Rylsk, Russia

Rylsk (Russian Рыльск ) is a town in Kursk Oblast (Russia) with 15,671 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 125 km southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Kursk on the right bank of the Seim, a left tributary of the opening into the Dnieper River Desna.

Rylsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

Rylsk 1152 was a large settlement in the Principality of Novgorod - Seversky ( Sewerien ) first mentioned. The name is derived from the Slavic root word ryt for digging; Rylo or Ryla is also called a river nearby; Rylo also means (pig ) snout (see later coat of arms from the 19th century). The Russian Orthodox Church links the city name but with the Holy Ivan Rilski ( Russian spelling Rylski ); he is regarded as the patron saint of the city.

At the beginning of the 13th century Rylsk was the center of an autonomous principality.

In the mid-14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania captured the city. 1454 was the Polish king Casimir IV the city as a fief to the fled from Russia Prince Ivan Shemyaka. However, his son Vasily Ivanovich submitted to 1522 again the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

From the 16th to the early 18th century was Rylsk defense point on the southern border of the Russian Empire and an important trading point for the ( Polish ) Ukraine.

1779 the modern city law as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) was awarded.

During World War II Rylsk was occupied on October 5, 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 31 August 1943 by troops of the Central Front of the Red Army during the advance towards Chernihiv and Pripyat.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926-1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

In Rylsk the Assumption Cathedral ( Успенский собор / Uspensky Sobor ) are from 1811, the Intercession Intercession Cathedral ( собор Покровский / Pokrovsky Sobor ) of 1822 and the Church of the Resurrection ( Воскресенская церковь / Woskressenkaja Tserkov ) of 1866. Moreover, since 1505, the ensemble of the monastery are known Nikolai ( Никольский монастырь / Nikolski monastyr ) and get the trade rows from the 18th and early 19th century.

The city has a museum of local history.

20 kilometers east is the village of Ivanovskoe Rajons Rylsk the former country residence of Hetman Mazepa with several preserved buildings. Nearby is the former estate of the noble family Marjino Baryatinsky to which belongs an extensive landscaped park with artificial watercourses, rotunda, pavilions and sculptures.

Economy and infrastructure

In Rylsk there are enterprises of the light and food industries and the construction industry.

The town is the terminus of a 24 km long railway line which branches off in Korenjowo of the route Kiev - Kursk (only freight). This line was opened in 1889 as a narrow gauge railway with a track width of 1000 mm and initially led on to Sudzha. During the section Korenjowo - Sudzha was already decommissioned 1924-1928, spurts to the track after Rylsk 1957-1958 on broad gauge.

By Rylsk the regional road R199 leads Kursk Lgow - Ukrainian border and on to Hluchiw.

Personalities

  • Grigori Shelikof (1747-1795), sailor and entrepreneur, born in Rylsk
  • Lev Kamenev Lvovitch (1833 - 1886), landscape painter, born in Rylsk
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