Unecha: Why is the city called sunny? And what experiments in agriculture are the locals conducting?

Unecha

(Bryansk region)

OKATO code:
15258501
Founded:
1887
Urban settlement since:
1927
City since:
1940 City of district subordination (Unechsky district of the Bryansk region)
Center:
Unechsky district
Telephone code (reference phone)

Deviation from Moscow time, hours:
0
Geographic latitude:
52°51′
Geographic longitude:
32°41′
Altitude above sea level, meters:
180 Sunrise and sunset times in the city of Unecha

Unecha on the map of Russia

You can find Unecha on the map and get directions using your navigator using the coordinates (52.845115, 32.670676). In the north is the city of Surazh, in the northeast is Bryansk. In the east - Pochep, in the southeast - Trubchevsk, in the south - Starodub, in the southwest - the village of Klimovo and to the south - Novozybkov, in the west - Klintsy.

Map

Unecha: photo from space (Google Maps) Unecha: photo from space (Microsoft Virtual Earth)

a brief description of

The city is located in the upper reaches of the river. Unecha (Dnieper basin), 140 km southwest of Bryansk. Railway node

Territory (sq. km): 15

Information about the city of Unecha on the Russian Wikipedia website

Historical sketch

In 1672, the Unecha farmstead appeared on the river. Unecha. Hydronym from the Old Russian root un, modern young, i.e. “young river” (as opposed to old river, old man, old woman, old woman).

It emerged in 1887 as a station on the Polesie Railway. After the construction of the Kharkov-Orsha line in 1929, Unecha became a significant railway junction.

PGT since October 24, 1927 City since 1940

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, it was occupied by Nazi troops on August 17, 1941. It was liberated on September 23, 1943 by troops of the Bryansk Front during the Bryansk operation.

Municipal indicators

Data sources:

1. Regions of Russia. Main characteristics of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation: statistical collection. Goskomstat of Russia. - M:, 2003.

Economy

. Enterprises of railway transport (locomotive and carriage depots, etc.) and food industry (factories: vegetable drying, oil and milk powder, meat and poultry processing plants). Plant of reinforced concrete products.

Main enterprises

FOOD INDUSTRY

OJSC "Unecha Vegetable Drying Plant"
243200, Bryansk region, Unecha district, Unecha, st.
Krupskaya, 22 Offers:
Canned vegetables, dried vegetables and potatoes, minced meat

Culture, science, education

Monument to active participant in the Civil War N.A. Shchorsu (formed the Bohunsky regiment of his division in Unecha).

Museums, galleries, exhibition halls

Unecha Art Gallery of the Bryansk Region 243300, Bryansk Region, Unecha District, Unecha, st.
Lunacharskogo, 5-A Unecha branch of the Bryansk State Museum of Local Lore 243300, Bryansk region, Unecha district, Unecha, st. Oktyabrskaya, 14 Phone(s): (48351) 2-12-38

Unecha, Bryansk region

The building of the railway station in the city of Unecha (2008) © Nikolay Korzhov / Photobank Lori

Location. Unecha stands in the upper reaches of the river of the same name, a tributary of the Iput River, approximately 120 kilometers southwest of Bryansk (about 140 kilometers by road).

Briefly about the city. The founding date is considered to be 1887, when the Unecha station was built on the Bryansk-Gomel railway line of the Polesie Railway. Then warehouses began to be built at the station, and this is how a village was formed. It is this version that is considered official, although there is another: that the station was named after a village that already existed nearby. Indeed, the earliest mention of a settlement with this name dates back to 1770, and it cannot be unequivocally stated that a different area and a different settlement were meant.

By 1914, Unecha, located near the railway, was an urban-type settlement; About 2,200 people lived there. Due to the abundance of forests around, a sawmill and a chip factory were actively operating in Unecha, and timber from Unecha was supplied to different parts of Russia and even abroad. The village began to grow especially rapidly after 1929, when the railway from Kharkov to Orsha was built, and Unecha became a major railway junction. Uneche city status was awarded in 1940.

During the Great Patriotic War, Unecha was heavily destroyed; it was rebuilt in the post-war years. It is the fifth largest city in the Bryansk region. Currently, just over 23 thousand people live in Unecha (data as of January 2019).

Monument to the soldiers liberators in the city of Unecha, Bryansk region. Russia © Azat Khairutdinov / Photobank Lori

Authorities. The Unecha city administration was liquidated in 2022, since then Unecha has been part of the Unecha municipal district. The head of the district and chairman of the district Council of People's Deputies is Maxim Shatoba, and the responsibilities of the head of the district administration are assigned to Anatoly Kuskov, who previously served as head of the administration. Kuskov will remain acting until the election of a new head of administration and the entry into office of the winner.

Economy. There are several operating in the city, formed on the basis of a radio factory and producing household appliances; refractory metals plant "Tungsten"; mechanical plant) and a number of other enterprises - for example, Unechsky meat and poultry plant, Unechsky bakery plant; creamery The locomotive and carriage depot plays a special role, since Unecha remains a major railway junction. Intracity bus service has been developed. The Unecha relay station provides television and radio broadcasting in the west of the entire Bryansk region. In 1995-98, mineral waters were discovered in Unecha. Currently, there are two artesian mineral water wells in the city.

Attractions. Unecha is called a “sunny city” and a “park city” due to the abundance of greenery and flower beds in the parks. The recreation park near the House of Culture named after May 1 is especially popular among residents and guests of Unecha. The city has a local history museum with several exhibitions, and an art gallery displaying works by local artists and guests of international plein airs that have been taking place in Unecha for more than 15 years. In 1995, on the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, a monument to the fallen was opened in Unecha.

Among the architectural monuments in the city, the former water pumping station and the railway station building have been preserved. The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which also looks like an architectural monument of the 19th century, was in fact destroyed during the war and was restored only in 1998 using public funds. True, in the Unechensky district, the Assumption Church, built in 1825 with the money of Count Yakov Chernolussky in memory of the Patriotic War of 1812, survived.

In general, tourists are attracted mainly by the beauty of nature around the city and clean air. Views of the surrounding lakes are depicted on the canvases of many artists. The Bryansk Ostrich agricultural farm, which exists in the Unecha region, is also famous in its own way, where ostriches are actually bred.

Famous people. Vladimir Bazan, Belarusian photojournalist; Alexander Kalyanov, Soviet and Russian sound engineer, actor, singer, composer, three-time winner of the Chanson of the Year award; Alexander Putsko, Russian football player, defender of the Ufa club; Dmitry Sannikov, Russian football player, midfielder; Vladimir Stratanovich, Soviet and Russian historian, orientalist; Pavel Yakubovich, Belarusian journalist, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Soviet Belarus”.

Feedback from a citizen. The city is quiet, green, there are places to relax, including with children. But we have mostly well-maintained parks and playgrounds, but the roads are very bad and the streets are so-so. It’s not easy to get a job, the salaries are low. Well at least the prices are not very high.

Unecha is my station

Alexander Kazarinov

Unecha is my station, My only harbor, The gateway to the fatherland, The carving of shutters familiar from childhood.

My town among the forests, Like in old times, haunted by the whistles of trains hurrying into summer, Where we sculpted ourselves.

The path to Grishkin Hills Now leads the “young tribe”, My stadium, where outside the game, fortunately, time will not overtake us...

Elections of the President of the Russian Federation. In the Russian presidential elections in March 2022 in the Bryansk region, 636,087 people (81.6% of voters in the region) voted for Vladimir Putin. For Pavel Grudinin (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) - 8.77% (68,375 people), for Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR) - 5.64% (43,940 people). Ksenia Sobchak (Civil Initiative), Boris Titov (Growth Party), Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko), Maxim Suraikin (Communists of Russia) and Sergei Baburin (Russian National Union) received less than 1% of the votes.

In the Unechi municipal district, the results were somewhat different - they voted more actively for the Communists and Liberal Democrats than on average in the region. As a result, Putin received 75.6% of the votes (16,730 people supported him), Grudinin - 12.83% (2,839 people), Zhirinovsky - 7.12% (1,575 people). The remaining presidential candidates received less than 1% of the votes in the elections.

Governor elections . Elections for the governor of the Bryansk region were held on September 13, 2015. They included Alexander Bogomaz, who had been appointed acting governor of the region since September 2014 and nominated for elections by United Russia; Mikhail Ivako (nominated by Patriots of Russia) and Sergey Kurdenko (nominated by A Just Russia). As a result, Bogomaz received 79.96% of the regional votes (this amounted to 469,386 people), Mikhail Ivako - 9.61% (56,428 people), Sergei Kurdenko - 7.91% (46,455 people). At the same time, in Unecha, Alexander Bogomaz received 79.01% of the votes (14,324 people voted for him), Mikhail Ivako - 8.65% (1,568 people supported the candidate), Sergei Kurdenko -6.86% (1,244 people).

Local elections. On October 4, 2022, Maxim Shatoba was elected head of the Council of People's Deputies of the Unechsky Municipal District and head of the district on a permanent basis. 20 out of 22 deputies present at the meeting voted for him. At the same meeting, deputies confirmed the termination of the powers of the head of the administration Anatoly Kuskov (due to the expiration of the contract) and appointed him acting head of the administration.

Latest Yandex news

Official website of the newspaper "Unechskaya Gazeta"

October 16

The preventive month “Dry Grass” started in the Unechi district

Information portal “Zhukovskie news”

October 15

A regional Duma deputy from United Russia donated 11 tons of potatoes to Unechi kindergartens

Information agency "REGNUM"

October 14

Seven virtual concert halls will be created in the Bryansk region