Cherdyn

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city
Cherdyn
Чердынь
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Federal district Volga
region Perm
Rajon Cherdyn
mayor Anatoly Djachkov
Founded 1451
City since 1535
surface 28  km²
population 4920 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 176 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 160  m
Time zone UTC + 5
Telephone code (+7) 34240
Post Code 618600, 618601
License Plate 59, 81, 159
OKATO 57 256 501
Geographical location
Coordinates 60 ° 24 '  N , 56 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 60 ° 24 '0 "  N , 56 ° 29' 0"  E
Cherdyn (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Cherdyn (Perm region)
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Location in the Perm region
List of cities in Russia

Cherdyn ( Russian Чердынь ) is a small town in the Perm region ( Russia ) with 4920 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the western flank of the Northern Urals about 300 km north of the regional capital Perm on the right bank of the Kolwa, not far from its confluence with the Wischera , a left tributary of the Kama .

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

history

Soviet city coat of arms (1971)

Cherdyn was founded in 1451 as a Komi-Permyak settlement and was the capital of the northern Ural foothills ( Velikaya Perm , " Greater Perm ") until the 16th century . The place name is derived from the Komi words for the mouth of a tributary .

Belonging to the Grand Duchy of Moscow since 1472 , the place received official city rights in 1535. This is where the Tscherdyner Strasse ( Чердынская дорога ) had its starting point, which was the most important trade route across the Urals to Western Siberia until the opening of the Babinov Strasse , which ran south, in 1598 . Thereafter, the city lost its importance to the up-and-coming Solikamsk , but remained an important regional transshipment point for grain, fish and fur products until the 19th century.

Population development

year Residents
1897 3658
1926 3900
1939 8130
1959 7524
1970 6972
1979 6617
1989 6535
2002 5756
2010 4920

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

Apostle John Church

Since Tscherdyn was practically untouched by the industrialization of the 20th century, the architectural ensemble of the city from the 18th and 19th centuries is relatively well preserved. The most important buildings are the Apostle John 's Church ( церковь Иоанна Богослова / Tserkov Ioanna Bogoslowa, 1705-1718), the Christ Resurrection Cathedral ( Воскресенский собор / Voskresensky Sobor, from 1750 to 1754), the Savior's Transfiguration Church ( церковь Преображения / zerkow Preobrashenija, 1756), the buildings of the former arsenal (first half of the 18th century), the trading yard (Gostiny dvor, 1857) and the city ​​duma .

There is a local museum in Cherdyn.

Personalities

economy

Tscherdyn is the center of the timber industry.

See also

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

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