Sukhinichi

Sukhinichi (Russian Сухиничи ) is a city in Kaluga Oblast (Russia) with 16,273 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 100 km south-west of Kaluga Oblasthauptstadt at Bryn, a left tributary of the Schisdra in the river system of the Volga.

Sukhinichi is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

Sukhinichi was founded in the first half of the 18th century as a village. The name is derived from a spread in the area call or family name Suchin or Suchinin. At the beginning of the 19th century formed Sukhinichi along with several surrounding villages a larger community ( obshchina ) directly to the Tsar's court imputed farmer and was a significant storage and trading center, particularly for agricultural products.

1840, the city charter was granted. Towards the end of the 19th century Sukhinichi became an important railway junction.

During World War II Sukhinichi was occupied on 7 October 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 29 January 1942 by the Western Front of the Red Army in the Rzhev - Wjasmaer operation. As a major railway hub, the city was particularly hard-fought early 1942.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

Economy and infrastructure

In Sukhinichi there are plants of the device construction, textile and food industry, construction and a plastic factory.

The city is an important railway junction on the opened on this section 1899 Moscow- Bryansk Kiev ( station name Suchinitschii - Glawnyje (Hauptbahnhof), kilometer 261). This line is here crossed by the route also opened in 1899 Smolensk - Chaplygin and Tula. Also, here is branched over a further distance from Kirov after Roslawl ( opened in 1935 ). Here are a freight station with sidings and a depot with railroad shops.

The M3 highway Moscow - Bryansk - Ukrainian border ( from there to Kiev) leads north-west past the town.

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