Dedovichi

Dedowitschi (Russian Дедовичи ) is an urban-type settlement in the Pskov oblast (Russia) with 8798 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is situated on the right bank of the Schelon, a tributary of Lake Ilmen, below the confluence of the left tributary Sudoma approximately 100 kilometers east-southeast of the crow Oblasthauptstadt Pskov.

Dedowitschi is the administrative center of the Rajons Dedowitschski and only town in the municipality ( gorodskoje posselenije ) Dedowitschi.

History

The place was on September 11, 1901 during the construction of the railway line Saint Petersburg - founded Vitebsk as a station settlement in place of the churchyard Wyssokoje and named after the nearest villages Bolshoi and Maly Dedowez Dedowez.

With the establishment of a Rajons 1927 Dedowitschi was its center. During World War II Dedowitschi that had been the end of July 1941 occupied by the German Wehrmacht, was from February to September 1942 as a center of several thousand square kilometer area in the hands of Soviet partisans. Final Dedowitschi was the end of February 1944 recaptured in the Leningrad - Novgorod operation of the 1st Shock Army of the Red Army, which faced the 16th Army of the Wehrmacht in the area of the settlement.

1967, the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

A few kilometers south of Dedowitschi is the Pskov thermal power station ( GRES Pskowskaja ). The natural gas fueled power plant with a capacity of 430 MW, was taken between 1993 and 1996 in operation and is now part of OGK -2. There is also in place companies in the forestry and wood processing industry, the food industry and a factory for plastic products.

The settlement is located on the railway line Saint Petersburg - Nowosokolniki - Vitebsk ( 277 km distance from Saint Petersburg Vitebsk railway station). From Dedowitschi is connecting to the 12 km to the west past the leading regional road R57, passing through the eastern part of the oblast leads from Porkhov the R58 between Noworschew and Beschanizy.

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