Bashmakovo (Penza)

Urban-type settlement Bashmakovo Башмаково flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Bashmakovsky Founded 1875 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 10,416 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84143 Post Code 442060 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 203 551 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 13 '  N , 43 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 12 '45 "  N , 43 ° 2' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Bashmakowo ( Russian Башмако́во ) is an urban-type settlement in Penza Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,416 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located about 130 km west of the Oblastverwaltungszentrums Penza at the headwaters of Poim, a right tributary of Worona .

Bashmakovo is the administrative center of the Rajons Baschmakowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Bashmakovo.

history

The settlement was founded in 1875 by a railway station on the 1874 opened distance Morshansk  - Penza - Syzran between the northern village Koljossowka and the southern, known since 1860 Weiler Michailowka (both were incorporated later). The station was named after two shareholders of the Morshansk-Sysran Railway as well as the Ryashsk- Morzhansker Railway, which was built in 1867 and adjoined the west , the brothers Alexander and Sergei Bashmakov (also engineer in route construction).

In 1928 Bashmakowo became the administrative seat of a Rajon and since 1959 it has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3,866
1959	11,245
1970	7,642
1979	8,876
1989	9,935
2002	9,783
2010	10,416

Note: census data

traffic

Bashmakovo is located at kilometer 541 (from Moscow ) on the Ryashsk - Syzran route, part of the oldest connection between central Russia and the Urals .

Road connection exists via regional roads to the south to the federal trunk road R208 Tambov  - Belinsky  - Pensa, about 25 km away , to the northeast, initially along the railway line to Patschelma and further to Nizhny Lomov on the M5 Ural Moscow - Chelyabinsk and in a northwest direction to the neighboring district center Semettschino and further also to the M5.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Bashmakowo on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Bashmakovo on the website inpenza.ru (Russian)