Oboyan

Oboyan (Russian Обоянь ) is a town in Kursk Oblast (Russia) with 13,565 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the southern part of the Central Russian plate about 60 km south of Kursk Oblasthauptstadt at the mouth of the river Obojanka the high right bank of the Psel, a left tributary of the Dnieper.

Oboyan is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

Nikolai Karamzin brings in his History of the Russian State (1818 ) in the ancient Russian chronicles for 1147 Town called Wejachan (also Bejachan ) with the city Oboyan in connection, but what there is inadequate evidence.

Today's Oboyan and in 1639 as a fortress at the former southern border of the Russian Empire. The name after the river originally Bojan or Bajan said, opening into the Psel is probable Turkic origin.

1779 the municipal law as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) was awarded.

During World War II Oboyan was occupied on 16 November 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 18 February 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front Red Army during the Battle of Kharkov.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926-1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

The center of Oboyan has its small town feel with two-story merchant houses and other buildings from the 19th century, as the girls Progymnasium preserved. These are of the monumental five -domed Alexander Nevsky Cathedral ( собор Александра Невского / Sobor Alexandra Nevskogo ) from 1907 dominates. In addition, the Trinity Cathedral ( Троицкий собор / Troitsky Sobor ) and the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of Smolensk, Smolensk shortly Church ( Смоленская церковь / Smolenskaja Tserkov ) is obtained.

In Oboyan there is a memorial complex to the fallen at the battle of Kursk in 1943 the Red Army.

Economy and infrastructure

In Oboyan there is an existing plant since 1947 for particleboard and companies in the food industry.

The town is the terminus of a 32 -kilometer-long railway line which branches off in Rschawa of the Moscow- Kursk -Kharkiv (only freight). This line was opened in 1881 as a narrow gauge railway with the rare in Russia track width of 914 mm and 1936 umgespurt to 1937 on broad gauge.

By Oboyan the highway M2 leads Moscow - Kursk - Belgorod- Ukrainian border and to Kharkiv (part of the European Route 105).