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The city of Velikiye Luki is located in the Pskov region. This is one of the ancient Russian cities, founded is 1166. The city, with a population of about 100 thousand people, currently ranks second in the region in terms of population. During the war, the Velikiye Luki was almost completely destroyed. In 2008, the Velikiye Luki received the status of the City of Military Glory.
Historical objects
Velikolukskaya fortress.
Settlement IX —
X centuries. (4 km from the city).
Monuments
Monument to
Alexander Matrosov.
Monument to the composer M. P. Mussorgsky.
Monument to K. K. Rokossovsky.
Monument to Academician I. M.
Vinogradov.
Museums
Velikoluksky local history museum, pl.
A.Matrosova.
Theaters
Velikoluksky Drama Theater.
Cinemas
Motherland. 11/16 Liza Chaykina Street
Ruby. Nekrasova
Street, 18 / 7litV, Rubin Shopping Center, 3rd floor
Apelsin
Vokzalnaya street, 13A 2 floor
A large ancient Russian settlement of the 9th-12th centuries was
located 30 km from the modern city, it was located on the famous route
"from the Varangians to the Greeks". It was first mentioned by Novgorod
chroniclers as the city of Luki on Lovat in 1166, when the Kiev prince
Rostislav I Mstislavich arrived here for negotiations with the Novgorod
boyars.
Velikiye Luki is mentioned in Novgorod birch bark
charters No. 675 (1140s - early 1160s) and No. 1005 (second quarter -
mid-12th century).
In 1211, the Velikolukskaya fortress was built
to defend the approaches to Novgorod and Pskov.
For military
merit, the city earned the title of "mantle of Novgorod" and "atrium of
Moscow", by 1406 Luke acquired the nickname of the Great. Since 1478,
the city, like the entire Novgorod land, has been subordinate to the
Moscow principality.
During the Livonian War, the headquarters of
Ivan the Terrible was located here. In 1580, at the final stage of the
war, the fortress was taken by the Polish-Lithuanian troops of King
Stefan Batory. Three years later, according to the Yam-Zapolsky peace,
the city was returned to Russia. Velikiye Luki suffered greatly during
the Time of Troubles.
Since 1727, the center of the Velikoluksky
province of the Novgorod province.
In the 18th century, the
Belarusian state highway was laid through the city. At the end of the
19th century, postal routes passed through Velikiye Luki. In 1901 (the
Society of the Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk railway) the
Moscow-Rzhev-Riga-Vindava railway (the Moscow-Vindava railway) was laid
through the city; in 1907 - Bologoe-Polotsk railway. d.
During
the Great Patriotic War, the battles for the liberation of Velikiye Luki
were so fierce that the city was nicknamed "Small Stalingrad". A museum
and a monument to Alexander Matrosov, who accomplished his feat near the
village of Chernushki, not far from Velikiye Luki, has been created in
the city.
From August 1944 to October 1957 it was the
administrative center of the Velikiye Luki region of the RSFSR.
After the collapse of the USSR, an economic and demographic crisis
began; the population decreased by almost a quarter, to 86 thousand
inhabitants. In those same years, the city received the nickname "Little
Chicago" in connection with the aggravated criminal situation. October
28, 2008 Velikiye Luki was awarded the title of "City of Military
Glory". President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed
Decree No. 1532, in which the city of Velikiye Luki was awarded the
honorary title of "City of Military Glory". Velikiye Luki became the
14th city in the country, the first in the Pskov region to be awarded
this honor. The basis for conferring the honorary title "City of
Military Glory" was:
1. Velikolukskoe battle of 1941, when
Velikiye Luki became the first major city of the USSR, temporarily
liberated by the Red Army during the Great Patriotic (Second World) War.
The soldiers of the 22nd Army, the Velikoluksky militia, the first
partisan detachments and groups delayed the advance of the invaders
inland for more than 40 days;
2. Velikolukskaya offensive
operation of 1942-1943, which took place in parallel with the final part
of the Battle of Stalingrad, ended with the encirclement and defeat of
the German garrison in Velikiye Luki, lasted about two months.
Cheap
Hotel "Harmony". Double room with shared facilities -
1000 rubles (2010), bridal suite (with double bed) - 1900 rubles
(2010) .. Located at the entrance to the city 4 km from the M9
highway. Quiet cozy place. Hotel clean, built in 2009. Ideal for
those in transit. The staff is attentive, for the guests of the
category of "comfort" amenities (including a space shower) in the
room + breakfast (breakfast coupon must be obtained from the
administrator). There is free parking and wifi. Cooked at home
delicious.
"Lesnaya Gavan" (Recreation center, hotel,
restaurant), Pskov region, Novoskolnichesky district, village
Spaster (514 km of the M9 turn on the village of Vorotkovo).
lesnaygavan@mail.ru ☎ 8-911-893-9872. Hotel: around the clock;
Restaurant from 10:00 - until 20:00. 800 rubles. The recreation
center is located on 514 km of the M9 highway on the shore of Lake
Spaster. On the territory of the base there is a hotel, a couple of
separate cottages, a Russian bath and a restaurant. The hotel works
all seasonally and around the clock.
Cheap
Dining str. Stavsky, 70, Safari bar Novoslobodskaya
Quay, 1. Eat per person within 200 rubles.
The city has two markets and a shopping center "Orange", address: st. Vokzalnaya, 11, telephone (81153) 6-86 -16 TC "Spring" st. Zvereva, 30/25 (mostly ware pavilions) of the Almaz shopping center, 2, Oktyabrsky Ave. (Magnit Hypermarket)
City from 1166 to 1406 bore the name of Luke; and from 1406 to the
present - Velikiye Luki. Versions of the origin of the toponym Luke:
In the plural form of onion - “curvature, inversion of the river;
arc, steep meander”, “low-lying and grassy or wooded cape; a floodplain
meadow surrounded by a river” (according to V. I. Dal) — the Lovat
River, on which the city is located, forms steep bends next to it.
In
Ancient Rus', the word "luka" was also used to refer to a damp piece of
land. In some Slavic countries (Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus), the word
"luka" more often means "meadow" or "water meadow" - for example,
"velyki luki" is translated from Ukrainian as "vast meadows" ("marshy
meadow in the valley", "low plain", "grassy hollow").
The name of one
of the first rulers of the city - the Novgorod governor Luka, sent here
from Kholm (according to the legend given by M. I. Semevsky).
Velikiye Luki is a border town: 80 km to the border with Belarus, 150
km to the border with Latvia. The city of Velikiye Luki is located 250
km southeast of Pskov, within the Lovatskaya lowland, on the banks of
the Lovat River (Lake Ilmen basin).
The Lovat River divides the
city into two banks, having twenty-six tributaries, in the Velikiye Luki
region: these are the Lazavitsa and Zolotovka rivers, and the Kolomenka,
Ozertsovsky, Bezymyanny, Murzinka and Sitovka streams. The Lazavitsa
River, in the southern part of the city, and the Bezymyanny stream in
the northwest are blocked by dams, forming shallow but wide ponds - fish
hatcheries. Within the city limits, Lovat makes 7 sharp bends. The
average annual water flow of the Lovat River near Velikie Luki is 20.2
m³/s; the average annual runoff module is 6.62 l/(km²⋅s).
The climate is temperate continental with long, snowy winters with
thaws and moderately warm, often rainy summers. During the year, winds
with a southern component (S, SE, SW) prevail. Average wind speeds in
the annual course vary from 3.2 m/s in summer to 5.2 m/s in winter. The
duration of the growing season is 4.5 months. The duration of the
heating season is 213 days. The average duration of freeze-up on the
river is 100-130 days. The duration of the swimming season (water
temperature +17 °C) on the Lovat River is almost all three summer
months.
The area belongs to the zone of excessive moisture, as
precipitation exceeds evaporation. Relative humidity is high throughout
the year, especially in the autumn-winter period (80-88%). In spring and
summer, its values decrease to 70-75%. During the spring flood, the
floodplain of the river is annually flooded with a layer of up to 2-3 m,
in some places up to 4 m. The presence of areas of waterlogged soils in
the city and small river tributaries, the rise of groundwater, leads to
cases of seasonal flooding in the spring-autumn period.
Air pollutant emissions from stationary sources, per inhabitant: 1995
- 79.7 kg; 2000 - 33.8 kg; 2005 - 30.4 kg; 2009 - 16.4 kg; in total for
2009 - 1.6 thousand tons[20]. Sulfur dioxide - the average for the year
and the maximum one-time concentration below 1.0 MPC; nitrogen dioxide -
average for the year 1.7 MPC, maximum one-time 1.5 MPC; the specific
gravity of atmospheric air samples above the MPC in the city of Velikiye
Luki is 4.7%.
MP "Vodokanal" discharged polluted wastewater into
water bodies (2009): total - 8.9 million m³; including without treatment
- 1.6 million m³. Percentage of unsatisfactory water samples from water
supply sources (2007): according to sanitary and chemical indicators -
87.5%; according to microbiological indicators - 7.7% (color > 300
degrees, COD > 60 mgO / l - in the Lovat River; also in groundwater -
hydrogen sulfide (H2S) 0.3-7.0 mg / l, saline ammonium (NH4) 0.8-4.0
mg/l, pH 7.3-7.9 meq/l, lack of fluorine, iodine). At water intakes,
groundwater is cleaned from hydrogen sulfide by a biochemical method.
The current Charter of the municipal formation "City of Velikie Luki"
was adopted by the decision of the Velikiye Luki City Duma of the third
convocation dated July 12, 2005 No. 57. According to it, the structure
of local governments is:
Velikolukskaya City Duma - a
representative body;
The head of the city of Velikiye Luki is the
head of the municipality. The head of the city performs the powers of
the chairman of the Velikoluksky City Duma, heads the Velikoluksky City
Duma and manages its activities. The head of the city is elected in
accordance with the procedure established by the law of the Pskov
region, by the Velikoluksky City Duma from its composition by secret
ballot for the term of office of the deputies of the Velikoluksky City
Duma. Since 2017, the head of the municipality of the city of Velikiye
Luki has been Kozlovsky Nikolai Nikolaevich.
The administration of
the municipal formation "City of Velikiye Luki" is a permanent executive
and administrative body of local self-government, endowed in accordance
with the Charter of the municipal formation with its own competence in
resolving issues of local importance, as well as exercising certain
state powers. The city administration is headed by the head of the city
administration and manages its activities on the principles of unity of
command. The acting Head of the Administration of the municipal
formation "City of Velikie Luki" (as of July 2021) is Svetlana
Viktorovna Stepanova.
Velikiye Luki urban district and Velikiye Luki district are a single
agro-industrial, economic and social complex of the southern zone of the
Pskov region.
The city performs the functions of a cultural,
financial, economic, educational, humanitarian, tourist and industrially
developed administrative and economic center of the interdistrict and
zonal level in the south of the Pskov region.
Velikiye Luki, as a
support center for social and cultural services, a node of advanced
(concentrated) development of the inter-district level and one of the
poles of growth of regional significance, in the future should be aimed
at strengthening the diversification and development of existing
functions: a large polystructural industrial complex with a developed
public business infrastructure, which is part of the southern zone of
economic activity in the region, with a high share of agro-industrial
and machine-building enterprises, through the strengthening of the role
in the territorial "system of division of labor" under the influence of
the attraction of the two largest agglomerations - Moscow and St.
Petersburg; with the formation of an interregional industrial cluster,
which is due to the border transit position of the southernmost zone, as
well as proximity to such large economic centers as Vitebsk and
Smolensk.
Velikiye Luki has an important function as the southern
focal point of the Pskov region, especially in the light of the region's
developing ties with neighboring regions of the Northwestern Federal
District, Belarus, and EU countries. This implies more active and closer
interaction with interregional agglomerations, border regions of the
Republic of Belarus and the Baltic countries.
As of 2009, there
were 4,109 small and medium-sized businesses in the city of Velikie
Luki. The number of employees in small and medium-sized enterprises, as
well as entrepreneurs without forming a legal entity, amounted to 16,028
people. These, in particular, include the trade sector, which employs
more than 60% of small and medium-sized businesses. The share in
transport is 9.4%; manufacturing industry - 7.5%; construction — 4.4%;
socially significant domestic services - 2.6%; agriculture - 0.4%
Share of industrial production (2009):
electrical equipment - 15%;
food products - 25%;
machines and mechanisms - 13%;
metal products
- 10%;
textile and clothing - 4%;
non-metallic mineral products -
3%.
The volume of shipped goods of own production of the
manufacturing industry (for 2011) - 25.38 billion rubles.
The share
of Velikie Luki enterprises in the production of the Pskov region is
almost 40%; the volume of the manufacturing industry is comparable to
the level of Pskov.
Key historically established industries that
determine the structure of the further development of the city's economy
and leading enterprises:
Retail store equipment:
ZAO Pilot
Plant Mikron;
Electrical products:
Velikoluksky Cable Plant (VLKZ
LLC);
LLC Cable Plant "Alyur";
Branch of OAO "Eliz" "Velikoluksky
plant of electrical porcelain";
Power Machines - Rheostat Plant LLC;
ZAO Plant of Electrical Equipment (ZETO);
JSC Plant of Alkaline
Batteries Impulse (VZShCHA).
Engineering products:
Velikoluksky
Machine-Building Plant (Velmash);
Company "Lifting Machines";
JSC
Velikoluksky Plant Leskhozmash;
OJSC "Velikoluksky Experimental
Machine-Building Plant";
JSC "Transneftemash" plant;
locomotive-car repair enterprise (depot).
Clothing production: CJSC
Sewing factory "Velfa"; CJSC "Kvart"; CJSC Trivel Knitting Factory.
Food industry: Velikoluksky Dairy Plant CJSC (dairy plant and cheese
factory); OOO Velikiye Luki – Grain Product (mixed feed); Velikoluksky
Combine of Bakery Products LLC; SPRK "Kolkhoz Krasny Rybak" (fish
processing plant); JSC Velikoluksky Meat Processing Plant (meat
processing).
On the territory of Velikiye Luki there are both local business
offices and regional branches - representative offices of the largest
networks of leading Russian retail leaders, including branded stores of
the most popular brands: LLC "Velikolukskie kolbasy", "Molokolamsk",
etc. Two central city markets (for 1462 trading places): Weekend trading
is held every Saturday at 2 sites. The practice of holding annual food
fairs (“Spring” and “Autumn”) has developed, where over 140 business
entities carry out retail sales.
The retail trade turnover of
large and medium-sized organizations (as of 2010) amounted to 1,567.9
million rubles.
GBUZ PO Velikolukskaya Interdistrict Hospital, has in its structure a
hospital for 457 beds (Bolnichnaya Street, 10), a polyclinic for 800
visits per shift (Pionerskaya Street, 10), a maternity hospital for 70
beds (S. Kovalevskoy Street, 20), ambulance station (Timiryazeva street,
12).
GBUZ PO "Velikolukskaya Children's City Hospital" (S.
Kovalevskoy Street, 18/16), in its structure has a hospital and a
children's clinic for 600 visits per shift.
The private healthcare
institution "Hospital" RZD-Medicine "of the city of Velikiye Luki"
(Gagarin Avenue, 97), has in its structure a hospital for 90 beds and a
polyclinic for 250 visits per shift.
GAUZ PO "Velikolukskaya Dental
Clinic" for 300 visits per shift (Gagarin Avenue, 9).
Velikoluksky
branch of the Pskov regional blood transfusion station (Bolnichnaya
street, 4).
Branch Velikoluksky GBUZ PO "Narcological dispensary of
the Pskov region" (Sibirtseva street, 40).
Branch Velikoluksky GBUZ
PO "Dermatovenerological dispensary of the Pskov region" (Nekrasova
street, 9).
Branch Velikoluksky GBUZ PO "Oncological dispensary of
the Pskov region" (Stavskogo street, 77).
Branch Velikoluksky GBUZ PO
"Antituberculosis dispensary" (Sibirtseva street, 45).
Velikoluksky
branch of the FBUZ "Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Pskov
Region" (Timiryazeva Street, 9).
Bodies of social protection
Local operating charitable and public organizations: “A branch of the
Pskov regional organization of the All-Russian Society of the Blind”;
Velikoluksky branch of the All-Russian Society of the Disabled (VOI);
Regional branch of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (VOG); LLC
Velikolukskoe city branch "Russian Red Cross".
In 2010, an autumn
charitable exhibition-fair “Generosity of autumn - generosity of the
heart”, which claims to be an annual, was held.
In the city there
are stationary institutions of medical and social rehabilitation:
GBUSO "Center for assistance to children left without parental care,
Velikiye Luki";
GOU "Special (correctional) general education school
No. 9 of the VIII type";
GBOU "Velikolukskaya comprehensive boarding
school for children in need of social support";
GBUSO "Rehabilitation
Center for Children and Adolescents with Disabilities";
GBUSO
"Velikoluksky boarding house for the elderly and disabled";
"Psycho-neurological boarding school";
GBUSO "Center for Social
Services in Velikiye Luki".
Higher education
FGOU VPO Velikie Luki State Agricultural Academy
(VGSHA)
Velikiye Luki State Academy of Physical Culture (FGBOU VPO
VLGAFK) (on the basis of which the Research Institute of Sports and
Physical Culture Problems operates).
Branch of St. Petersburg State
University of Communications (PSTU)
Branch of Pskov State University
In 1945-1970, the Velikoluksky Pedagogical Institute operated.
Secondary vocational education
GBPOU Pskov region Velikoluksky
Polytechnic College;
Technical School of Railway Transport named
after K. S. Zaslonov (VLTZhT);
Forestry College;
Construction
College;
Medical College;
Velikoluksky branch of the St.
Petersburg Electrotechnical College (SPETK);
GOU SPO Velikoluksky
Mechanics and Technology College.
Secondary general education
On the territory of the city there are 17 institutions of secondary
general education (MBOU), including:
11 secondary schools (No. 1,
2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17);
1 gymnasium named after S. V.
Kovalevskaya (former school No. 3);
1 pedagogical lyceum (former
school No. 4);
3 lyceums (No. 10, 11, Engineering and Economic
Lyceum)
1 cadet school (former school No. 8);
1 education center
(part-time school, for students in grades 7-8-9 full-time education, for
grades 10-11-12 - correspondence).
Preschool education
There are
20 preschool institutions of various types in the city.
Additional education
There are 4 institutions of additional education
in the city:
Center for children's (youthful) technical
creativity;
House of children's creativity named after A. Kaborgin;
Children's and youth sports school No. 1 Athletics;
Children's and
youth school Olympia.