Glushkowo (Kursk)

Urban-type settlement Gluschkowo Глушково Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kursk Rajon Gluschkowski Founded 1647 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 5349 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47132 Post Code 307450 License Plate 46 OKATO 38 204 551 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 21 '  N , 34 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '30 "  N , 34 ° 38' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kursk Oblast

Gluschkowo ( Russian Глушко́во ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kursk Oblast in Russia with 5349 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 110 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the Kursk Oblast Administrative Center , about 10 km from the state border with Ukraine . It is located on the left bank of the Seim River .

Gluschkowo administrative center is the Rajons Gluschkowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Gluschkowo.

history

The place was founded in 1647 and gained economic importance in the 18th century after a weaving mill for fulled fabrics was opened there in 1719 as one of the first industrial companies in the region. Glushkowo became the seat of a Volost of Ujesds Rylsk in the Kursk Governorate , and on July 30, 1928 the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him.

During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from October 8, 1941 to September 2, 1943 . During the fighting as part of the Red Army's counter-offensive after the failure of the German Citadel company , the settlement was badly affected, so that the population fell by almost two thirds after the war.

In 1959 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	7179
1939	7082
1959	2647
1970	3990
1979	4953
1989	5578
2002	5050
2010	5349

Note: census data

traffic

The 38K-040 regional road runs through Glushkowo and branches off the 38K-017 coming from Kursk in the small town of Rylsk, 25 km to the north, and continues to the Tjotkino settlement in the far west of the Rajon on the Ukrainian border .

Almost ten kilometers southeast of the settlement is the station of the same name at kilometer 335 of the railway line Kiev  - Konotop ( Ukraine ) - Kursk, opened in 1868 , the Russian border station on this line.

Sons and daughters of the village

• Heorhij Tkachenko (1898–1993), Ukrainian kobsar and artist

Web links

• 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)