Sychyovka, Sychyovsky District, Smolensk Oblast

Sytschowka (Russian Сычёвка, German and false Sychevka ) is a town in Smolensk Oblast (Russia) with 8111 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is situated on the northern edge of the Sytschowka - Wjasmaer heights about 235 kilometers northeast of Smolensk Oblasthauptstadt at the Wasusa, a right tributary of the Volga.

Sytschowka is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1881 railway Lichoslawl - Torzhok - Rzhev - Wjasma ( kilometer 184).

History

Sytschowka was the first time in 1488 as the Tver Prince Ivan Molodoy, a son of Tsar Ivan III. mentioned belonging to the village. At 1493 it belonged to the Imperial Court. The name is sytsch for fellow from the Russian word - in the figurative sense - derived (see also coat of arms ).

In 1776 the town was awarded its town charter.

During World War II Sytschowka was occupied on 10 October 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and on March 8, 1943 retaken by troops of the Western Front of the Red Army after the evacuation of the front arc of Rzhev by the Wehrmacht.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of local history.

In the village Sokolino the Epiphany Church is ( Богоявленская церковь / Bogoyavlensky Tserkov ) of 1847. Near the former country seat Dugino, the diplomat Count Nikita Panin is ( 1770-1837, including Ambassador in Berlin) from the 18th to 19th centuries. In the village of Boris Gleb, the Boris and Gleb Church ( Борисоглебская / Borissoglebskaja Tserkov ) are from 1771 and the Niluskirche ( Нильская / Nilskaja Tserkov ) of 1897.

Economy

In Sytschowka there is an electrical factory, a printing and enterprises of the timber and the food industry.