Chernyanka

Urban-type settlement Chernyanka Chernianka flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Chernyanka First mention 1656 Urban-type settlement since 1958 population 15,217 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47232 Post Code 309560-309562 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 254 551 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 56 '  N , 37 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '15 "  N , 37 ° 48' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Chernyanka ( Russian Черня́нка ) is an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,217 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the southern part of the Central Russian Ridge , about 90 kilometers as the crow flies northeast of the Belgorod Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the Oskol , a tributary of the Seversky Donets .

Chernyanka is the administrative center of the Chernyanka Rajon of the same name .

history

The history of the place begins in the 17th century when farmers settled in the area of ​​what was then the southern border of the Russian Empire. The founding year is 1656 as the year the place was first mentioned in a document from the 1670s. As a result, the place was dominated by agriculture.

As part of an administrative reform, Chernyanka became the administrative center of a newly founded Rajon in July 1928. In 1958 it received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	5,800
1939	8,071
1959	8,784
1970	10,106
1979	11,795
1989	13,475
2002	15,067
2010	15,217

Note : Census data (1897 rounded)

Culture and sights

There has been a history and local history museum in Chernyanka since the 1980s .

About 10 kilometers south of the village near the village of Cholki is the Russian Orthodox Cholki Trinity Male Monastery ( Свято-Троицкий Холковский монастырь , Svyato-Troizki Cholkowski ), which was reopened in 1998 after it was closed in the Soviet period . It was probably built underground by monks of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra based on the latter's model as early as the 14th century , first mentioned in 1620, dissolved in 1764 under Catherine II and rebuilt in the course of the 19th century. According to tradition, the monastery is said to be near the point where the Novgorod-Seversk prince Igor Svyatoslawitsch (1151–1202) and the Pereslavler prince Vladimir Glebovich (1157–1187) met in 1185 for a campaign against the Polovzians .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Fyodor Kassatkin-Rostowski (1875–1940), writer
• Nikodim Kondakow (1844–1925), art historian (born in the nearby village of Chalan)
• Alexander Markow (1897–1968), astronomer

Economy and Infrastructure

In Chernyanka, as the center of an agricultural area, companies in the food industry predominate (sugar, dairy products, meat, edible oil).

The settlement is on the Moscow  - Jelez  - Waluiki railway (route km 655) and the R188 Stary Oskol  - Nowy Oskol regional road .

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. ↑ Raion and Chernyanka settlement on the Oblast Administration website (Russian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chernyanka on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
4. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)
5. ↑ Cholki Trinity Monastery at sobory.ru (Russian)

Web links

• Chernyanka Raion Administration website (Russian)