Chudovo, Chudovsky District, Novgorod Oblast

Tschudowo (Russian Чудово ) is a town in the Novgorod Oblast (Russia) with 15,397 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the Ilmenniederung about 75 km north of the Oblasthauptstadt Veliky Novgorod at the Kerest, a left tributary of the Volkhov.

Tschudowo is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The town lies on the railway line opened in 1851 Saint Petersburg- Moscow, the former railway Nikolai ( kilometer 118). From this one a branch originally opened in 1871 as a narrow gauge railway line to Veliky Novgorod (later converted to broad gauge ) and a 1919 as an abbreviation of the compound from Moscow to Murmansk at Volkhov ( Wolchowstroi station ) built from distance.

By Tschudowo the M10 highway Moscow - Saint Petersburg performs - Finnish border.

History

The place was as a settlement Tschudowski Jam on the road from the Newamündung over Novgorod to Moscow since the 16th century.

At the beginning of the 19th century Jam Tschudowo called, the place took an upswing with the opening of the railway in 1851 Nikolai called henceforth as the station only Tschudowo. Soon the station into a major hub was.

In 1937, the city charter was granted.

During World War II Tschudowo was occupied on 20 August 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 29 January 1944 by troops of the Volkhov Front Red Army as part of the Leningrad - Novgorod operation.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

For buildings from the 19th century, which survived the Second World War, include the Church of Our Lady of Kazan, short Kazan Church ( Казанская церковь / Kazanskaya Tserkov ) and the station building from 1877, as well as monuments of industrial architecture, this former glass and Karamikwerk ( founded in 1876 ) and the match factory (founded in 1877).

In Tschudowo is a Nekrasov Museum - the poet spent the summer months from 1871 to 1876. In the nearby village Sjabrennizy there is a museum for the writer Gleb Uspensky, who lived there 1881-1892 and worked. Nearby Tschudowos is also the neo-classical country seat of Count Alexei Arakcheev Grusino from the 1810s.

Economy

In Tschudowo companies in the wood processing industry (plywood and veneer factory of Finnish UPM- Kymmene, match factory Russkaya Spitschka ), mechanical engineering ( Energomash ), construction (concrete railway sleepers ) and the food industry are located ( chocolate factory of the British Dirol - Cadbury ).

Station Tschudowo

Sons and daughters of the town

• Gai Sewerin Ilyich (1926-2008), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences