Tschuchloma

city Tschuchloma ухлома coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kostroma Rajon Tschuchloma First mention 1381 City since 1778 surface 7  km² population 5411 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 773 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49441 Post Code 157130 License Plate 44 OKATO 34 246 501 Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 45 '  N , 42 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 45 '0 "  N , 42 ° 41' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kostroma Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Tschuchloma ( Russian Чухлома ) is a small town in the Kostroma Oblast ( Russia ) with 5411 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 170 kilometers northeast of the oblast capital Kostroma on the southeast bank of Lake Tschuchloma , from which the Weksa flows in the river system of the Volga .

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

The city is 50 kilometers north of Galitsch , where the nearest train station is on the Trans-Siberian Railway . The Galitsch – Soligalitsch road leads through Tschuchloma .

history

Tschuchloma was first mentioned in 1381 as a place in the Principality of Galitsch, which was attached to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the middle of the 15th century . The name of the place and the lake is probably derived from an old Russian name for the Finno-Ugric peoples in the north of the country.

In the time of turmoil at the beginning of the 17th century, the place was badly affected.

In 1778 he received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	2202
1926	2259
1939	3597
1959	4346
1970	4587
1979	4934
1989	5597
2002	5464
2010	5411

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In the city are the Assumption Church ( Успенская церковь / Uspenskaja zerkow) from 1730 to 1740, the Christ the Transfiguration Cathedral ( Преображенский собор / Preobrazhensky sobor) from 1746 (and many of the administrative buildings were rebuilt) from 1837 (and many of the administrative buildings) Carved wooden houses from the 19th century have been preserved, and in the city center remains of the earth wall of the fortress from the 14th century.

The city has had a local museum named after the writer Alexei Pissemski since 1919 .

Eleven kilometers from Chukhloma located on the northern shore of Tschuchlomasees in the village Noschkino , founded in the 17th century Abraham-Gorodetsky Monastery ( Авраамиев Городецкий монастырь / Awraamijew Gorodetsky monastyr) with Mary protection Intercession Church ( Покровская церковь / Pokrovskaya Tserkov ) from 1607, the Elias Cathedral ( Ильинский собор / Iljinski sobor) from 1857 to 1867, the wall and towers from 1764 to 1768 and the monk's cell wing from the 1840s.

The former country residence of the Mikhail Lermontov family is not far away .

Personalities

• Konstantin Arsenjew (1789–1865), historian, geographer and academician , born in Murochanowo , then Ujesd Tschuchloma
• Konstantin Michailowitsch Bykow (1886–1959), physiologist
• Pawel Katenin (1792–1853), poet, playwright and literary critic, born and died in Schajowo , buried in Borejewo , reburied in 1955 in Tschuchloma
• Nikon (1861–1908; actually Nikolai Sofijski ), Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and Exarch of the Georgian Church (1906–1908), born in Osarnikowo , then Ujesd Tschuchloma
• Alexei Pissemski (1821–1881), writer, born in Ramenje in today's Tschuchloma Rajon

economy

In Tschuchloma there are companies in the wood industry and wood processing (sawmills, prefabricated wooden houses, windows and doors) as well as the food industry.

Web links

Commons : Tschuchloma  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Private website about the city (Russian)
• Tschuchloma on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)