Usvyaty

Urban-type settlement Usvyaty Usvyaty Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Pskov Rajon Usvyatsky First mention 1021 Urban-type settlement since 1985 population 2961 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81 150 Post Code 182570 License Plate 60 OKATO 58 258 551 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 45 '  N , 30 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 44 '30 "  N , 30 ° 45' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Pskov Oblast

Uswjaty ( Russian Усвя́ты ) is an urban-type settlement in the Pskov Oblast in Russia with 2961 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 275 km as the crow flies southeast of the Pskov Oblast Administrative Center about 7 km from the state border with Belarus . It is located on the Usmenskoje and Uswjatskoje lakes to the northwest and southeast . The latter is from the right Daugava creek Uswjatscha traversed.

Uswjaty is the administrative center of the Rajons Uswjatski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Uswjaty.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1021, when it was given under the name Vswjatsch ( Въсвячь ) together with the city of Vitebsk by Yaroslav the Wise to the Polotsk prince Brjatschislav Isjaslavich . In the following centuries the state affiliation of Uswjaty changed several times, especially during the time of the Russian-Polish wars : From 1320 Uswjaty belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , from the beginning of the 16th century to the Grand Duchy of Moscow , from 1548 back to Lithuania, from 1562 to Tsarism Russia , from 1580 to Poland-Lithuania , from 1654 to Russia and from 1667 as a result of the Treaty of Andrussowo again to Poland-Lithuania, until it finally came to the Russian Empire in 1772 through the partition of Poland .

The place then belonged to Ujesd Welisch , which was part of the Vitebsk governorate from 1802 after various administrative changes . In 1927 Uswjaty became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him.

During the Second World War , the settlement was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 13, 1941 . Shortly after the occupation, a ghetto was set up in Usjaty for over 500 Jewish residents of the town and its surroundings, most of whom were killed in the following months. During their winter offensive, the Red Army was able to recapture the site on January 29, 1942: This was one of the few cases on the territory of the Soviet Union that a ghetto with surviving Jewish residents - around 100 here - could be liberated. The front then ran a little west of the settlement for about a year.

Since October 15, 1985 the place has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	2679
1939	2493
1970	2310
1979	2745
1989	3638
2002	3148
2010	2961

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road 58K-202 runs through the settlement, which runs from Newel on the federal trunk road R21 of the Belarusian border to the border with Smolensk Oblast , 15 km southeast of Uswjaty , from there as 66K-11 in the direction of Velish - Demidow  - Smolensk .

The nearest train station is located 60 km northwest in Newel, where the Saint Petersburg  - Vitebsk and Bologoje  - Velikije Luki  - Polatsk railway lines cross, leading to Belarus .

Web links

• Official website of the district administration (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)