Trubchevsk

Trubchevsk (Russian Трубчевск ) is a town in Bryansk Oblast (Russia) with 15,014 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 100 km south of Bryansk Oblasthauptstadt at the mouth of the river on the right bank of the Desna Nerussa, a left tributary of the Dnieper.

Trubchevsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

Trubchevsk emerged as one of the oldest Russian cities was first documented in the year 975, it was a city in the Principality of Chernigov in 1164 ( according to other sources 1185 in connection with a campaign against the Polovtsian ). In the chronicles of the city appears under the name Trubetsch, Trubezk, Trubtschesk or Trubesch derived from an ancient Russian name a ( narrow ) river, see truba for pipe.

The city was one of the most important in Sewerien, from the 12th -century center of an autonomous Lehnsfürstentums until it was destroyed in 1240 by the Mongols.

From the second half of the 14th century Trubchevsk belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1503 to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, from 1609 to 1644 with the Kingdom of Poland. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was a border state between the Moscow State and Poland - Lithuania.

From 17 am in the 19th century was Trubchevsk known for the cultivation of hemp and the production of hemp fabrics and hemp oil. 1778 modern municipal law as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) was awarded.

During World War II Trubchevsk was occupied on 9 October 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 18 September 1943 by troops of the Bryansk Front Red Army.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926-1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

Located away from the main traffic flows since the 19th century, the city's economy developed weakly in a row, so that she could preserve its rural character to this day. In Trubchevsk the Trinity cathedral ( Троицкий собор / Troitsky Sobor ) from the 16th century, the Saviour's Transfiguration Church ( церковь Преображенская / Preobraschenskaja Tserkov ) from the 17th century, the Intercession Intercession Church ( Покровская церковь / Pokrowskaja Tserkov ) from the 18th century and 19th century, the Elias Church ( Ильинская церковь / Iljinskaja Tserkov ) and the Church of the Presentation of the Lord ( Сретенская церковь / receive Sretenskaja Tserkov ). The oldest surviving residential building dates from the 17th century.

The city has a local history museum and a planetarium.

Economy and infrastructure

In Trubchevsk there is a work for radio electronics ( Nerussa ), companies in the food, textile and wood processing industry and the timber industry.

The city is located is the end of a 36 -kilometer-long railway line which branches off in Susemka of the Moscow- Bryansk Kiev ( only freight).

Personalities

• Ivan Petrov (1896-1958), General of the Army, born in Trubchevsk
• Anastasia Wjalzewa (1871-1913), famous operettas and Romance singer, born in Trubchevsk