Rudnya, Rudnyansky District, Smolensk Oblast

Rudnia (Russian Рудня ) is a town in Smolensk Oblast (Russia) with 10,030 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the Vitebsk heights near the western border of Russia about 70 kilometers northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Smolensk to the Berezina little ( Malaya Berezina River ), a tributary of the opening into the Dnieper River Berezina (not to be confused with the Bjaresina ).

Rudnia is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1868 railway Smolensk - Vitebsk - Polotsk ( before 1917 part of the Riga - Orjoler railway).

History

The place was first mentioned in 1363 as a settlement Rodnja.

Later today's form of the name was in use, under which the place received its town charter in 1926.

During World War II Rudnia was occupied on 14 July 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 29 September 1943 by troops of the Kalinin Front Red Army under the Duchowschtschina - Demidower operation.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1897 rounded)

Culture and sights

In Rudnia there is a history museum and a Mikhail Yegorov - Memorial Museum.

In the village Ljubawitschi the Assumption Church is ( Успенская церковь / Uspenskaja Tserkov ) from the 18th century and the Jewish cemetery obtain, in the village Mikulino the Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov ) from the 19th century.

Personalities

• Mikhail Yegorov (1923-1975), sergeant of the Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the soldiers who raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag on 30 April 1945; Born in Jermoschenki at Rudnia

Economy

In Rudnia as the center of an agricultural area companies in the food industry are mainly located; in the near settlement Golynki a glass factory.