Vyazniki
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Vyazniki
Вязники
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List of cities in Russia |
Vyazniki ( Russian Вязники ) is a city in Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ) with 41,248 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 120 km east of the Oblast capital Vladimir on the right bank of the Klyazma , a left tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .
Vjasniki is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
The city is located on the railway line Moscow –Nizhny Novgorod (km 315), opened in 1862 , on which a large part of the trains of the Trans-Siberian Railway run on its western part from Moscow. The M7 Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan - Ufa highway (part of European route 22 ) also runs through Vyazniki .
history
The village of Vyazniki was first mentioned in documents in 1608; since 1611 it was considered a trading settlement (Sloboda). From 1622 Vyazniki was a place of pilgrimage to a "miraculous" icon of Our Lady of Kazan .
Since the 17th century, Wjasniki was also the center of flax cultivation and the production of flax and hemp products , e.g. B. ropes, as well as icon painting, wood carving and horticulture (sour cherries and cucumbers, which are common in Russia, came from Vyazniki).
In 1778 town charter was granted. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the city has been one of the most important locations for the linen industry in Russia.
In Vyasniki there was a POW camp 165 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .
In 2004 the Novovyazniki settlement was incorporated.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 8,862 |
1926 | 17,000 |
1939 | 33.502 |
1959 | 39,392 |
1970 | 42,714 |
1979 | 45,916 |
1989 | 45,438 |
2002 | 40,398 |
2010 | 41,248 |
Note: census data (1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
A number of buildings from the end of the 18th / beginning of the 19th century have been preserved in Vyazniki, including many wooden houses with rich carvings and the former country house of the manufacturer SI Senkow. The Annunciation Cathedral ( Благовещенский собор / Blagoweschenski sobor) dates from 1682 to 1689.
The city has a local museum.
Mstjora urban-type settlement , known for its folk art, is located 30 kilometers northwest of the city in the Rajon .
economy
In Vyazniki there are companies in the textile industry and textile machine construction, a vehicle electrics plant, a furniture factory and companies in the food industry.
sons and daughters of the town
- Ivan Antoschkin (1900–1944), Soviet-Russian major general
- Evgeny Mishchenko (1922–2010), Russian mathematician and university professor
- Boris Feofanow (1925-2017), Soviet-Russian lieutenant general
- Valery Kubasov (1935-2014), Soviet cosmonaut
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)
- ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
- ↑ Антошкин Иван Диомидович , warheroes.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Феофанов Борис Алексеевич , biograph.ru (Russian)
Web links
- Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
- Vyazniki on mojgorod.ru (Russian)