Krasnaya Gora (russian: Кра́сная Гора́) is an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Bryansk Oblast Bryansk Oblast (russian: Бря́нская о́бласть, ''Bryanskaya oblast''), also known as Bryanshchina (russian: Брянщина, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is th ...

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. It is the administrative center of

Krasnogorsky District Krasnogorsky District (russian: Красного́рский райо́н, ''Krasnogórskiy raion'') is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. The name is generally derived from or related to the collocation "''krasn ...

. Population:

History

First mentioned in 1387 as a guard settlement. Listed in the " List of Ruthenian Cities Far and Near". In 1648 Popov Gora hosted a fight between Cossacks of

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...

and six thousandth detachment of Polish Hetman Vishnevetzky. In the past century, Popova Gora was

sotnia Sotnia (Ukrainian and ) was a military unit and administrative division in many Slavic countries. Sotnia, deriving back to 1948, has been used in a variety of contexts in both Ukraine and Russia to this day. It is a helpful word to create sh ...

center Popogorskoy hundreds and parish center Popovogorskoy parish. Since 1929 - the regional center. Since 1968 it is settlement of urban type.

Ecological problems

As a result of the

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...

on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with

radionuclides A radionuclide (radioactive nuclide, radioisotope or radioactive isotope) is a nuclide that has excess nuclear energy, making it unstable. This excess energy can be used in one of three ways: emitted from the nucleus as gamma radiation; transfer ...

(mainly Gordeyevsky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Krasnogorsky, Surazhsky, and Novozybkovsky Districts). In 1999, some 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km², representing approximately 16% of the oblast's population.

References

{{Bryansk Oblast ´ Urban-type settlements in Bryansk Oblast Surazhsky Uyezd