Witschuga

city Witschuga Vichuga flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ivanovo Urban district Witschuga head Vyacheslav Stupine City since 1925 surface 31  km² population 37,583 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1212 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 135  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49354 Post Code 15533x License Plate 37, 137 OKATO 24 403 Website http://www.vichuga.info/ Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 13 '  N , 41 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 13 '0 "  N , 41 ° 54' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ivanovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Witschuga ( Russian Вичуга ) is a city in Ivanovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 37,583 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 75 km northwest of the Oblast capital Ivanovo on the upper reaches of the Pessucha in the river system of the Volga .

Witschuga is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast , forms an urban district and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The town lies on the 1871 opened railway Ivanovo- Kineshma . To the west, Vitschuga is bypassed by the regional road 24K-111, part of the connection from the federal trunk road M7 near Kowrow via Shuja and Rodniki to Kineshma.

history

The place goes back to a village located a few kilometers to the northwest and mentioned in a document in 1504 as Witschjuga in the will of the Moscow Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich , today's settlement Staraya Witschuga .

After the opening of the Witschuga train station in 1871, the settlements near textile factories were initially collectively referred to as Novaya Witschuga ("New Witschuga") and in 1925 received city rights as Witschuga. The name refers to a nearby river (the Witschuschanka, formerly also Witschuga, tributary of the Volga tributary Sunscha ) and is of Finno-Ugric origin.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	24,726
1939	46,931
1959	51,676
1970	52,597
1979	51,963
1989	49,745
2002	40,870
2010	37,583

Note: census data

Culture and sights

“Red” Resurrection Church

In the city there are a number of buildings from the beginning of the 20th century, such as the "White" Church of the Holy Resurrection ( Свято-Воскресенская церковь / Svjato-Voskressenskaja terkow) from 1904, the "Roteк" Church of the Resurrection ( вескосре / Woskressenskaja zerkow) from 1908 to 1911, as well as the hospital and other buildings belonging to the Konovalov textile factory.

In Staraya Witschuga is the palace ensemble of Count and Lieutenant General Sergei Tatishchev from the late 18th century.

economy

Witschuga is an important center of the textile industry with several factories. There are also mechanical engineering and wood processing industries.

sons and daughters of the town

• Vladimir Andronnikov (1885–1942), politician
• Nikolai Kondratjew (1892–1938), economist (born in the nearby village of Golujewskaja)
• Alexander Wassilewski (1895–1977), officer and chief of staff; Marshal of the Soviet Union

Web links

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

• City administration website (Russian)
• Witschuga on mojgorod.ru (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)