Official Name: | Maļinova |
Settlement Type: | Medium-size village |
Pushpin Map: | Latvia |
Pushpin Mapsize1: | 125 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Latvia |
Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Augšdaugava Municipality |
Subdivision Type2: | Parish |
Subdivision Name2: | Maļinova Parish |
Population As Of: | 2009 |
Population Total: | 479 |
Coordinates: | 55.99°N 26.6908°W |
Elevation M: | 125 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | LV-5459 |
Maļinova (historically and locally[1] known as Maļinovka) is a mid-size village in Maļinova Parish, Augšdaugava Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia. It is a parish centre. It is located 19 km northeast of Daugavpils at the A13 national road/European route E262.
The inhabited locality grew up out of the former Malinovka village after World War II as a centre of a selsoviet and the Znamya Oktyabrya kolkhoz.[2]
Today Maļinova is the home of the parish administration, a house of culture, library, feldsher station and the Elijah the Prophet Orthodox church, which is a rebuilt priest's house.[3] A bell tower was built here, as a result of donations, and in 2008, three new bells were bought.[4]
The first church in Malinova was built in 1836, but was burned down during the second world war, and in its place was built a Culture house, which was burned down in 2010.[5] A new Orthodox church is being built on this same sit.[6]