Sobinka

Sobinka (Russian Собинка ) is a town in Vladimir Oblast (Russia) with 19,482 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the north- western part of the Meschtschoraniederung about 40 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Vladimir on the right bank of the Klyazma, a left tributary of the opening into the Volga River Oka.

Sobinka is the Oblast administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons. The neighboring city Lakinsk is Sobinka subordinated administratively.

History

The town was first mentioned as a desert Sobinowa, ie the Sobina belonging that comes up as a male first name in sources from the area since the 15th century.

In the 1850s by the brothers here Losev a textile factory was established to which a workers' settlement was established. In the 1920s, the place was temporarily Komawangard, as a short form of the name nunmehrigen the textile factory Kommunistitscheski derived Avangard (Russian for Communist vanguard ).

1939 the city charter was granted.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of local history.

In the village of Orechowo Rajons Sobinka a Zhukovsky Memorial Museum is for the born there " father of Russian aviation".

Economy and infrastructure

In Sobinka there are companies in the textile industry, instrument engineering (suppliers to automotive industry, medical technology) and the timber industry.

The station Undol in Lakinsk is four kilometers away from Sobinka and lies on the railway line opened in 1862 Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod ( kilometer 161 ), on which today runs a lot of the features of the Trans-Siberian railway on its western part from Moscow. The highway M7 Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod -Kazan - Ufa (part of European route 22) also runs through the neighboring Lakinsk.