Giant (Rostov)

settlement Giant Гигант Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Salski head Yuri Shtelman Founded 1928 Settlement since 2004 population 10,249 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 75  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86372 Post Code 347628 License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 250 812 001 Website srts.donpac.ru/giant Geographical location Coordinates 46 ° 30 ′  N , 41 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 30 ″  N , 41 ° 20 ′ 30 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Gigant ( Russian Гига́нт ) is a settlement (possjolok) in the Rostov Oblast in Russia with 10,249 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the steppe area of the Caucasus foreland about 150 km as the crow flies southeast of the administrative center of Rostov-on-Don .

Giant belongs to Rajon Salski and is located 15 km west-northwest of the administrative center Salsk . The settlement is the seat of the rural community Gigantovskoye selskoye posselenije, which also includes the 15 settlements of Agarensky, Chlebny, Glubokaya Balka, Jassenewo, Klyony, Kuznetsovsky, Logvinovsky, Nizhnejaninsky, Pravoyulovsky, Prirechyoknyy and Sejatscha, Zagorje, Niševskyi together belong to over 5000 inhabitants, who are up to 20 km away (Kuznetsovsky, north).

history

The settlement arose from June 1928 in 1915 the railway line Rostov-on-Don - Salsk opened station Trubezkaja, as in the field order of the Central Committee of the VKP (B) a first model state farm with the aim of significantly increasing the grain production of the Soviet Union was , along with about ten others in other parts of the country later that year. It was initially called Sowchos Nr. 1, from November 1928 Gigant, and its administration was in Zelina, 25 km to the west . In 1930 the administration was relocated to the more centrally located settlement at the Trubetskaya train station, which on February 10, 1933 also received the name Gigant and the status of an urban-type settlement . In 1934, the now 260,000 hectare sovkhos were divided into four independent operations based in Gigant, Zelina, Salsk and Julowski .

During the Second World War , Gigant was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from late July 1942 to early 1943 . Since 2004 the place has had the status of a rural settlement again.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	12,555
1970	10,008
1979	10,180
1989	10.122
2002	10,049
2010	10,249

Note: census data

traffic

Gigant is located at kilometer 159 of the Rostov-on-Don - Salsk railway line ( Trubetskaya station ). The regional road 60K-3 (formerly R270), which connects Yegorlykskaya on 60K-1 (formerly R269) Rostov - Stavropol with Salsk on 60K-2 Pestschanokopskoje  - Kotelnikowo ( Volgograd Oblast ) runs through the settlement .

Web links

• Official website of the local government (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)