Ozyorny, Tver Oblast

Osjorny (Russian Озёрный ) is a closed ( SATO ) urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast (Russia) with 10,882 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement located 170 km as the crow northwest of the Oblastverwaltungszentrums Tver and a good 20 km west of the city Bologoje. She closes immediately southwest of the rural settlement Wypolsowo.

The settlement forms as the only town a town ( gorodskoje posselenije ).

History

The place dates back to a military settlement that emerged in the 1930s at an airfield. In the 1960s, there is a unit of the Strategic Missile Forces was stationed. In this context, the place has been greatly expanded by the establishment of a housing estate. On November 24, 1972, he was given the official status of a secret military town ( wojenny gorodok ), codenamed Bologoje - fourth At NATO, this site was named after another, northwest village as Jedrowo or as Wypolsowo; from the 1970s, intercontinental missiles were stationed MR UR -100 ( SS -17).

By order of December 24, 1992 Osjorny received the status of an urban-type settlement and a " closed- administrative-territorial unit ( SATO ) " under the current name, derived from Ozero, the Russian word for lake.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Attractions

1998 in Osjorny the Andrew's Church ( собор Андрея Первозванного, Sobor Andreja Perwoswannowo ) built.

Economy and infrastructure

Osjorny is a residential development site of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia, to the still missiles RS -12M Topol (SS -25) are stationed.

Not far from the settlement, by Wypolsowo, the M10 highway connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg runs. The nearest railway station is located about 7 km north-west at Jedrowo on the railway line Bologoje - Pskov, where a freight terminal stretch leads to Osjorny.

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