Bekowo (Pensa)
Urban-type settlement
Bekowo
Беково
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Bekowo ( Russian Бе́ково ) is an urban-type settlement in the Penza Oblast in Russia with 6941 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The village is located about 120 km in a straight line southwest of the Oblastverwaltungszentrums Penza , near the border with the Saratov Oblast . It is located on the right bank of the Chopjor .
Bekowo is the administrative center of the Rajons Bekowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotchi possjolok Bekowo.
Rajon administration with Lenin monument
history
A place in the place of today's settlement was mentioned for the first time in 1621, but the founding year is 1671, when a church was built in the local village of Osjory and the place was subsequently referred to as Nikolskoje after the name of the church . In 1725 the village was renamed Cherkasskoye after it had been acquired by the Kabardian princely family with the Russified name Bekowitsch-Cherkassky. In 1745 it was given its current name, after the other part of the family name.
In the course of the 19th century, Bekowo developed into a locally important economic center with a few smaller factories and rail links. It became the administrative seat of a Volost des Ujesds Serdobsk of the Saratov governorate .
On July 16, 1928, Bekowo became the seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1959 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement. In 1985 the nearby large village of Naryschkino was incorporated.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 2775 |
1939 | 4004 |
1959 | 5477 |
1970 | 4606 |
1979 | 4477 |
1989 | 7311 |
2002 | 6891 |
2010 | 6941 |
Note: census data
traffic
Bekowo is the end of a 15 km long railway line, opened in 1874, which branches off the line ( Moscow -) Michurinsk - Tambov - Saratov at the Wertunovskaya station to the west .
There is a road connection via the regional road 58K-359, which initially leads eastwards via Serdobsk and Kolyshlei to Penza, to the west to the Kirsanov - Rtishchevo - Saratov regional road , which is a good 30 km away , and to the north to the federal trunk road R208 Tambov - Pensa near Kamenka .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)