Pustoshka, Pustoshkinsky District, Pskov Oblast

Pustoschka (Russian Пустошка ) is a town in Pskov Oblast (Russia) with 4619 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 190 kilometers south of the Oblasthauptstadt Pskov on the river Krupaja and the Krupeiskoje lake in the catchment area of ​​the Welikaja in Welikaja level.

Pustoschka is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1901 railway Moscow -Riga ( kilometer 558 ). In Pustoschka the highways M9 Moscow Welikije cross Luki - Latvian border ( more about Rezekne Riga ) and M20 from Saint Petersburg to Newel and continues through Belarus to Ukraine (Kiev, Odessa).

History

Pustoschka was built around 1900 as a station settlement in connection with the construction of the railway line Moscow - Windawa.

1925, the city charter was granted.

During World War II Pustoschka was occupied on 16 July 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 27 February 1944 by troops of the 2nd Baltic Front of the Red Army in the Staraya Russa - Noworschewer operation.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926-1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

At the village Sawolotschje am See Podzo there are several tumuli groups from the second half of the 1st millennium BC.

Economy

In Pustoschka there are companies in the timber industry and the food industry.

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