Unecha

Unecha (Russian Унеча ) is a town in Bryansk Oblast (Russia) with 26 197 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 140 km south-west of Bryansk Oblasthauptstadt on the upper reaches of the opening into the Iput in the river system of the Dnieper river of the same name Unecha.

Unecha is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

A small village Unecha on the eponymous river was 1672.

1887 was a station with associated settlement in connection with the railway construction. The station developed with the construction and opening of a new railway line in 1930 to a major hub.

On August 16, 1940, the city received city rights.

During World War II Unecha was occupied on August 17, 1941 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 23 September 1943 by troops of the Bryansk Front Red Army as part of the operation against Bryansk.

In the city the POW camp consisted of 327 German prisoners of war of World War II.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

The city has a Historical and Folk Museum.

Economy

In Unecha there is the electrical work Tembr, companies in the food and construction industries, railway workshops.

The city is located on the 1887 consistently opened railway Bryansk - Gomel - Brest ( Belarus ), a range of former Polessye Railways ( kilometer 139) here from 1931 through opened cross-connection between the routes from Moscow towards Belarus and Ukraine Orsha - Krytschau - Woroschba is crossed. The latter is now also because of the plenty of times crossing the Russian- Ukrainian border in parts out of service.

The highway M13 Bryansk - Belarusian border and continue on towards Brest Gomel leads south past Unecha.