Unecha is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Unecha district of the Bryansk region. Population - 24,274 people. (2021) (fifth largest city in the region). Large railway junction.
Monument to fellow countrymen who died in the wars of the 20th
century;
Holy Annunciation Church;
Assumption Church.
Park
named after Ural volunteers
Park named after 1st of May
Unecha
Museum of Local Lore
Art Gallery
Monument to the 100th anniversary
of the founding of the Unecha railway station
Memorial complex
Sorrowful Mother
The railway station connects the city with Klintsy, Surazh,
Novozybkov, Starodub.
From the bus station, buses depart to
Moscow, Bryansk, Surazh, Starodub, Pochep, Novozybkov.
The city is located in the upper reaches of the Unecha River (a tributary of the Iput, Dnieper basin), 140 km southwest of Bryansk.
The prevailing climate is moderate continental. The average annual precipitation is 535 mm.
The settlement was formed in 1887 after the construction of the
Unecha railway station on the Bryansk-Gomel line in the Mglinsky
district of the Chernigov province.
In January 1883, Minister of
War Pyotr Vannovsky announced the need to build strategic railways
through Polesie. Members of the Special Meeting ordered the Minister of
Railways K.N. Posyet to take all measures to ensure the timely
completion, no later than three years, of the construction of the
Polesie railways. The sites were put into operation as soon as they were
ready. In 1885, construction began on the sixth section of the Polesie
railway from Gomel to Bryansk. On August 8, 1887, the section connecting
Bryansk and Gomel and having a third-class intermediate station “Unecha”
was opened.
In June 1899, by decree of Emperor Nicholas II,
adjacent lands were alienated for the development of tracks and the
construction of warehouses at the Unecha station. On May 10, 1903,
Unecha legally entered the Pale of Settlement for the Jewish people. In
1914, the urban-type settlement had 197 households and 2,200 residents.
After the October Revolution, the establishment of Soviet power in a
large territory of Polesie and the Chernigov region was carried out by
the Polesie Committee of the RSDLP (b), located in Gomel. In January
1919, the question was raised about transferring the provincial center
from Chernigov to Gomel. In April 1919, four northern districts (with
the exception of several southern volosts), among which was Mglinsky
district, were transferred to the newly created Gomel province of the
RSFSR.
In December 1926, the Gomel province was disbanded,
Unecha, as part of the Klintsovsky district, was included in the Bryansk
province of the RSFSR.
After the construction of the
Kharkov-Orsha line in 1929, Unecha became a major railway junction and
began to develop intensively. In 1940, Unecha received the status of a
city of regional subordination.
From 1936 to 1951, the Unecha
station was subordinate to the Belarusian Railway; the Office of the
Unecha traffic department of the Belarusian Railway was located here.
From September 1943 to March 1944, the Office of the Belarusian Railway
was located in the city.
During the Great Patriotic War, the city
was occupied by German troops. Liberated during the Bryansk operation on
September 23, 1943 by the forces of the Bryansk Front.
In the city there is the Unecha locomotive depot, a carriage depot,
the Timbr plant, the Unecha restaurant, the Elektron sports complex, the
May 1st club, the Center for Continuing Education, the Technical
Education Center, JSC Tonus, JSC Wolfram Company “”, OJSC “Resistor”,
Unechsky Mechanical Plant, central district hospital. There are five
schools in the city. There is an intracity bus service. The Unecha relay
station provides television and radio broadcasting to the entire western
part of the Bryansk region.
As of 2007, the city had a Children's
Creativity Center, two vocational schools, and a branch of the Moscow
State Technological Academy.
90.9 Radio Vanya
100.7 Traffic radio
103.2 Radio Dacha
105.7
Autoradio
106.6 Radio Russia / GTRK Bryansk