Sudogda

Sudogda (Russian Судогда ) is a town in Vladimir Oblast (Russia) with 11,848 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the Meschtschoraniederung about 40 km southeast of Oblasthauptstadt Vladimir on the left bank of the Sudogda, a right tributary of the Volga river system in Klyazma.

Sudogda is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

The place was first mentioned in documents from the early 17th century as Sudogodskaja sloboda, later simply as Kirchdorf Sudogda. The appointment was made after the river, and Finno- Ugric origin is.

1778, despite the small population, the city charter as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) was awarded. 1788 joined a general development plan in force.

1806 and 1838, the city was hit hard by fires affected. An economic boom came in the second half of the 19th century: in 1879 the first linen mill was opened in 1897 was a work for glass bottles.

Demographics

Note: ( rounded from 1926 to 1939 ) from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

In Sudogda St. Catherine's Cathedral are ( Екатерининский собор / Ekaterininsky Sobor ) of 1814 and the Alexander Nevsky Church ( церковь Александра Невского / Tserkov Alexandra Nevskogo ) of 1870.

The city has a museum of local history.

Economy and infrastructure

The main business of the city is a factory for mineral wool on the basis of the former bottle factory. There are also companies in the textile, furniture and food industries.

The town is the end point of a 46 -kilometer-long railway line ( freight only ), which branches off at the station Wolossataja the track Murom Kovrov.

By Sudogda, the road R72 ( Vladimir Murom Arzamas ).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Nikolai Vladimirovich Krylov (* 1941), Russian mathematician