Ilowlja (place)

Urban-type settlement Ilowlya Ilovly Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Rajon Ilowlya Founded 1768 Earlier names Ilowlinskaja (1768–1961) Urban-type settlement since 1961 surface 13.27  km² population 11,255 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 848 inhabitants / km² Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84467 Post Code 403070 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 214 551 Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 18 ′  N , 43 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 15 ″  N , 43 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Ilowlja ( Russian Иловля ) is an urban-type settlement in the Volgograd Oblast ( Russia ) with 11,255 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the steppes of the southeastern European part of Russia on the left bank of the Ilowlja of the same name , which flows into the Don about 10 kilometers southwest . A desert-like sand dune area extends over 100 km² to the west of the village .

Ilowlja is the administrative center of the Ilowlja Rajons of the same name and is located about 75 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the city center of the Oblast capital Volgograd . The two hamlets of Kolotski (7 km south) and Pestschanka (7 km northeast) are also subordinate to the administration of the settlement.

history

A Cossack stanitsa named Ilowlinskaya , named after the river, was known on the left bank of the Don since 1672. Later it was moved to the right bank of the Don, in 1768 finally to the current location. In the course of the 19th century it was hit by catastrophes several times, such as cholera epidemics in 1830 and 1848, crop failures in 1833 and 1848, a devastating flood in 1849 and a major fire in 1862. Nevertheless, in the second half of the century it was one of the largest stalks in the area. She belonged to the Cossack region Oblast Woiska Donskowo ("Oblast of the Don Troops") and was located in its easternmost part, the "Second Don Department" (2-i Donskoi otdel) with an administrative center in the Stanitsa Nischnetschirskaja (today Nizhny Tschir).

The stanitsa was fought over during the Russian Civil War . On June 23, 1928 it became the administrative center of a Rajon as part of an administrative reform.

During the Second World War , the Red Army was able to stop the further advance of the German Wehrmacht north of Stalingrad on the Donbogen in front of Ilowlinskaya in August 1942; From the positions there, the troops on the left flank of the Don Front began their participation in Operation Uranus , which initiated the Battle of Stalingrad .

In 1961 the place was given the status of an urban-type settlement under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1861	8,264
1897	10,613
1939	2,929
1959	2,435
1970	5,278
1979	6.116
1989	10,295
2002	11,904
2010	11,255

Note: from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

Since 1982 exists in Ilowlja Museum of culture and everyday life of the Don Cossacks (Ilowlinski musei kultury i byta Donskich Kazakov) .

Economy and Infrastructure

Ilowlja is the center of an agricultural area with cultivation of grain, sunflowers and vegetables as well as cattle breeding. In addition to companies processing agricultural products, there are companies in the construction industry.

After the railway line ( Moscow  -) Grjasi  - Tsaritsyn (today Volgograd) had already passed north of the site in 1871, it was selected in 1942 as the connection point for the construction of the strategic line called "Volga Rochade" from Saratov to support the Red Army Stalingrad. Thus, the settlement now has the two train stations Ilowlja-1 on the route from Moscow (route km 981) and Ilowlja-2 on the route from Saratov (km 328) as well as a few kilometers east of the Kolotski stop, where both routes meet. The Saratov - Volgograd line has been electrified throughout since 2003 .

The M6 trunk road , which connects Moscow to Astrakhan via Volgograd, also passes north of the settlement .

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)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ilowlja on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Aleksandr Vorobʹëv: Ot Ėl ʹ tona do Urjupinska: poselenija Volgogradskoj oblasti . Stanica-2, Volgograd 2004, ISBN 5-93567-013-5 ( From Lake Elton to Urjupinsk: Settlements of the Volgograd Oblast ; Russian).
4. ↑ Article about the Stanitsa Ilowlinskaja in Donskije jeparchialnyje vedomosti ("News of the Don Eparchy ") from 1894
5. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)