterly direction to the regional road R93, which connects Kaluga with Medyn . This can also be used to reach the M3 Moscow  - Brjansk  - Ukrainian border road, which runs about 15 to the east.

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. ↑ History of the place on a private website about the place (Russian)
3. ↑ The Church of the Nativity of Christ Towarkowo at sobory.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Nikolai Chapel Towarkowo at sobory.ru (Russian)