Osa, Perm Krai
Ossa (Russian Оса ) is a city in the Perm region (Russia) with 21 188 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city is located in the foothills of the Middle Urals about 110 km south-west of the regional capital of Perm on the left bank of the dam here to Votkinsk pent Kama near the mouth of the Tulwa.
Ossa is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.
History
Ossa was 1591 ( or 1596) as a settlement Nowonikolskaja sloboda in place of older, Ossinskoje Gorodischtsche called attachment remains. Later the settlement to protect the former eastern borders of Russia Tsardom was fixed again.
In the 18th century the most important trade route led to Siberia ( Siberian ) tract through the city. 1708 the place was already awarded under the present name for the first time the town charter, in 1718, he lost it and got it in 1737 (or 1739 ) again. During this time, the area around the city was ravaged by a bloody uprising of the Bashkirs. 1740 succeeded to the 500 men (mostly Cossack ) enlarged garrison of the fortress Ossa quell the Bashkirs and pacify. In the same year, the French explorer De Lisle arrived in the city. In 1781 the city was the administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) the governorship or the later province of Perm.
A certain revival took the city, as in 1960, oil was found in the area.
Demographics
Note: Census data (1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
Although part of the city was abandoned in the flooding of the reservoir Votkinsk around 1961, a significant number of religious and secular buildings of the 18th is received until the early 20th century. These include the Dormition Cathedral ( Успенский собор / Uspensky Sobor, 1790-1800 ), the Holy Trinity Cathedral ( Троицкий собор / Troitsky Sobor, 1902-1916 ), a mosque dating from the mid 19th century, the building of the provincial governors and Ujesdkanzlei (both 1800-1802 ) and the trade Court ( Gostiny dvor, first half of 19th century ).
In the town there is a museum of local history.
Economy
In Ossa a machine factory ( equipment for Lebensmittelindunstrie ) is established next to enterprises of the timber and food industry. In Rajon is sponsored by Ossinskneft oil since the 1960s.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Natalya Burdyga (* 1983), biathlete