Klintsy is located in the Bryansk region of
Russia. KAZ truck cranes thT are produced here are one of the best
truck cranes in Russia. The population of the city is 62 832 people.
(2017), with suburbs - 70,164 people. (2017) (the second most
populated city of the Bryansk region). The city is the trade and
economic center of the south-west of the Bryansk region.
Klintsy is located on the Moskovka River (Turosne Kartavoy), a
tributary of the Turoshny River in the Dnieper basin, 172 kilometers
west of Bryansk, 5 km from the M13 highway Bryansk - Novozybkov -
border of the Republic of Belarus. The city is located the
eponymous railway station of the Moscow Railway (on the line Bryansk
- Gomel).
FOK "Solnechny" or "Sunny"
"Fountain of lovers",
Monument
to the founders of the city of Klintsy,
The building of the
former Town Hall (end of the XVIII century),
The building of the
former factory DS Cherkassky (Cherkasov), later a male gymnasium,
later the City Duma (XIX century),
The building of the former
female gymnasium (beginning of the 20th century),
The building of
the former gymnasium (the beginning of the XX century),
The
building of the former school named after Korolenko (the beginning
of the 20th century, now it has a military registration and
enlistment office),
Temple of the Transfiguration of the Savior
(early XIX century),
The house of the manufacturer Baryshnikov
(end of the XIX century),
House manufacturer Sapozhkov (early XX
century.),
Merchant assembly building (beginning of the 20th
century),
Shopping malls (“Moscow” grocery store) (beginning of
the 20th century),
The building of the former church of the
Nikolo-Pustynsky monastery (the beginning of the 20th century),
Schmeleng House (XIX century),
Old trade rows (beginning of the
20th century),
The building of the Almshouse (beginning of the
19th century),
The building of the House of Soviets, designed by
architect A.Z. Greenberg (1927 - early 1930s),
Church of St.
Nicholas (chapel of the Ascension Church), beginning. Twentieth
century
Peter and Paul Church, designed by architect K. A. Ton
(1848),
Former Treasury building (XIX century),
Kaidanov House
(XIX century),
House of Notary Chikilevsky (the beginning of the
XX century),
Country house "Vyunki" manufacturer Sapozhkova
(beginning of XX century.) With a park (end of XIX century.)
The
building of the pre-revolutionary Jewish school (the end of the XIX
century, now in it the House of Children's Art).
By train
From Bryansk: train “Moscow - Gomel”, or train from other
cities
By car
From Bryansk: highway M13
Buses, train, taxi, minibus.
“FixPrice”, TSUM, Zara Zara, Dom Byta
Average cost
You can get good food of average cost at Chicken
Pizza - a cafe in TSUM
Expensive
Restaurant "THREE WHALES"
The city is beautiful at night. In winter, in the city center there are garlands on every tree, in the warm season there are two illuminated fountains, several schools and other institutions are decorated with lights. The city doesn't sleep all the time.
In the city there are communication shops “Euroset”, “MegaFon”, “MTS”, “Beeline”, “Svyaznoy”, “Tele2”
The city is located on the Moskovka River (Turosna Kartavay), a tributary of the Turosna River in the Dnieper Basin, 172 kilometers west of Bryansk and 550 kilometers southwest of Moscow, approximately at the same distance (about 60 km) from the state border of Russia with Belarus and Ukraine. The highway M13 Bryansk - Novozybkov - the border of the Republic of Belarus passes 5 km from the city.
A
temperate continental climate prevails. Winters are long and moderately
cold. Summer is warm and short.
The average annual rainfall is
530 mm.
Sloboda Klintsy was founded in 1707 by Old Believer peasants
(Epifanovshchina). The first to settle on the banks of the Turosna River
in 1707 was the peasant Vasily Afanasyevich Klintsov, who fled from the
Kostroma district. Following him, here, in the thicket of the forest,
several more Old Believers settled, hiding from persecution. Soon a
small settlement arose. She received the name of her founder.
In
1782, Klintsy became a settlement within the Surazh district. At the
same time, several printing houses were opened here, publishing mainly
Old Believer liturgical books. The development of printing contributed
to the high literacy of the population of Klintsy.
In 1782-1796,
Klintsy was part of the Novgorod-Seversky governorship, and in 1796-1802
- in the Little Russian province. Since February 27, 1802, the
settlement of Klintsy has been in the Chernigov province, Surazh
district.
Starting from the 1830s, textile production appeared in
Klintsy, which gradually became the most important industry of the city.
By the end of the 19th century, more than 90% of the textile industry of
Chernihiv region was concentrated here. The city of Klintsy was called
"Manchester of the Chernihiv province".
Electricity in Klintsy
first appeared at the factory of I.P. Mashkovsky in 1886. According to
the 1897 census, 12,166 inhabitants lived in the settlement, including
2,605 Jews.
In 1900, the settlement was electrified, there were
10 cloth factories, three hosiery establishments, 11 tanneries, two iron
foundries, one linen, one oil mill, two soap factories, three brick
factories; several branches of various banks, a post office, a telegraph
office, a pharmacy and an apothecary warehouse, three commission
offices, five churches: Voznesenskaya and Trinity Edinoverie, Peter and
Paul Orthodox, Pokrovo-Nikolskaya and Preobrazhenskaya Old Believers;
three synagogues. Outside the city there were two Old Believer
monasteries (the Krasnoborsky John the Baptist Monastery, or "Strip",
and the Nikolo-Pustynsky Monastery). In 1916, Klintsy began publishing
its own Klintsovskaya Gazeta. There was a railway station Klintsy.
In 1918, according to the Brest Treaty, the city was part of the
Ukrainian People's Republic, Chernihiv province, Surazh district. Since
July 11, 1919 - as part of the Gomel province of the RSFSR, Surazh
district. Since 1921, the settlement of Klintsy has become a district
center as part of the Gomel province.
In 1925, Klintsy received
the status of a city. In December 1926, the Klintsovsky district was
transferred from the disbanded Gomel province to the Bryansk province.
From January 14, 1929, the city of Klintsy was part of the Western
Region of the RSFSR, where it was the center of the Klintsovsky District
and the Klintsovsky District. Since 1936, Klintsy has been a city of
regional subordination. Since October 19, 1937, the city of Klintsy was
part of the Oryol region, and since July 5, 1944, it has been part of
the Bryansk region.
During World War II, the city was occupied by
Nazi troops from August 20, 1941 to September 25, 1943.
In 1986,
the territory of Klintsy and the Klintsovsky district suffered from
radioactive contamination as a result of the Chernobyl accident.
In the year of the tercentenary of the founding (2007), a monument in
the form of a bell depicting the family of the founder of the city was
erected at the supposed site of the settlement's birth.
Since
2016, a military base has been under construction in Klintsy.
The city is home to the Klintsovsky Truck Crane Plant (one of the
three largest Russian manufacturers of truck cranes, since 2008, in
addition to truck cranes, it has been producing crawler cranes), the
Klintsovsky Piston Ring Plant, a car repair plant, a sewing factory, a
knitwear factory, a building materials plant, a bicycle factory, the
Metrobeton plant, Rabbit soft toy joint venture, silicate factory,
cannery, Clivia shoe factory, twine factory (one of three in Russia),
Baltkom Uni LLC (production of dairy products). Since 1937, the
Klintsovskaya thermal power plant has been operating in the city.
The city-forming enterprises of modern Klintsy are the Klintsy
silicate plant and the Klintsy truck crane plant.
Educational institutions: Industrial-Pedagogical College,
Technological College, 1 gymnasium, 8 secondary schools.
The city
has a branch of the regional museum of local lore.
The local
football club "Klintsy" plays in the championship of the Bryansk region.
The basketball team of the city of Klintsy is a two-time champion of
the Bryansk region.
There are two Youth Sports Schools in the
city (“Luch” named after V. Fridzon and Youth Sports School named after
V. I. Shkurny), as well as art and music schools.
From 2019 to
2021, a festival for the restoration of the historical environment "Tom
Sawyer Fest" was held in Klintsy.
Since 2019, the literary
association "People of Spring" has been operating in the city.
Since December 2020, the Chronoscope historical research project has
been launched in Klintsy, the purpose of which was to study and
popularize the history of the city.
The city has a railway station of the same name of the Moscow Railway
(on the Bryansk-Gomel line).
From the bus station of the city,
buses run to Moscow, Gomel, Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, Novozybkov,
Smolevichi, Starodub, Gordeevka, Krasnaya Gora.
87.5 Klintsy FM
89.0 Radio Record
104.5 Russian radio
Also
in Klintsy you can receive radio stations broadcasting from neighboring
Unecha.
Currently, the correctional colony No. 6 of the Federal Penitentiary
Service of Russia in the Bryansk region operates in the city. The
institution was located along 2nd Parkovaya Street at the entrance to
the village of May Day.
In 1961, the former director of the brick
factory, I. Z. Uritsky, was approved as the first head of the colony. It
was then that brick factory No. 2 was transferred to the structures of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR. Colony No. 6 was created
on the basis of the enterprise. Ten years later, the production
facilities of the colony began to produce 14 percent of the bricks
produced by the entire Bryansk region. Furniture was also made on site.
At present, brick kilns do not operate, and woodworking production
is developing in the institution, products from metal structures are
produced.
The main types of production activities: the production
of wooden containers, the production of furniture on a metal frame,
woodworking products, bread baking, clothing production, sawmilling,
production of bus stop pavilions.