Glasunowka (Oryol)
Urban-type settlement
Glasunowka
Глазуновка
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Glasunowka ( Russian Глазуно́вка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Oryol Oblast in Russia with 5939 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is well 50 km crow flies south-southeast of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Oryol about five kilometers west of Suscha -Nebenflusses Nerutsch . The large Volga tributary, the Oka, has its source a good 15 km southwest of the settlement, not far from the border with Kursk Oblast .
Glasunowka is the administrative center of Glasunovsky Rajons and the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Glasunowka.
history
The place goes back to the Alexandrowka train station , which was built on the Moscow - Kharkov line when it opened in 1868. Since there were several stations of this name, it was renamed on January 1, 1904 in Glasunowka after a nearby village. At the turn of the century, the development of the settlement that had grown around the station began to accelerate, and on January 18, 1935, it became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after it.
During the Second World War , Glazunovka was occupied by the German Wehrmacht at the end of October 1941 , was near the front on the northern flank of the "Kursk Arc" for a long time and was finally recaptured on July 25, 1943 by the Red Army as part of the Oryol Operation .
In 1962 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 857 |
1959 | 2708 |
1970 | 5608 |
1979 | 6406 |
1989 | 7025 |
2002 | 6756 |
2010 | 5939 |
Note: census data
traffic
Glasunowka has a station at kilometer 445 of the railway line Moscow - Kursk - Belgorod - Kharkiv ( Ukraine ), which opened on this section in 1868 and has been electrified since 1959 .
The regional road 54K-7 runs through the settlement, which branches off the federal trunk road R119 Oryol - Lipetsk - Tambov not far from the neighboring district center of Smijowka to the north and continues in a westerly direction to the federal trunk road M2 near Trosna . In a south-westerly direction, regional road 54K-8 branches off parallel to the border with Kursk Oblast into the district centers of Maloarchangelsk , Kolpna and Dolgoje .
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)