Lyudinovo

Ljudinowo (Russian Людиново ) is a city in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) with 40,530 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 180 km south-west of Kaluga Oblasthauptstadt on here for Ljudinowoer Dam dammed river Nepolot, near its confluence with the Bolwa in the river system of the Dnieper.

Ljudinowo the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

A village Ljudinowo was first mentioned in documents in 1626.

At the beginning of the 18th century did the Industrial Evdokim Demidov from the Urals to the river Nepolot two dams and an iron foundry build the 1738 and started operations. 1745 was added another ironworks.

1820 acquired by industrialist Malzow the works in 1841 began the production of railroad tracks, after the Crimean War from 1857 to 1858 smaller ships for the Black Sea fleet and riverboats, 1879 a first freight train steam locomotive built here.

1938, the city charter was granted, incorporated the workers' estate Sukreml the following year.

During World War II Ljudinowo was occupied on October 4, 1941 by the German Wehrmacht. On January 9, 1942, the city of the Western Front of the Red Army was temporarily recaptured as part of the Rzhev - Wjasmaer operation before re- fell into German hands on 17 January 1942. On September 9, 1943, the final capture by the Soviet Bryansk Front during advancement of Bryansk.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1897 rounded)

Culture and sights

In the city the Sergius - of - Radonezh Church ( церковь Сергия Радонежского / Tserkov Sergija Radoneschskogo ) are from the late 19th century, the bell tower of Trinity Church ( церковь Троицкая / Troitskaya Tserkov ) from 1836, the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Church ( церковь Параскевы Пятницы ) obtained from the mid-19th century as well as other churches.

Economy and infrastructure

The main business of the city is a work for diesel locomotives, which was based on the old iron works and later steam locomotive factory from the 1930s. There are also other establishments of mechanical engineering ( hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, machine tools), the textile, furniture and food industries as well as a plastic factory.

The town lies on the railway line opened in 1934 Wjasma - Bryansk. A narrow gauge railway, the so-called Malzowbahn of Bryansk, existed since the 19th century.

By Ljudinowo the regional road R68 Bryansk Dyatkovo - Ljudinowo -Kirov leads ( until connection to highway A101 ) from which branches off a cross connection to the highway M3 at Schisdra here.