Glazov

Glasow (Russian Глазов, Udmurt Глаз / glass ) is a town with 95 854 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Republic of Udmurtia in Russia.

It lies on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( 1163 km ) and the river Tschepza. The distance to Moscow is about 1160 km and to the Republic capital Izhevsk 180 km. The ancestors of the former Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev mother were long resident in Glasow as unfree peasants.

History

First mentioned in writing was the place in 1678, then as a village Glasowo, which got its name from a local noble family with the family name Glasow.

1780 Glasow received the city status as part of a local government reform and the province of Vyatka was awarded. But at that time the place did not even have 1,000 inhabitants and was afterwards for some time as a very insignificant and isolated city. For this reason, it was also used as a place of exile. The well-known author Vladimir Korolenko lived there in the 1880s in political exile.

End of the 19th century, a railway line was laid through the city, which was part of the Trans -Siberian Railway later. This meant that developed in Glasow in the early 20th century, trade in agricultural products. First industry came here but only in the Soviet era.

In the later 20th century Glasow was mainly expanded with new neighborhoods of prefabricated buildings. To date, received but is also the old town, which was rebuilt after a general plan of the 1780 - year and also includes a number of traditional wooden houses.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

Major industrial operation in Glasow is now the Tschepezki Mechanitscheski Sawod who specializes among other things, the processing of raw materials for the production of nuclear reactors. There is also in the city engineering, building materials and chemical industry, a furniture and a feed mill.

Further education institutions

  • Branch of Izhevsk State Technical University
  • State Pedagogical Institute Glasow

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Konstantin Astrachanzew (born 1967 ), ice hockey player
  • Jelena Jefajewa (* 1989), figure skater
  • Nikolai Kasakowzew (* 1990), ice hockey player
  • Olga Knipper (1869-1959), actress, wife of Anton Chekhov
  • Ivan Lekomzew ( born 1985 ), ice hockey player
  • Vyacheslav Nagowizyn (* 1956), politician
  • Alexei Tschupin (born 1972 ), ice hockey player
  • Tuktamyschewa Elizabeth (* 1996), figure skater
  • Alexej Baumgartner (* 1988), speed skaters
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