Bekowo (Pensa)

Urban-type settlement Bekowo Беково flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Bekowski First mention 1621 Earlier names Osjory, Nikolskoye Cherkasskoye (1725–1745) Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 6941 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84141 Post Code 442940-442941 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 209 551 Website rpbekovo.bekovo.pnzreg.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 28 '  N , 43 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '45 "  N , 43 ° 42' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

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.

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  Rajon administration with Lenin monument

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  Former home of the merchant Makarov

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  Culture house

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  railway station

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  Former Ustinow manor

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
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

Commons : Bekowo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)

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)