Vyazniki

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city
Vyazniki
Вязники
coat of arms
coat of arms
Federal district Central Russia
Oblast Vladimir
Rajon Vyazniki
mayor Valery Ilyin
First mention 1608
City since 1778
surface 37  km²
population 41,248 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 1115 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 130  m
Time zone UTC + 3
Telephone code (+7) 49233
Post Code 601440-601446
License Plate 33
OKATO 17 210 501
Website www.adm-vyaz.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates 56 ° 15 '  N , 42 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 15 '0 "  N , 42 ° 8' 0"  E
Vyazniki (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Vyazniki (Vladimir Oblast)
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Location in Vladimir Oblast
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

Vyazniki railway station

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
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

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)
  2. 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.
  3. Антошкин Иван Диомидович , warheroes.ru (Russian)
  4. Феофанов Борис Алексеевич , biograph.ru (Russian)

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