Khvoinaja (Novgorod)

Urban-type settlement Chwoinaja Хвойная coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Novgorod Rajon Khvoininsky Founded 1918 Urban-type settlement since 1935 population 6394 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 155  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81667 Post Code 174581 License Plate 53 OKATO 49 245 551 Website admhvoinaya.ru Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 54 '  N , 34 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 53 '45 "  N , 34 ° 30' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Novgorod Oblast

Chwoinaja ( Russian Хво́йная ) is an urban-type settlement in the Novgorod Oblast in Russia with 6394 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 200 km as the crow flies east-northeast of the Veliky Novgorod Oblast Administrative Center on the Pes river .

Chwoinaja is the administrative center of the Rajons Chwoininski and seat and only town of the municipality Chwoininskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

The place was created in 1918 as a station settlement on the railway line from Mga (near Saint Petersburg ) to Sonkowo (on the Rybinsk  - Bologoje line ), which was built from 1916 . The name is derived from the Russian chwoja for "needle" (a conifer), with reference to the location in the middle of pine forests .

On August 1, 1931, the administrative seat of Minezki rajon, founded in 1927, was relocated from the village of Minzy, 15 km to the northeast , to Chwoinaja, which is more conveniently located in terms of transport. at the same time renamed the Rajon. In 1935 the place received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,052
1959	7,291
1970	6,973
1979	6,618
1989	7,583
2002	6,791
2010	6,394

Note: census data

traffic

Chvoinaja has a train station at kilometer 229 on the Saint Petersburg - Ovinishche  - Sonkowo (-  Moscow ) railway line , which, after delays due to the civil war, did not go into regular operation until 1932.

The 49K-0213 regional road from the town of Borowitschi, 70 km to the southwest, leads into the settlement . To the west, initially along the railway line, the 49K-0720 runs to the neighboring Rajon center of Ljubytino , a good 60 km away , and to the east, the 49K-1831 to the small town of Pestowo, 80 km away .

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)