Firowo

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Urban-type settlement
Firowo
Chirova
Federal district Central Russia
Oblast Tver
Rajon Firowski
Founded 1902
Urban-type settlement since 1947
population 2433 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 215  m
Time zone UTC + 3
Telephone code (+7) 48239
Post Code 172720
License Plate 69
OKATO 28 257 551
Geographical location
Coordinates 57 ° 29 '  N , 33 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 29 '0 "  N , 33 ° 42' 15"  E
Firowo (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Firowo (Tver Oblast)
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Location in Tver Oblast

Firowo ( Russian Фирово ) is an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast in Russia with 2,433 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 150 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center on the Firowka river not far from its confluence with the Granitschnaja in the Zna catchment area .

Firowo administrative center is the Rajons Firowski and seat and only town of the municipality posselenije Firowskoje gorodskoje.

history

The place was created from 1902 in connection with the construction of the Bologoje  - Velikije Luki railway , when a station was built there. In 1924 Firowo became the seat of a Wolost des Ujesds Waldai , and after several administrative changes, finally on March 5, 1935, the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him.

In 1947 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement. The Rajon was disbanded from February 1963 to April 6, 1972.

Population development

year Residents
1939 1564
1959 3158
1970 3244
1979 2700
1989 3070
2002 2837
2010 2433

Note: census data

traffic

Firowo has a train station at kilometer 55 of the railway line Bologoje - Velikije Luki (- Polatsk , Belarus ), which opened continuously in 1907  . A freight line branches off in a south-easterly direction to the Velikooktjabrski settlement 9 km away .

Regional road 28K-0250 also runs via Velikooktjabrski to the new M11 Moscow  - Saint Petersburg motorway (which went into operation in 2014), 35 km to the northeast, and further to the M10 at Krasnomaiski, not far from Vyshny Volotschok, just under 50 km away .

Web links

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)