Chernyanka, Belgorod Oblast

Tschernjanka (Russian Чернянка ) is an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast (Russia) with 15,217 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is located in the southern part of the Central Russian land back, approximately 90 line kilometers northeast of the Oblastverwaltungszentrums Belgorod on the left bank of the Oskol, a tributary of the Seversky Donets.

Tschernjanka is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Tschernjanka.

History

Its history begins in the 17th century, when farmers settled in the territory of the former southern border of the Russian Empire. As a founding year is 1656 as the year of the first mention of the place in a document from the 1670s. As a result the site was agricultural.

In the context of an administrative reform in 1928 Tschernjanka administrative center of a newly established Rajons in July. In 1958 it received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population Development

Note: 1897, 1959 to 2010 census data (1897 rounded)

Culture and sights

Since the 1980s, there Tschernjanka in a Historical and Folk Museum.

About 10 kilometers south of the village is located near the village Cholki the following closure in the Soviet period in 1998 re-opened Russian Orthodox Cholki Trinity monastery ( Свято - Троицкий Холковский монастырь, Swjato - Troitsk Cholkowski monastyr ). It was probably also first created in the 14th century by monks of the Kiev -Pechersk Lavra after whose mainly underground, first documented in 1620, 1764 resolved under Catherine II and rebuilt in the course of the 19th century. According to tradition, the monastery is located near the point where the Novgorod - Seversk Prince Igor Svyatoslavich (1151-1202) and the Pereslavl Prince Vladimir Glebowitsch (1157-1187) came together in 1185 for a campaign against the Cumans.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Fyodor Kassatkin - Rostowski (1875-1940), writer
  • Alexander Markov (1897-1968), Astronomer

Economy and infrastructure

In Tschernjanka as the center of an agricultural area companies in the food industry outweigh (sugar, dairy products, meat, cooking oil).

The settlement is located on the railway line Moscow - Yelets - Waluiki ( kilometer 655 ) and the regional road R188 Stary Oskol - Novy Oskol.

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