Zapadnaya Dvina

Sapadnaja Dvina (Russian Западная Двина ) is a town in Tver Oblast (Russia) with 9378 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the southwestern edge of the Valdai Hills about 320 kilometers southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Tver on the right bank of the Daugava river.

Sapadnaja Dvina is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1901 railway Moscow -Riga ( kilometer 378 ) and on the highway M9 Moscow Welikije Luki - Latvian border ( more about Rezekne Riga ).

History

Sapadnaja Dvina was created in 1900 in connection with the construction of a station on the railway between Moscow and Windawa. The station and the associated settlement received its name after the Daugava River, which is called in Russian Sapadnaja Dvina, Western Dvina.

1927 was the place the status of an urban-type settlement and 1937, the city law.

During World War II Sapadnaja Dvina was occupied on 6 October 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on January 21, 1942 by troops of the North West Front of the Red Army under the Toropetz - Kholm operation.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In Sapadnaja Dvina, there are companies in the timber industry, wood processing, textile and food industries.