Vesyegonsk
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Vesyegonsk
Весьегонск
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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
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
- ↑ 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
- Unofficial website (Russian)
- Vessyegonsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)