Beschanizy

Urban-type settlement Beschanizy Бежаницы Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Pskov Rajon Beschanizki Urban-type settlement since 1961 population 4,333 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81141 Post Code 182840 License Plate 60 OKATO 58 204 551 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 59 '  N , 29 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 58 '30 "  N , 29 ° 53' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Pskov Oblast

Beschanizy ( Russian Бежа́ницы ) is an urban-type settlement in the Pskov Oblast in Russia with 4,333 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Beschanizy main street

The place is about 130 km as the crow flies southeast of the Pskov Oblast Administrative Center . The left Sorot tributary Lsta rises a few kilometers .

Beschanizy is the administrative center of Beschanizki Rajon . It is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Beschanizy, also seat of the rural municipality Beschanizkoje selskoje posselenije, but does not belong to it itself.

history

The place was founded in the 16th century. In 1777 he became the administrative seat of a Volost of Ujezds Novorschew .

On August 1, 1927, Beschanizy became the seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. During the Second World War , Beschanizy was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from July 18, 1941 to February 27, 1944 . On August 7, 1961, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1382
1959	1331
1970	4771
1979	5265
1989	6789
2002	4846
2010	4333

Note: census data

traffic

Four kilometers northeast of Beschanizy, near the village of the same name, is the Suschtschewo station at 340 kilometer of the railway line St. Petersburg  - Novosokolniki  - Nevel  - Vitebsk, which opened on this section in September 1901 .

The settlement is located on the regional road 58K-019, which leads from the west from Pushkinskije Gory via Novorschew to the south-east neighboring district of Loknja . To the northwest, the 58K-018 branches off via Dedowitschi to Porchow on the federal trunk road R56 . The 58K-004 runs to the south-west in the direction of Opotschka on the R23 .

Web links

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

• Official website of the district 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)