Redkino, Konakovsky District, Tver Oblast

Redkino (Russian Редкино ) is an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast (Russia) with 11,703 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is located about 35 km southeast of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Tver between the north-east flowing river Volga and the south verlaufendem right tributary Shosha. Of the two rivers that are dammed there to Iwankowoer Reservoir, the place is good 6 km away.

Redkino belongs to Rajon Konakowski and is 30 km west-southwest of the administrative center Konakovo. It is the seat and only town of the same township ( gorodskoje posselenije ).

Iwankowoer Reservoir south of Redkino, of the railway line from

History

On known since the 16th century village of Nikolai Redkino the train from St. Petersburg in 1851 passed to Moscow and opened a station. As a result emerged in their environment, some businesses. Towards the end of the 19th century began on a large scale with the peat, and in 1902 opened a coke plant, was produced in the coke of peat; It burned down in 1905 and was reopened only in 1920.

With the flooding of the reservoir Iwankowoer in the 1930s, a portion of the inhabitants of the flooded villages were relocated to Redkino whose inhabitants thus grew to over 4,000. 1939, so that in the status of an urban-type settlement.

During World War II Redkino was occupied by 17 November to 13 December 1941 by the German Wehrmacht. The previously blown up by the retreating Red Army coking already took 1942 operating again on, was converted in the 1950s in a chemical factory and remained until its closure in the 1990s, forming local companies.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Redkino located at kilometer 517 on this section of the electrified railway line since 1957, St Petersburg - Moscow, branches off from the goods there a connection route to settlement located 6 km west Isoplit. To Moscow and Tver is suburban trains.

About 6 km north-east of the settlement leads on the right bank of the Volga by the federal highway M10 Rossiya from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.