Chudovo

city Tschudowo Чудово coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Novgorod Rajon Chudovo mayor Sergei Anishchenko Founded 16th Century City since 1937 surface 14  km² population 15,397 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1100 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 30  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81665 Post Code 174210, 174211 License Plate 53 OKATO 49 250 501 Website http://www.adminchudovo.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 7 ′  N , 31 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Novgorod Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Tschudowo ( Russian Чудово ) is a city in the Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,397 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Ilmen lowlands about 75 km north of the Oblast capital Veliky Novgorod on the Kerest , a left tributary of the Volkhov .

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

The city is located on the St. Petersburg – Moscow railway line , the former Nikolaibahn (route kilometers 118) , which was opened in 1851 . A line to Veliky Novgorod, which was originally opened as a narrow-gauge railway in 1871 (later converted to broad-gauge ), and a line built in 1919 as a shortcut to the connection from Moscow to the Murman Railway near Volkhov ( Volkhovstroi station ) branch off from here.

The M10 Moscow – Saint Petersburg – Finnish border also runs through Tschudowo .

history

See also : Tschuden

The place was since the 16th century as a settlement Tschudowski Yam on the road from the Neva estuary via Novgorod to Moscow.

Called Jam-Tschudowo at the beginning of the 19th century , the place experienced an upswing with the opening of the Nikolaibahn in 1851 and was henceforth called Tschudowo just like the station . Soon the station became a major hub.

In 1937 city rights were granted.

During World War II , Chudovo was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on August 20, 1941 and liberated on January 29, 1944 by troops of the Volkhov Front of the Red Army as part of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1,380
1939	12,259
1959	11,430
1970	12,520
1979	14,520
1989	17,982
2002	17,434
2010	15,397

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Buildings from the 19th century that survived the Second World War include the Church of Our Lady of Kazan , or Kazan Church for short ( Казанская церковь / Kasanskaja Zerkow), as well as the station building from 1877 and the former glass and ceramics works as monuments of industrial architecture (founded in 1876) and the match factory (founded in 1877).

There is a Nekrasov Museum in Chudovo - the poet spent the summer months 1871–1876 here. In the nearby village of Sjabrennitsy there is a museum for the writer Gleb Uspenski , who lived and worked there between 1881 and 1892. In the vicinity of Chudovo is also the classicist country residence Grusino of Count Alexei Araktschejew from the 1810s.

economy

In Chudovo there are companies in the woodworking industry ( plywood and veneer factory of the Finnish UPM-Kymmene , match factory Russkaja Spitschka ), mechanical engineering ( Energomasch ), the construction industry ( concrete railway sleepers ) and the food industry (chocolate factory of the British Dirol-Cadbury ).

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  The Kerest in Chudovo

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  Chudovo train station

sons and daughters of the town

• Gai Ilyich Severin (1926–2008), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Commons : Chudovo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Tschudowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)