Duchownitskoye

Urban-type settlement Dukhovnitskoye Dukhovnitskoe coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Rajon Duchownitski Founded 1778 Earlier names Pavlovskoye Novo-Pavlovka Urban-type settlement since 1966 population 5338 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 35  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84573 Post Code 413900-413901 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 214 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 29 ′  N , 48 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 40 "  N , 48 ° 12 ′ 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

Duchownizkoje ( Russian Духовницкое ) is an urban-type settlement in the Saratov Oblast in Russia with 5338 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 190 km as the crow flies northeast of the Saratov Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the 6 km wide Saratower reservoir of the Volga opposite the small town of Chwalynsk .

Dukhovnitskoye is the administrative center of the Rajons Duchownizki and seat and only town of the municipality Dukhovnitskoye gorodskoje posselenije.

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  Lenin Street in Sukhovitskoye

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  Rajon Culture House

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  Frozen Saratov reservoir of the Volga near Duchownitskoye, view to Chwalynsk

history

The place was founded in 1778 by the old Orthodox under the name Pavlovskoje (alternatively Novo-Pavlovka, "New Pavlovka"). It initially belonged to the Ujesd Chwalynsk of the Saratov governorate , came in 1835 to the outsourced Ujesd Nikolajewsk (today Pugachev ) and in 1851 to the newly formed Samara governorate .

On July 23, 1928, Duchownitskoje was the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1966 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1992
1959	2853
1970	5122
1979	5564
1989	6545
2002	5987
2010	5338

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road 63K-00010, which follows the left bank of the Saratov reservoir from Balakovo 60 km away, leads to Duchownizkoje . Duchownitskoye is 270 km from Saratov by road. In a south-easterly direction, a road leads to Pugatschow, also about 60 km away . There is a passenger ferry connection to Chwalynsk via the reservoir ; the car ferry connection , via which the federal highway R228, Syzran  - Saratov - Volgograd , west of Chwalynsk could be reached, has been out of service since 2012. On the road from Chwalynsk in the direction of Staraya Kulatka ( Ulyanovsk Oblast ), the nearest train station is 30 km away in Popovka on the Syzran - Saratov - Volgograd route.

Web links

Commons : Duchownitskoje  - 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)