Soligalich
Soligalitsch (Russian Солигалич ) is a small town in Kostroma Oblast ( Russia) ( October 14, 2010 status ) with 6438 inhabitants.
Geography
The city is located in the foothills of Galitscher heights about 220 kilometers northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Kostroma Kostroma on the eponymous river, a left tributary of the Volga.
Soligalitsch is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.
Since the late 1950s Soligalitsch is a backroad with about 20 kilometers to the north extending so-called Monsa Railroad ( Монзенская железная дорога / Monsenskaja schelesnaja doroga; named after the Monsa, a tributary of the Kostroma ). This track was built in the 1930s for forestry development of the border region of Vologda Oblast and Kostroma, begins in Wochtoga along the route Vologda Bui and reached the end of the 1980s, the river Kema about 50 kilometers west Nikolsk. It is 238 kilometers in length, the main branch one of the largest non-public industrial railways of Russia.
History
The place was first mentioned in 1335 as a sol Galizkaja in a deed Ivan Kalitas. The name is derived from sol, the Russian word for salt, and the name of the older town Galich about 80 kilometers south, so does Galitscher salt and refers to the local rock salt deposits from which salty sources come to light here.
Initially belonging to the independent Principality of Galich, the place came in 1450 to the final Grand Duchy of Moscow. Until the 17th century he remained an important center of the salt-works, which was now owned by the Trinity- Sergius and five other monasteries.
In the 15th century fortifications were built that could withstand a siege in 1532 by the Tatars.
In the Time of Troubles Soligalitsch 1609 seat of a voivode, destroyed by Polish troops and 1649 by a city fire.
1778 was the place the municipal law as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) of the government of Kostroma. 1808 destroyed almost the entire city a renewed fire. 1823 Salt Works was stopped and the city developed in the course of the century a center of Holzteerherstellung and blacksmithing.
Demographics
Note: Census data (1926-1939 rounded)
Culture and sights
Located in the historic city center, the Exaltation of the Cross Church ( Крестовоздвиженская церковь / Krestowosdwischenskaja Tserkov ) of 1817, the Saviour's Transfiguration church ( Преображенская церковь / Preobraschenskaja Tserkov ) of 1821, which Nicholas Church at Nawolok ( церковь Николы на Наволоке / Tserkov Nikoly na Nawoloke ) of 1688 and get the trade series from the mid-19th century.
On the banks of Kostroma the Resurrection Monastery are ( Воскресенский монастырь / Voskresensky monastyr ) with Church of the Resurrection ( Воскресенская церковь / Woskressenskaja Tserkov ) 1660-1669 and the Epiphany ( Богоявленская церковь / Bogoyavlensky Tserkov ) of 1681st In its vicinity is located, founded in 1335 Christ's Birth Monastery ( Рождественский монастырь / Rozhdestvensky monastyr ) with the Christ - Birth Church ( собор Рождества Христова / Tserkov Roschdestwa Christowa ) 1668-1805.
The city has a museum of local history, which is named after Gennady Nevelskoi.
Personalities
- Gennadi Nevelskoi (1813-1876), admiral and explorer, born in the estate Drakino at Soligalitsch
Economy
Soligalitsch is the center of the timber and building materials industry ( limestone and flour ). In addition, smaller companies in the textile and food industries.
The city is since 1841 also balneological resort based on local salt springs and healing mud.