Vesyegonsk

city Vesyegonsk Весьегонск coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Vesyegonsk First mention 1524 City since 1776 surface 10  km² population 7329 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 733 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 108  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48264 Post Code 171720, 171721 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 210 501 Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 40 ′  N , 37 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 58 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 37 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Vessjegonsk ( Russian Весьегонск ) is a small town in Tver Oblast ( Russia ) with 7,329 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Mologa lowlands about 250 kilometers northeast of the oblast capital Tver on the right bank of the Mologa , a left tributary of the Volga , with which it is dammed up to the Rybinsk reservoir .

Vesyegonsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Old city coat of arms (1780)

1524 a village called was first Wes Jegonskaja area Beschezki Verkh mentioned. Wes ( весь ) is an Old Russian word for a village or a small settlement; here a village on the Jegna river . The place was later called Vessjegonskoje , belonged to the Moscow Simeon Monastery (Simonowski monastyr) until 1764 and was an important regional trade and handicraft center, which was known for its fairs until the 19th century.

In 1776 town charter was granted. Towards the end of the 19th century the city lost its former importance with the decline of the Tikhvin canal system between the Volga and Saint Petersburg.

When the Rybinsk Reservoir was built in 1939, parts of the city were flooded. The part that was not flooded was given urban-type settlement status . In 1953 town charter was granted again.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	3457
1926	3991
1939	5874
1959	6784
1970	8428
1979	8848
1989	9574
2002	8662
2010	7329

Note: census data

Culture and sights

From the earlier variety of Wessjegonsker churches remain after the flooding of the city center by the Rybinsk Reservoir only the higher Church of Our Lady of Kazan (short Kazan Church ; Russian Казанская церковь / Kazanskaya Tserkov) of 1811, Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov) of 1868 and the Church of John the Baptist ( церковь Иоанна Предтечи / zerkow Ioanna Predtetschi) from 1903.

The city has a local museum.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Vesyegonsk there are wood-processing, textile and food industries and a machine factory.

The city is the end point of the railway line from Moscow via Savyolovo, which was built from 1899 to 1926 (route km 375).

Personalities

• Nikolai Meschkow (1851–1933), entrepreneur and patron
• Guri Sawin (1907–1975), engineer
• Pawel Korowkin (1913–1985), mathematician

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 : Vesyegonsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Vessyegonsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)