Map of Morshansk in detail with streets, houses and districts

Morshansk

(Tambov Region)

OKATO code:
68420
Founded:
1623
City since:
1779 City of regional subordination
Center:
Morshansky district
Telephone code (reference phone)

Deviation from Moscow time, hours:
0
Geographic latitude:
53°27′
Geographic longitude:
41°48′
Altitude above sea level, meters:
110 Sunrise and sunset times of the Sun and Moon in the city of Morshansk

Population

Population as of January 1, 2022 was: 38,230.

As of January 1, 2022, the city ranked 404th out of 1,115 cities in the Russian Federation in terms of population.

Map

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

a brief description of

Located in the northern part of the Oka-Don (Tambov) plain, on the banks of the river. Tsna (Oka basin), 90 km north of Tambov. Railway station.

Territory (sq. km): 19

Information about the city of Morshansk on the Russian Wikipedia website

Historical sketch

It was first mentioned in 1623 as the village of Morsha, which belonged to the Ryazan bishops. The etymology is unclear. Isolating the element -sha and classifying the name as Finno-Ugric is unconvincing. There is a possible connection with the Russian anthroponym Morsha (Kazan, 16th century); compare with oikonyms: Morsha (Samara region), Morshin (Lviv region), Morshikha (Kurgan region).

Mordovian population of Morsha in the 17th century. adopted Christianity and assimilated by Russian settlers.

In the second half of the 17th - 18th centuries. a large trading village in the place where Tsna became navigable. Every summer, up to 50 thousand horses were driven through Morshansk from the southern steppes; bread, honey, fish, and furs were exported from the basins of the Vorona, Khoper and Medveditsa rivers. In the 18th century linen, rope, cloth, paper, and distillery factories operated here. Up to 25 thousand arshins of Morshan sailing cloth were exported annually.

In 1764, the village of Morsha came under the jurisdiction of the palace department. Since 1779, the district town of Morshansk of the Tambov governorship (since 1796 - Tambov province).

In 1856, in the district town of Morshansk, Tambov province, there were 8 churches, 1041 houses, 239 shops.

Until the mid-1870s. Morshansk is the largest commercial and industrial center of the Tambov province. The construction of the Ryazansko-Kozlovskaya railway, which bypassed Morshansk, sharply reduced the trade importance of the city.

In the 1880-90s. Large cloth and tobacco factories appeared in Morshansk.

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

JSC "Morshanskaya Manufactory" (worsted-cloth), chemical engineering plants "Morshanskkhimmash", auto repair, foundry-mechanical, 2 sewing factories.

Food industry enterprises, meat and poultry processing plants, butter factories and breweries, tobacco factories and other enterprises.

In the Morshansky district, grains, leguminous crops, and potatoes are grown. Meat and dairy cattle breeding.

The Novotomnikovsky stud farm (one of the oldest in Russia) is active and breeds Oryol trotters.

Main enterprises

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

JSC "Morshanskhimmash"
393920, Tambov region, Morshansk, st.
Green, 4 Offers:
Technological equipment for chemical and other industries

TEXTILE INDUSTRY

JSC "Morshanskaya Manufactory"
393920, Tambov region, Morshansk, st.
Rechnaya, 1 Offers:
woolen fabrics, acid-resistant and fire-resistant cloth, jacquard blankets, shoe flannel

Culture, science, education

Faculty of Tambov Institute of Chemical Engineering.

Museum of Local Lore.

Morshansk is the birthplace of the sculptor E.A. Lansere, astronomer A.A. Mikhailova (director of the Pulkovo Observatory in 1947-64).

Museums, galleries, exhibition halls

Morshansky Museum of Local Lore 393950, Tambov region, Morshansk, st. Sovetskaya, 25 Phone(s): (47533) 3-3662 Website: https://museum.morshansk.ru/

Architecture, sights

The first general plan of the city was approved in 1785. After the devastating fire of 1875, the center was built up mainly with stone buildings. Trinity Cathedral (1836-57, almost an exact copy of the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, built in St. Petersburg according to the design of the architect V.P. Stasov).

Near Morshansk, in the village of Novotomnikovo, the former estate of the Vorontsov-Dashkovs (18-19 centuries) has been preserved. The Novotomnikovsky stud farm operates (one of the oldest in Russia, breeding Oryol trotters).

Content

• 1. History
• 2Population
• 3Economy 3.1Industry
• 3.2Trade
• 3.3Hotels

Education

General education

• Secondary school No. 1 (with in-depth study of individual subjects)
• Secondary school No. 2 named after Hero of the Soviet Union N. I. Boreev
• Secondary school No. 3
• Municipal budgetary educational institution "Gymnasium"
• Municipal budgetary educational institution Sokolnikovskaya secondary school

Preschool education

There are 13 preschool educational institutions in Morshansk.

Additional education

• Children's and youth sports school
• Center for additional education for children
• Children's health and educational camp "Sputnik"
• Children's health and educational camp "Aquarelle"

Secondary vocational and higher education

• TOGPBOU SPO "Diversified College"
• Russian New University, Morshansky branch
• Institute of Correspondence Studies TSTU

Sacco and Vanzetti Street - Magistralnaya

We are entering the operational space. In the center of the photo is a monument to the fallen policemen, across the road is the gray corner 2-story police building where my father was kept in the monkey barn after the fire at the cathedral, and between them is the street named after Sacco and Vazzetti.

The intersection of Sovetskaya Street (straight) and Sacco and Vanzetti Street

For those who don’t know, Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are two anarchists of Italian origin who were executed by electric chair in the United States on August 23, 1927 for the murder of a cashier and two shoe factory guards.

"Heroes" of yesterday. Sacco and Vanzetti.

There was a worldwide buzz around this. In the USSR they were appointed heroes and fighters for the cause of the working class. Got it, well done! The poor themselves took money from the rich. This is where our revolutionaries started.

Previously, this street was called Sadovaya and was the border between the city and the suburb - Dubinevka. A protective rampart with a moat ran along it, which later became a city garbage dump.

There is always busy traffic here - this is the federal highway Tambov - Ryazan.

View of Sacco and Vanzetti streets towards Lenin, Shatsk and Ryazan streets.

Economy

Industry

• Food OJSC "Morshansky Brewing Plant", CJSC Maslodelny, OJSC "Gorpishchekombinat "Morshansky". RUSSIAN FEED COMPANY LLC. Morshansky Meat Processing Plant"
• Tobacco OJSC "Morshansk Tobacco Factory"
• Chemical engineering LLC "Morshanskhimmash Plant" (the plant specializes in the manufacture of equipment for the oil and gas industry, petrochemical and chemical industries, nuclear and classical energy, aviation and space industries).
• Cloth LLC "Morshanskaya Manufactory"
• Railway transport Morshansk locomotive depot
• Construction materials Morshansk metal products

Trade

The development of modern trade in the city does not stand still. During this time, the largest supermarkets and shops in Morshansk, both local and federal, were opened. At the moment, the main federal electronics networks operate in the city, such as DNS, RET, Euroset, Svyaznoy, Yulmart, etc. In the food sector, large grocery hypermarkets and Magnit supermarkets operate for the benefit of the city residents ", "Ogonyok", "Behemoth", "Pyaterochka" and others.

The Morshansky City Market also operates.

Hotels

• Hotel "Tsna"
• Hotel complex "Chistye Prudy"

Attractions

• Trinity Cathedral is the main architectural landmark of Morshansk. The cathedral building can be seen tens of kilometers from the city. The history of the temple begins in 1830, when a site for construction on the banks of the Tsna River was chosen and the project was approved.
• The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the only Old Believer church in the Tambov region. Construction of the church began in 1913 according to the design of the provincial engineer I. A. Vagakov (built in 1914). The construction was financed by the wife of the richest Morsha merchant A. A. Smesova, Maria Ivanovna. The first service took place on November 29, 1914. The church was used for its intended purpose for only 15 years (then it was closed). In the 60s of the 20th century, the church was turned into a grocery store. On December 12, 1990, a decision was made to transfer the building to the balance of the culture department of the executive committee of the Morshansky District Council of People's Deputies. In August 2014, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was transferred to the local community of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church.
• Morshansky Historical and Art Museum, on April 13, 1918, at a meeting of the district executive committee, a resolution was adopted on the creation of the Morshansky Museum. Its founder and first leader was the wonderful archaeologist and artist P. P. Ivanov. The museum houses the second largest and highest quality collection of ancient Russian wooden sculpture in Russia; it includes more than 70 works of the 17th-18th centuries.
• Central city library building (former bank)
• St. Nicholas Church - the first mention of the temple dates back to 1736. The last construction of the new St. Nicholas Church, according to available archival documents, can be dated back to 1848. In the 1930s, St. Nicholas Church became a place of prayer for monks, priests and their families from ruined monasteries and churches. There are three thrones: the main one in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the side altars in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the supreme apostles Peter and Paul.
• State Bank building (former house of the Platitsyn merchants)
• Center for Children and Youth Creativity (former house of merchant I.P. Popov)
• Civil Registry Office building (former house of the Fontalov merchants)

• Trinity Cathedral
• Trinity Cathedral, view from the outskirts of the city
• Former shopping arcades
• Assumption Church
• St. Nicholas Church
• Central City Library (former bank)
• MARRIAGE REGISTRY

4. Sovetskaya Street - Impassable

I continue moving along Sovetskaya. On the right is the first attraction: the 3-story Police building, to the right is the previously mentioned old 2-story police building. Comments, in my opinion, are unnecessary.

POLICE

Nothing has changed in 60 years. There is virtually no sidewalk. A continuous long puddle. There is nothing to do here without boots.

Sovetskaya Street

Choosing where it is drier, and in some places out of despair, going out onto the roadway, we walk forward in the direction of the Oktyabr cinema and the Central Collective Farm Market.

Religion

Russian Orthodox Church

• Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity (Trinity Cathedral)
• St. Nicholas Church
• Chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

Destroyed temples

• St. Sophia Cathedral - erected in 1753 by merchants Peter and Fyodor Kopeikin;
• Ascension Church - built in 1799 at the expense of the merchant Alexei Tyulyukin;
• Nikolaevskaya (Barashevskaya) stone church - built in 1840 by merchant Georgy Platitsyn instead of the old wooden one, opened in 1804;
• Chapel of the Kazan Mother of God.

Two non-parish churches were located at the city cemeteries:

• Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Nikolaevskaya), operating since 1797;
• Temple in the name of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, 1789-1939.

Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church

• Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Evangelical Christian Baptists

• Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists

Presbyterianism

• Christian Presbyterian Church "Transfiguration"