Trubchevsk
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Trubchevsk
Трубчевск
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List of cities in Russia |
Trubchevsk ( Russian Трубчевск ) is a city in the Brjansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,014 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 100 km south of the Oblast capital Bryansk at the mouth of the Nerussa river on the right bank of the Desna , a left tributary of the Dnieper .
Trubchevsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
history
Trubchevsk emerged as one of the oldest Russian cities in 975. It was first mentioned in a document as a city in the Principality of Chernigov in 1164 (according to other sources in 1185 in connection with a campaign against the Polowezer ). In the chronicles the city appears under the names Trubetsch , Trubezk , Trubchesk or Trubesch , derived from an old Russian name for a (narrow) river, cf. truba for pipe .
The city was one of the most important in Severien , from the 12th century the center of an autonomous feudal principality until it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1240 .
From the second half of the 14th century Trubchevsk belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , ruled by a branch line of the Grand Duchy of Gediminas , the Princely House of Trubetskoi , named after the city , from 1503 to the Grand Duchy of Moscow , and from 1609 to 1644 to the Kingdom of Poland . In the 16th and 17th centuries it was the borderline between the Moscow state and Poland-Lithuania .
From the 17th to the 19th century, Trubchevsk was known for the cultivation of hemp and the production of hemp fabrics and hemp oil. In 1778 the modern town charter was granted as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds).
During the Second World War , Trubchevsk was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on October 9, 1941 and recaptured on September 18, 1943 by troops from the Brjansk Front of the Red Army .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 7,416 |
1926 | 11,100 |
1939 | 8,345 |
1959 | 9,605 |
1970 | 12,079 |
1979 | 14,410 |
1989 | 16.301 |
2002 | 16,342 |
2010 | 15,014 |
Note: census data (1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
Since the 19th century it has been located away from the main traffic flows, the city's economy developed only weakly, so that it has been able to retain its small-town character to this day. In Trubchevsk are Trinity Cathedral ( Троицкий собор / Troitsky sobor) from the 16th century, the Savior's Transfiguration Church ( Преображенская церковь / Preobrazhenskaya Zerkow) from the 17th century, the Dormition Protection Intercession Church ( Покровская церковь / Pokrowskaja zerkow) from the 18th century and the Church of Elias ( Ильинская церковь / Iljinskaja zerkow) and the Church of the Presentation of the Lord ( Сретенская церковь / Sretenskaja zerkow) from the 19th century . The oldest surviving residential building dates from the 17th century.
The city has a local museum and a planetarium.
Economy and Infrastructure
In Trubchevsk there is a radio electronics plant ( Nerussa ), companies in the food, textile and wood processing industries as well as the timber industry.
The city is the end point of a 36-kilometer railway line that branches off from the Moscow –Bryansk– Kiev route in Susemka (freight traffic only).
Personalities
- Ivan Petrov (1896–1958), Army General, born in Trubchevsk
- Anastassija Wjalzewa (1871–1913), famous operetta and romance singer, born in Trubchevsk
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- Trubchevsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)