Morshansk train station

Morshansk is the district center of the Tambov region, located in the northern part of the Oksko-Don plain 90 km north of Tambov. Population: 49,000 (2001). First mentioned in 1623 as the village of Morsha, which belonged to the Ryazan bishops. Mordovian population in the 17th century adopted Christianity and assimilated by Russian settlers. The status of the city Morshansk received in 1779. Until the mid-1870s, Morshansk was considered the largest commercial and industrial center of the Tambov province. Carrying out the Ryazan-Kozlovsk railway that passed Morshansk reduced the importance of the city. In 1880-1890, large cloth and tobacco factories were built in Morshansk. In the Soviet years, chemical engineering plants (Morshanskkhimmash?), auto repair and foundry-mechanical plants were built.

 

The architectural monuments of Morshansk include the Trinity Cathedral (1836-1857), an almost exact copy of the Transfiguration Cathedral, built in St. Petersburg by the architect V. P. Stasov. Near Morshansk in the village of Novotomnikovo, the estate of Vorontsov-Dashkov (18-19 centuries) has been preserved, there is also the oldest in Russia Novotomnikov stud, known for breeding Orel trotters. The Morshansk Museum of Local Lore is interesting with a collection of Russian antiquities of the 16th-17th centuries, a collection of Russian and Western European paintings, unique exhibits on the history and ethnography of the Morshansk, materials on the history of the city and the life of its natives - sculptor E. A. Lancere, astronomer A. A. Mikhailov. In Morshansk, hockey player and football player Vsevolod Bobrov was born.