Firowo
Urban-type settlement
Firowo
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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)