Bessonowka (Pensa, Bessonowski)

Village Bessonowka Бессоновка flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Bessonowski Founded 1665 population 11,408 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84140 Post Code 442780 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 213 804 001 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 18 '  N , 45 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 18 '30 "  N , 45 ° 2' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Bessonowka ( Russian Бессо́новка ) is a village (selo) in the Penza Oblast in Russia with 11,408 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is well 10 km straight line north of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Pensa on the left bank of the Volga -Nebenflusses Sura , at the confluence of its left tributary Scheldais.

Bessonowka is the administrative center of the Rajons Bessonowski and seat of the rural community selsowet (selskoje posselenije) Bessonowski, (km northwest 4), which also includes the villages Bardinka Mastinowka (14 km west) and Uchtinka (4 km SSW) and the settlements Dessjataja Artel (4 km south), Kolos (10 km east), Nikolajewka (10 km east-northeast), Novaya Shizn (8 km southeast) and Podlesny (7 km east-southeast).

history

The place went from a company founded around 1665 (according to other sources 1693) Cossacks - Sloboda out that bit further south on the left was Sura inflow Pensjatka and therefore first as Pensjazkaja sloboda was called. Nearby was the village of Jamskaja sloboda, also mentioned as Jamschtschina in 1717 . Since the gradually merging villages were on the lands of a Mordovian local prince (Mirza) with the (Russified) name Murdakai Bessonow, the current name, which was first mentioned in 1724, was later established.

Since January 25, 1935, Bessonowka has been the seat of the district named after him - with an interruption from September 1958 to October 20, 1980, when the territory of the district was attached to the Pensenski rajon .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	8,324
1926	11,289
1939	8,690
1959	7,500
1979	8,953
1989	9,862
2002	10,012
2010	11,408

Note: census data

traffic

Bessonowka is located on the Penza - Saransk branch of the M5 Ural federal trunk road , which branches off not far south of the town from the main Moscow  - Samara  - Chelyabinsk route (also part of European route 30 ), which Penza turns north.

In the village there has been a train station since 1926 at route kilometer 128 on the Rusajewka  - Pensa railway line, which opened in 1895 and has been electrified since 1969 .

Web links

• Official website of the Raion 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)