Ryazhsk

Ryazhsk (Russian Ряжск ) is a town in Ryazan Oblast (Russia) with 21,674 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the northwestern edge of the Oka -Don plain about 120 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Ryazan on the Chupta, a right tributary of the Volga river system in Ranowa.

Ryazhsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1502 under the name Rjassk. It was a fortified settlement, which controlled the land route ( Wolok ) between the rivers Chupta ( basin of the Oka ) and Stanowaja Rjassa ( basin of the Don ). In the 16th and 17th centuries, the names Rjaskoi and Rjaskow were to be found. At this time the village belonged to the fortifications along the southeastern border of the former Russian Empire.

1778 the municipal law as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) was awarded in Ryazan province.

In 1870 the city became an important railway junction. The settlement near the train station, about three miles east of the old city center located, was spun off in the Soviet period as urban-type settlement by the name of Noworjaschski, later also Novo- Ryazhsk ( " New Ryazhsk " ), but incorporated again in the 1960s.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of local history.

In nine kilometers away in the village of Bolshaya Aleschnja Rajons Ryazhsk the former country estate of the noble family Kikin - Yermolov lies with the Blessed Mother Birth Church ( Рождественская церковь / Roschdestwenskaja Tserkov ) of 1805.

In the 35 km distant Saborowo (also Spasskoye ) is the former country estate of General Mikhail Skobeliov ( 1843-1882 ), hero of the Russo- Ottoman War 1877-1878 and the Russian conquest of Turkestan, which in the local Church of the Redeemer ( Спасская церковь / Spasskaya Tserkov ) is buried by 1764.

Economy and infrastructure

In Ryazhsk there are companies in the food industry as well as a security printing.

The city is a major railway junction. Here the cross sections Moscow ( Paveletskaya Station ) - and Smolensk Tula Ryazhsk - Penza ( station Ryazhsk I) and Moscow ( Kazansky railway station ) - Ryazan - Voronezh and Tambov - Saratov ( station Ryazhsk II; kilometer 313).

By Ryazhsk leads the regional road R126 Ryazan Dankow - Yefremov.