Unofficial record holder, at least in the region and country, for the number of name changes. A small green town is located in the central part of the Voronezh region. We can assume that the population of the city of Liski was lucky with the last renaming, otherwise they were still called in a foreign way - Georgians.
Geographic Information
One of the cultural and economically developed regions of the region, located on the left bank of the Don River, between the Khvorostan and Ikorets tributaries, at the mouth of the Tormosovka stream. Nearby are lakes Bogatoye, Kostyanka and Peskovatskoe. Liski is the administrative center of the urban settlement of the same name and the municipal district of the Voronezh region. The city occupies an area of 6.6 hectares, Kalach farm is located close to it.
At a distance of 100 km to the north is the regional center, 627 km to the capital of Russia, 111 km is the border with Ukraine. The city is a major railway junction of the South Eastern Railway.
The territory of the urban settlement is located in the southern partOka-Donskoy lowland. The Liski are built on a plain with small elevation differences, heavily crossed by a network of ravines and ravines.
Origin of the name
There are several versions about the origin of the name. According to the main one, the village was named after the chalk mountains located on the right bank, on which there is almost no vegetation. In the sources of the 18-19th century, the name of the river flowing in the area is given in the forms Lysk, Lysochka, formed from the adjective "bald".
Another version - the name was given by red predators, which live in many in the surrounding ravines. In the forests near the town and now you can find a lot of foxes.
History
The settlement has been known since the 16th century, in 1571 a guard post Bogaty Zaton was organized here on the shores of Lake Bogatoe (Old Lady of the Don). In 1787, the village of Novaya Pokrovka (Bobrovskoye) was built on this site, located on the left bank of the Don. In the 17th century, small settlements began to appear nearby, which later became part of the city. In 1870, the Liski railway station was built in the center of the settlement, which was named after the village on the opposite bank.
In 1928, the station settlement was attached to the village of Novopokrovskoye. The new administrative unit was named the working settlement of Svoboda, which in 1937 received the status of a city, and in 1943 - the name of Liski. In the rare years of good relations with Romania, in 1965, it was renamed Georgiou-Dej, after the name of one of the leaders of the Romanian Communist Party, G. Georgiou-Deja (1901-1965). In 1991, the former name of Liski was returned to the city.
Population before the revolution
There are no reliable data on the population of Liski at the time the first settlement was founded. At the outpost, guarding the distant borders of the country from the raids of the Crimean Tatars, servicemen lived with their families. In the mid-1880s, there were 9 houses and 410 people living in Liski, almost all of whom were involved in the railway, built a decade ago. After the abolition of serfdom, peasants from the central provinces of Russia began to move en masse to these fertile lands.
In 1897, the settlement had 5,500 inhabitants. The rapid growth of the population of Liski in the Voronezh province is due to the fact that the station has become a hub on the directions "north-south" and "west-east", respectively, the freight traffic has increased. Many new jobs have been created related to railroad maintenance, including in warehouses, inns, and taverns.
Population between the two wars
In the revolutionary and first post-revolutionary years, the population of Liski continued to grow, in difficult years people accumulate in large cities and transport hubs, where there is at least some opportunity to earn money. In 1931, after the annexation of the village of Novopokrovskoye, 13,600 people lived in the workers' settlement. Soviet industrialization significantly increased the flow of freight, new enterprises were created to repair and maintain railway transportation. Population of LisokVoronezh region, continued to grow due to rural residents and specialists from other regions of the country.
According to the all-Union census of 1939, 25,500 people lived in the near-station settlement. The growth compared to the previous mark was about 50%. During the war years, the working settlement was located directly on the front line, the Hungarian units captured the right bank, directly opposite the Liski station.
Population in modern times
In the first decades after the war, the reconstruction of the country required significant volumes of transportation. The population of Liski grew rapidly, and the supply of jobs in the comparatively well-paid railway enterprises grew rapidly. In 1959, the population of Lisok was 37,638. A significant part of the population growth was made up of workers and specialists recruited from various regions of the country to work at plants for assembly blanks and metal structures and an oil extraction plant. Due to the rapid growth of the population in 1967, the first five-story residential buildings were built in the city, the number of residents then grew to 47,000 people.
In subsequent years, the population of Liski continued to increase, even during the difficult times of the early 90s. This is probably due to the fact that rail transportation, in which about 50% of the city's residents were employed, was one of the few rhythmically operating industries. In 1998, 56,500 people lived in the city. The maximum number of inhabitants of 55,700 was recorded in 2000. In the future, slight fluctuations in the number ofpopulation Liski either in the direction of increase or decrease. In 2017, 54184 people lived in the city
