Lyuban (town), Leningrad Oblast
Lyuban (Russian Любань ) is a small town in the northwestern Russian Leningrad Oblast. She has (October 14, 2010 Balance ) 4188 inhabitants.
Geography
The city is located about 85 km southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Saint Petersburg at the Tigoda, a left tributary of the Volkhov.
Lyuban belongs to Rajon Tosno.
History
The place was first mentioned in documents of the Republic of Novgorod in 1500.
1711 road between Saint Petersburg and Moscow, was led through the village; the writer Alexander Radishchev devoted a chapter to his critical journey from Petersburg to Moscow.
After the first Russian long-distance railway from St. Petersburg to Moscow was also conducted through the village, it developed from the mid-19th century to a particular resort for wealthy inhabitants of St Petersburg.
1912, the city charter was granted.
During World War II Lyuban was occupied on 25 August 1941 by the German Wehrmacht. An attempt by the Red Army, the city recapture called counter-offensive in early 1942 in the later Ljubaner operation came at the entrances to the city under huge losses to a halt. Only two years later, on 28 January 1944 troops could occupy in the Leningrad - Novgorod operation of the Volkhov Front Lyuban.
Demographics
Note: Census data (1897-1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
In the city is built in 1867, the Peter and Paul Church of the architect Konstantin Thon.
Economy and infrastructure
In Lyuban there are companies in the timber industry and the wood processing industry.
The town lies on the railway in 1851 opened Nikolai Saint Petersburg- Moscow ( kilometer 83).
By Lyuban the M10 highway leads (also European Route 105) Moscow - Saint Petersburg, from which the regional road R41 branches here about Mga after Pavlovo at Kirovsk.
Personalities
- Pavel Melnikov (1804-1880), author of the project and the project supervisor of Nikolai train, first Minister of Transport, Russian Empire; buried in Lyuban
- Andrei Rjabuschkin (1861-1904), painter; lived from 1901 at Lyuban buried here
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828-1889), writer; worked in 1860 in Lyuban