Bykowo (Volgograd)

Urban-type settlement Bykowo Быково Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Rajon Bykovsky head Vitaly Sergiyenko Founded 1784 Urban-type settlement since 1956 population 7719 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 35  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84495 Post Code 404061-404062 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 204 551 Website admbikovo.ucoz.ru Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 46 '  N , 45 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '45 "  N , 45 ° 23' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

Bykowo ( Russian Бы́ково ) is an urban-type settlement in the Volgograd Oblast in Russia with 7719 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located about 130 km as the crow flies north-northwest of the Volgograd Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the four to five kilometers wide Volgograd reservoir of the Volga .

Bykovo is the administrative center of the Rajons Bykovsky and seat of the municipality Bykowskoje gorodskoje posselenije, (km east 4) (1 km south) are among the also the settlement Rasdolje and the hamlet Soljanka.

history

The town was founded in 1784 and after the Erstsiedlern, who had fled from Central Russia serf named brothers Bykov. The village gained economic importance through melon cultivation in the region from the beginning of the 19th century.

In January 1935 Bykowo became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1956 it received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6116
1959	4900
1970	6775
1979	7444
1989	7827
2002	8250
2010	7719

Note: census data

traffic

Regional road 18R-2 runs past the eastern edge of the settlement, which begins in Volgograd and from Wolschski follows the left bank of the Volga to the border of Saratov Oblast ; there continue as 36R-069 to Engels . At Bykowo, the 18K-14 branches off towards the state border with Kazakhstan, which is just under 100 km away, and further along this to the Elton settlement not far from the lake of the same name .

The nearest train station is about 35 km north on the other bank of the Volga in Kamyshin .

Web links

• 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)