Zhukov, Kaluga Oblast

Zhukov (Russian Жуков ) is a city in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) with 12,131 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 90 km north-west of Kaluga Oblasthauptstadt on the left bank of the Protva, a left tributary of the opening into the Volga River Oka.

Zhukov is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

The town was founded in the early 17th century. Since 1656 he called himself in connection with the opening of an ironworks as this Ugodski Zavod.

After the closure of the plant in 1780, the village became a trading center of the circle ( Ujesds ) Maloyaroslavets. In the 19th century it lost its regional economic importance gradually; Main occupation of the population was now the craft (for example, carpentry and jeweler crafts). Even at the turn of the 20th century, however, the village was cultural center of the area; so there was a choir, a theater, a library, a girl Sunday school and the only bookstore of the circle.

In 1974, the village in honor of Marshal Georgy Zhukov ( 1896-1974 ) renamed Schukowo. A few kilometers south-west was from 1957, the workers' settlement Protva incurred in connection with the construction of a machine factory, which received the status of an urban-type settlement in the 1960s. Just south of this place is Zhukov's birthplace Strelkowka. Protva and the village Schukowo were combined in 1996 and received under the present name form the municipal law. The coat of arms shows since the St. George, according to Zhukov's first name.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In Zhukov is the monumental State G. K. Zhukov - Museum, which was founded during the lifetime of Marshal 1960 - a time in which he was officially dropped in " disgrace ". The present building was built after the death of the Marshal, as well as a dedicated to him architecture and sculpture complex in his birthplace near Strelkowka.

In the village of Tarutino Rajons Zhukov, where at times was the headquarters of the Russian commander in chief Mikhail Kutuzov in the Patriotic War of 1812, there is a museum and a monument of 1834.

( 1743-1810, née Countess Vorontsova confidante of Catherine II and protagonist of the Enlightenment in Russia) In Troizkoje the country seat of Princess Yekaterina Daschkowa are from the 18th century, and her grave. In Spas- Prognanje a museum and the grave of the mathematician Chebyshev are Pafnuti (1821-1894).

Economy and infrastructure

In Zhukov, there are companies in the textile industry ( Technotex ), the timber industry and the wood processing industry (furniture ) and the food industry.

The city is the nearest railway station is in about ten kilometers west located at Obninsk in 1899 opened railway line Moscow - Bryansk Kiev ( kilometer 106; station name Obninskoje ).

Near Obninsk also lead the highways M3 Moscow - Bryansk - Ukrainian border ( then on to Kiev) and A101 Moscow Roslawl - Belarusian border west to Zhukov over.