Vesyegonsk

Wessjegonsk (Russian Весьегонск ) is a town in Tver Oblast ( Russia) ( October 14, 2010 status ) with 7329 inhabitants.

Geography

The city is located in the Mologaniederung about 250 kilometers northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Tver on the right bank of the Mologa, a left tributary of the Volga, together with which it is dammed to Rybinsk Reservoir.

Wessjegonsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

1524 for the first time a village called Wes Jegonskaja was documented in field Beschezki Verch. Wes ( весь ) is an old Russian word for a village or small settlement; So here riverside village Jegna. Later the place Wessjegonskoje was called, belonged to 1764 the Moscow Simeon Monastery ( Simonowski monastyr ) and was an important regional commercial and crafts center, which was known for its fairs until the 19th century.

1776 a city charter was granted. Towards the end of the 19th century, the city lost with the decline of the Tikhvin canal system between the Volga and Saint Petersburg früherere its importance.

For installation of the Rybinsk Reservoir in 1939 parts of the city were flooded. The non- flooded part was given the status of an urban-type settlement. In 1953, the city charter was granted again.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

From the previous variety of Wessjegonsker churches remain after the flooding of the city center by the Rybinsk Reservoir only the higher Church of Our Lady of Kazan ( short Kazan Church; Russian Казанская церковь / Kazanskaya Tserkov ) of 1811, Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov ) of 1868, Church of St John the Baptist ( церковь Иоанна Предтечи / Tserkov Ioanna Predtechi ) obtained from 1903.

The city has a museum of local history.

Economy and infrastructure

In Wessjegonsk there are companies in the woodworking, textile and food industries, as well as a machine factory.

The city is the endpoint is from 1899 to 1926 built a railroad from Moscow on Sawjolowo ( kilometer 375 ).

Personalities

  • Pawel Korowkin (1913-1985), mathematician, was born in Wessjegonsk
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