Kuvshinovo

Kuwschinowo (Russian Кувшиново ) is a town in Tver Oblast (Russia) with 10,007 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the Valdai Hills about 130 kilometers west of Tver Oblasthauptstadt at the Twerza, a left tributary of the Volga, which opens Ossuga.

Kuwschinowo is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city is located on the 1928 through opened railway Torzhok - Soblago.

History

The place was first mentioned in 1624 as a village Kamenskoje documented.

1829 by Earl W. P. Musin - Pushkin founded a paper mill, which bought the business M. Kuwschinow at the beginning of the 1870s. The opened in 1910 near railway station was named after the Kuwschinowo factory and landowners. The resulting eponymous settlement grew around the station along with the old village Kamenskoje.

1938, the place as Rajonverwaltungszentrum Kamenka a city charter.

Early 1963 Rajon was dissolved and part of the Rajons Torzhok, but restored in 1965, while renaming the city in Kuwschinowo, as there are a number of other places with names Kamenka in Russia. The designation of a city in the Soviet period for a pre-revolutionary factory was exceptional; However kuwschinka is in Russian for dough (see also coat of arms ).

Demographics

Note: Census data (1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

In Kuwschinowo some buildings have survived from the early 20th century, as the People's House of 1913 and the home of the factory owner JM Kuwschinowa of 1916.

In the village Prjamuchino the former country estate of the Bakunin family is with Colonnade, church and park.

Personalities

• Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), revolutionary and anarchist, born in Prjamuchino, today Rajon Kuwschinowo

Economy

In addition to the paper and board mill, there are companies in the timber industry.