Kantemirovka

Kantemirovka Кантемировка
Urban-type settlement
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Location of Kantemirovka
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Coordinates: 49.7027°N 39.8540°E / 49.7027; 39.8540
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Voronezh Oblast
Administrative district	Kantemirovsky District
Founded	1742
Population  (2010 Census)[1]
• Total	11,943
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK [2])
Postal code(s)[3]	396730
OKTMO ID	20619151051

Kantemirovka (Russian: Кантемировка; earlier Konstantinovka, Russian: Константиновка^[4]) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Kantemirovsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: 10,715 (2021 Census);^[5] 11,943 (2010 Census);^[1] 12,949 (2002 Census);^[6] 13,465 (1989 Soviet census).^[7]

It was founded in the 18th century, and is named after its landowners Constantin Cantemir and his son Dimitrie Cantemir, members of the former ruling family of Moldavia. They sided with Peter the Great's army to free their land from the Ottoman Empire, and when the Russian side lost, moved to Russia and were included in Russian nobility. Dimitrie was a philosopher and writer, as well as a musician, and his son Antioch a prominent Russian author. In the 19th century the village was the center of Konstantinovskaya volost, Bogucharsky Uyezd, Voronezh Governorate.^[4]

In 1942, during World War II, there was heavy fighting for Kantemirovka's railway station. Kantemirovka was under German occupation from 10 July 1942 until 19 December 1942,^[8] when Red Army tank units of the Southwestern Front finally freed it from German troops. In honour of this victory, the derivative adjective name Kantemirovskaya was awarded to the 4th Guards Tank Division, and 10 years later a street in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) was renamed after the victory; in Moscow a street [ru] was named after the division, and a metro station after the street; in Leningrad its street gave name to a large bridge built in 1979-82 at its western end, and in the 21st century, Saint Petersburg planned to build a station of its metro Ring Line on the street near the bridge named Kantemirovskaya.

References

1. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
2. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
3. Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
4. Historical information on Konstantinovka village
5. Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Всероссийская перепись населения 2020 года. Том 1 [2020 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1] (XLS) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
6. Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
7. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.
8. Освобождение городов