Udomlja

city Udomlya Удомля flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Udomlja mayor Dmitri Podushkov First mention 1485 City since 1981 surface 9  km² population 31,061 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 3451 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 165  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48255 Post Code 171840-171843 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 256 501 Website gorod.udomlya.ru Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 53 '  N , 35 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 53 '0 "  N , 35 ° 1' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Udomlja ( Russian Удомля ; until 1904 Troiza , Russian Троица) is a Russian city ​​in Tver Oblast , central Russia . It is the administrative center of Udomlja Rajons and has 31,061 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Geographical location

The city lies in the lowlands of Vyshny Volotschok on the banks of the Peswo and Udomlja lakes , which are connected by a canal. Udomlja is located around 290 km northwest of Moscow and 225 km northwest of the regional capital Tver .

history

Already in 1485 Udomelski Pogost was mentioned as Volost of the Archbishops of Veliky Novgorod . The exact meaning of the name is not clear, but is probably of Baltic origin. Today's settlement, on the other hand, was not built until 1869 at the Troiza railway station (in German " Trinity ") on the Rybinsk - Ventspils railway line . In 1904 the place got its current name. Since 1961 Udomlja has had the status of an urban-type settlement and since September 11, 1981 it has city ​​rights .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1,854
1959	2,971
1970	5,142
1979	12,079
1989	30,751
2002	31,961
2010	31,061

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Udomlja has been a center of wood processing since the beginning of the 20th century . Food production ( large-scale dairy, etc.) is also important for urban industry . The Kalinin nuclear power plant ( Kalininskaja , commissioning in 1984) is located northeast of the city on Lake Udomlja and has a total output of 4,000 megawatts .

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  Downtown of Udomlja, the “Center for Public Information” of the Kalinin NPP

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  Prince Vladimir Cathedral

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  Udomlja railway station

sons and daughters of the town

• Oleg Grigoryevich Makarow (1933–2003), Soviet engineer and cosmonaut

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 : Udomlja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City website of Udomlja (Russian)
• Udomlja on mojgorod.ru (Russian)