Strunino, Vladimir Oblast

Strunino (Russian Струнино ) is a town in Vladimir Oblast (Russia) with 14,369 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city lies at the eastern end of the Moscow ridge about 130 km northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Vladimir at the Pitschkura, a source flow of Scherna in the river system of the Volga.

Strunino belongs to Rajon Alexandrov and is in fact the satellite town located a few kilometers east Rajonverwaltungszentrums.

History

The village Strunino was first mentioned in documents in 1492. The name is probably derived from the surname Strunin, which in turn goes back to a Fyodor Struna Suchorin from Pereslawl.

Arose in connection with the establishment of a textile factory, a housing estate, which became a town in 1938.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In Strunino the little Saviour's Transfiguration Church ( церковь Преображения Господня / Tserkov Preobrazhenija Gospodnja ) is 1893-1898. Business- Soviet period it was used as a house of the pioneers, but renovated in the 1990s and re-consecrated the church.

Economy and infrastructure

Most important companies in the city are the work of cotton fabrics and clothing Struninskaja manufaktura and a plant for carton packaging a Russian- Irish joint ventures.

The town lies on the railway opened in 1870 between Moscow and Yaroslavl, now part of the original route of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( kilometer 105), of which here is the Northeast section of the Great Moscow railway ring branches off towards Orechowo - Zuyevo.

The road R75, which connects the highway M7 ( west Vladimir) on Kolchugino and Alexandrov with the M8 north Sergiev Posad leads north past Strunino.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Pavel Kuznetsov ( b. 1961 ), Weightlifting