Sosensky, Kaluga region, Russia

Physiographic characteristics

The city is located in the east of the Kozelsky region, within the Central Russian Upland, which is part of the East European Plain, at an altitude of 220 m above sea level. The terrain is flat. The village is surrounded on all sides by forests. Within the city's borders, streams originate and flow into the Pesochnaya River (a tributary of the Zhizdra)[4].

By road, the distance to the administrative center of the Kaluga region, the city of Kaluga, is 81 km, to the regional center of the city of Kozelsk - 13 km, to the nearest railway station Shepelevo - 5 km[5].

According to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification, the city is located in the humid continental climate zone with moderately cold winters and cool summers (Dfb). The average annual precipitation is 635 mm, the average annual air temperature is 4.8 C[6].

In the city, as well as throughout the Kaluga region, Moscow time operates.

Excerpt characterizing Sosensky

Anna Mikhailovna, who had been visiting the Rostovs less often lately, also behaved with particular dignity, and every time she spoke enthusiastically and gratefully about the merits of her son and about the brilliant career he was on. When the Rostovs arrived in St. Petersburg, Boris came to visit them. He went to them not without excitement. The memory of Natasha was Boris's most poetic memory. But at the same time, he traveled with the firm intention of making it clear to both her and her family that the childhood relationship between him and Natasha could not be an obligation for either her or him. He had a brilliant position in society, thanks to his intimacy with Countess Bezukhova, a brilliant position in the service, thanks to the patronage of an important person, whose trust he fully enjoyed, and he had nascent plans to marry one of the richest brides in St. Petersburg, which could very easily come true . When Boris entered the Rostovs' living room, Natasha was in her room. Having learned about his arrival, she, flushed, almost ran into the living room, beaming with a more than affectionate smile. Boris remembered that Natasha in a short dress, with black eyes shining from under her curls and with a desperate, childish laugh, whom he knew 4 years ago, and therefore, when a completely different Natasha entered, he was embarrassed, and his face expressed enthusiastic surprise. This expression on his face delighted Natasha. - So, do you recognize your little friend as a naughty girl? - said the countess. Boris kissed Natasha's hand and said that he was surprised by the change that had taken place in her. - How prettier you have become! “Of course!” answered Natasha’s laughing eyes. - Has dad gotten older? – she asked. Natasha sat down and, without entering into Boris’s conversation with the countess, silently examined her childhood fiancé down to the smallest detail. He felt the weight of this persistent, affectionate gaze on himself and occasionally glanced at her. The uniform, the spurs, the tie, Boris’s hairstyle, all this was the most fashionable and comme il faut [quite decent]. Natasha noticed this now. He sat slightly sideways on the armchair next to the countess, straightening the clean, stained glove on his left with his right hand, spoke with a special, refined pursing of his lips about the amusements of the highest St. Petersburg society and with gentle mockery recalled the old Moscow times and Moscow acquaintances. It was not by chance, as Natasha felt, that he mentioned, naming the highest aristocracy, about the envoy's ball, which he had attended, about the invitations to NN and SS. Natasha sat silently the whole time, looking at him from under her brows. This look bothered and embarrassed Boris more and more. He looked back at Natasha more often and paused in his stories. He sat for no more than 10 minutes and stood up, bowing. The same curious, defiant and somewhat mocking eyes looked at him. After his first visit, Boris told himself that Natasha was just as attractive to him as before, but that he should not give in to this feeling, because marrying her, a girl with almost no fortune, would be the ruin of his career, and resuming a previous relationship without the goal of marriage would be an ignoble act. Boris decided with himself to avoid meeting with Natasha, but, despite this decision, he arrived a few days later and began to travel often and spend whole days with the Rostovs. It seemed to him that he needed to explain himself to Natasha, to tell her that everything old should be forgotten, that, despite everything... she could not be his wife, that he had no fortune, and she would never be given for him. But he still didn’t succeed and it was awkward to begin this explanation. Every day he became more and more confused. Natasha, as her mother and Sonya noted, seemed to be in love with Boris as before. She sang him his favorite songs, showed him her album, forced him to write in it, did not allow him to remember the old, making him understand how wonderful the new was; and every day he left in a fog, without saying what he intended to say, not knowing what he was doing and why he had come, and how it would end. Boris stopped visiting Helen, received reproachful notes from her every day, and still spent whole days with the Rostovs. One evening, when the old countess, sighing and groaning, in a nightcap and blouse, without false curls, and with one poor tuft of hair protruding from under a white calico cap, was making prostrations for evening prayer on the rug, her door creaked, and Natasha ran in, shoes on her bare feet, also in a blouse and curlers. The Countess looked around and frowned. She finished reading her last prayer: “Will this coffin be my bed?” Her prayerful mood was destroyed. Natasha, red and animated, seeing her mother at prayer, suddenly stopped in her run, sat down and involuntarily stuck out her tongue, threatening herself. Noticing that her mother continued her prayer, she ran on tiptoe to the bed, quickly sliding one small foot over the other, kicked off her shoes and jumped onto the bed for which the countess was afraid that it might not be her coffin. This bed was tall, made of feather beds, with five ever-decreasing pillows. Natasha jumped up, sank into the feather bed, rolled over to the wall and began fiddling around under the blanket, laying down, bending her knees to her chin, kicking her legs and laughing barely audibly, now covering her head, now looking at her mother. The Countess finished her prayer and approached the bed with a stern face; but, seeing that Natasha had her head covered, she smiled her kind, weak smile. “Well, well, well,” said the mother. - Mom, we can talk, right? - Natasha said. - Well, once in a while, well, it will happen again. “And she grabbed her mother’s neck and kissed her under the chin. In her treatment of her mother, Natasha showed an outward rudeness of manner, but she was so sensitive and dexterous that no matter how she clasped her mother in her arms, she always knew how to do it in such a way that her mother would not feel pain, discomfort, or embarrassment. - Well, what are we talking about today? - said the mother, settling down on the pillows and waiting until Natasha, having also rolled over herself a couple of times, lay down next to her under the same blanket, holding out her arms and taking on a serious expression. These nightly visits to Natasha, which took place before the count returned from the club, were one of the favorite pleasures of mother and daughter. - What are we talking about today? And I need to tell you... Natasha covered her mother’s mouth with her hand. “About Boris... I know,” she said seriously, “that’s why I came.” Don't tell me, I know. No, tell me! – She let go of her hand. - Tell me, mom. Is he nice? – Natasha, you are 16 years old, I was married at your age. You say that Borya is nice. He is very sweet and I love him like a son, but what do you want?... What do you think? You have completely turned his head, I can see that... Saying this, the countess looked back at her daughter. Natasha lay straight and motionless looking ahead at one of the mahogany sphinxes carved on the corners of the bed, so that the countess only saw her daughter’s face in profile. This face struck the countess with its peculiarity of serious and concentrated expression. Natasha listened and thought. - Well, what then? - she said. – You completely turned his head, why? What do you want from him? You know you can't marry him. - From what? – Natasha said without changing her position. “Because he’s young, because he’s poor, because he’s related... because you don’t love him yourself.” - Why do you know? - I know. This is not good, my friend. “And if I want...” said Natasha.

Notes

1. ↑ 123
   www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2016/bul_dr/mun_obr2016.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2016
2. Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 29, 2014 No. 1398-r “On approval of the list of single-industry towns”
3. ↑ 1234
   [sosensky-adm.ru/istoriya-sosenskogo/ History of Sosensky]
4. [www.etomesto.ru/map-kaluga_topo/?z=1&x=35.963202908523&y=54.057597349988 Topographic map of the Kaluga region]
5. Distances between settlements are given using the Yandex.Maps service.
6. [ru.climate-data.org/location/50977/ Climate: Sosensky - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table - Climate-Data.org]
7. [demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus59_reg2.php All-Union Population Census of 1959. The size of the urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender] (Russian). Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved September 25, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6GDOghWC9 Archived from the original on April 28, 2013].
8. [demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus70_reg2.php All-Union Population Census of 1970 The size of the urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender.] (Russian). Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved September 25, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6GDOiMstp Archived from the original on April 28, 2013].
9. [demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus79_reg2.php All-Union Population Census of 1979 The size of the urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender.] (Russian). Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved September 25, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6GDOjhZ5L Archived from the original on April 28, 2013].
10. [demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus89_reg2.php All-Union Population Census of 1989. Urban population]. [www.webcitation.org/617x0o0Pa Archived from the original on August 22, 2011].
11. ↑ 123456
    www.MojGorod.ru/kaluzhsk_obl/sosenskij/index.html People's encyclopedia “My City”. Sosensky
12. [www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls All-Russian Population Census 2002. Volume. 1, table 4. Population of Russia, federal districts, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, districts, urban settlements, rural settlements - regional centers and rural settlements with a population of 3 thousand or more]. [www.webcitation.org/65AdCU0q3 Archived from the original on February 3, 2012].
13. [www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/B09_109/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d01/tabl-21-09.xls Number of permanent population of the Russian Federation by cities, urban-type settlements and districts as of January 1, 2009]. Retrieved January 2, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6MJmu0z1u Archived from the original on January 2, 2014].
14. [kalugastat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/kalugastat/resources/43355b804c49726b93a9bf052efb10e3/collection_numbers.doc All-Russian population census 2010. Number and distribution of the population of the Kaluga region (volume 1)]. Retrieved January 30, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6N0plt79D Archived from the original on January 30, 2014].
15. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2012/bul_dr/mun_obr2012.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities. Table 35. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2012]. Retrieved May 31, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6PyOWbdMc Archived from the original on May 31, 2014].
16. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2013/bul_dr/mun_obr2013.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2013. - M.: Federal State Statistics Service Rosstat, 2013. - 528 p. (Table 33. Population of urban districts, municipal districts, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements)]. Retrieved November 16, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6LAdCWSxH Archived from the original on November 16, 2013].
17. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2014/bul_dr/mun_obr2014.rar Table 33. Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2014]. Retrieved August 2, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6RWqP50QK Archived from the original on August 2, 2014].
18. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2015/bul_dr/mun_obr2015.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2015]. Retrieved August 6, 2015. [www.webcitation.org/6aaNzOlFO Archived from the original on August 6, 2015].
19. taking into account the cities of Crimea
20. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2016/bul_dr/mun_obr2016.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2016. Table “31. Population of cities and towns by federal districts and constituent entities of the Russian Federation as of January 1, 2016.” RAR archive (1.0 MB)]
21. [www.spzavod.ru/ BRANCH OF THE FSUE “RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION CENTER FOR AUTOMATION AND INSTRUMENT ENGINEERING named after Academician N.A. PILYUGIN" - "SOSENSKY INSTRUMENT MAKING PLANT"]. www.spzavod.ru. Retrieved July 18, 2016.

Economy

• [21] Branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Research and Production Center for Automation and Instrumentation named after Academician N.A. Pilyugin” - “Sosensky Instrument-Making Plant” whose main activity is the production of parts and blanks from metal alloys produced by precision casting using lost wax models.
• CJSC "Stroydetal" - building materials plant
• CJSC Soyuzspetsosnaschenie is an enterprise for the development and sale of special equipment, workwear, special vehicles, etc. for various services
• JSC "REKAST" - an enterprise for the production of honeycomb core

• Sosenskaya Secondary School No. 1
• Sosensky Radio Engineering College
• Sosenskaya Secondary School No. 2
• Sosensky children's music school
• Sosenskaya boarding school
• Children's rehabilitation
• Youth and Youth Sports School