Cherdyn, Perm Krai
Tscherdyn (Russian Чердынь ) is a small town in the Perm region (Russia) with 4920 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city is located on the western flank of the Northern Urals about 300 km north of the regional capital of Perm on the right bank of the Kolva near its mouth into the Visher, a left tributary of the Kama.
Tscherdyn is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.
History
Tscherdyn was created in 1451 as komi permjakische settlement and was to the 16th century capital of the northern Uralvorlandes ( Welikaja Perm, " Large -perm "). The place name is derived from the Komi - words for mouth of a creek.
Since 1472 the Grand Duchy of Moscow belonging, the place obtained in 1535 the official city status. Here had the Cherdyn road ( Чердынская дорога ) their starting point, until the opening of - was 1598 's most important trading route across the Urals to Western Siberia Babinow Street - south running. After that, the city lost its importance to the emerging Solikamsk, but remained until the 19th century major regional transshipment point for cereals, fish and fur products.
Demographics
Note: Census data (1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
Since Tscherdyn remained virtually untouched by the industrialization of the 20th century, the architectural ensemble of the city from the 18th and 19th centuries is relatively well preserved. The most important buildings are the apostle John's Church ( церковь Иоанна Богослова / Tserkov Ioanna Bogoslowa, 1705-1718 ), Christ's Resurrection Cathedral ( Воскресенский собор / Voskresensky Sobor, 1750-1754 ), the Saviour's Transfiguration Church ( церковь Преображения / Tserkov Preobrazhenija, 1756 ), the building of the former arsenal (first half of the 18th century ), the Commercial Court ( Gostiny dvor, 1857) and the City Duma.
In Tscherdyn there is a local history museum.
Personalities
- Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), Russian poet, spent his first exile in Tscherdyn
Economy
Tscherdyn is the center of the timber industry.