Toropets

Toropetz (Russian Торопец ) is a town in Tver Oblast (Russia) with 13,015 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the western part of the Valdai Hills about 330 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Tver on the right bank of the here Solomennoje lake flowing through Toropa, a right tributary of the Daugava.

Toropetz is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The town lies on the railway line opened in 1907 Bologoje - Welikije Luki ( - Belarusian border) ( kilometer 236). The highway M9 Moscow Welikije Luki - Latvian border ( more about Rezekne Riga ) performs Staraya Toropa about 20 kilometers south of the city.

History

Toropetz was first mentioned in the Hypatiuschronik those for the year 1074 situated as the Principality of Smolensk origin of the monk of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and later Russian Orthodox saints Isaac ( Issaki ) Petschorski. The name is derived from the river Toropa. The Russian word stem Torop refers to the rapid, urgent flow of the river, especially in the mouth area in the Daugava River.

1167 (or 1168 ) was the capital of an independent principality place, however, which the Republic of Novgorod was incorporated. Since the 13th century repeated attacks by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania exposed, it was conquered half of the 14th century under Algirdas of this.

1503 Toropetz was recaptured by the Grand Duchy of Moscow and developed in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries, one of the most important trade and craft centers on the western border of Russia. 1580 there was a battle in the war of Poland-Lithuania against Russia here. Another interruption of the growth was due to the destruction of the city by Polish troops 1632-34.

1708, the city came to the province Ingria, in its extreme south, it was; In 1777 it was the administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) of the government of Pskov.

After the completion of the railway in 1907 Toropetz became a center of the timber trade.

Since 1935, the city is part of the Tver Oblast (formerly Kalinin ).

During World War II Toropetz was occupied on August 29, 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on January 21, 1942 by troops of the North West Front of the Red Army under the Toropetz - Kholm operation.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

In Toropetz relatively large number of buildings are of 17th to early 19th century.

These include the complex of Nebin - Trinity Monastery ( Троицкий Небин монастырь / Troizki Nebin monastyr ) from the 17th to the 18th century, the Korsun- Christ - Birth Church ( собор Корсунско - Богородицкий / Korsunsko - Bogorodizki Sobor ) 1795-1804 ), the Church of the Epiphany ( Богоявленская церковь / Bogoyavlensky Tserkov ) from 1751 to 1771, St. Nicholas Church ( Никольская церковь / Nikolskaja Tserkov ) of 1666), the intercession intercession Church ( Покровская церковь / Pokrowskaja Tserkov ) of 1766, the Church of John the Baptist ( церковь Иоанна Предтечи / Tserkov Ioanna Predtechi ) from 1703 to 1704, the Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Kazan shortly Church ( Казанская церковь / Kazanskaya Tserkov ) from 1698 to 1765 and more. Many stone houses - usually in small Russian towns timber construction was often the case - from the 18th and the first half of the 19th century.

The city has a museum of local history.

Personalities

  • Evgenia Petrovna Antipowa (1917-2009), painter and art teacher
  • Tikhon (1865-1925), Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, born in Toropetz

Economy

In Toropetz there are companies in the wood processing, textiles and footwear, as well as the food industry.

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