Ivya

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Urban-type settlement
Ivya
Ивня
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Federal district Central Russia
Oblast Belgorod
Rajon Ivya
First mention 1762
Urban-type settlement since 1971
population 7933 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Time zone UTC + 3
Telephone code (+7) 47243
Post Code 309110
License Plate 31
OKATO 14 238 551
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 3 '  N , 36 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '0 "  N , 36 ° 7' 0"  E
Ivya (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Ivya (Belgorod Oblast)
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Location in Belgorod Oblast

Iwnja ( Russian Ивня ) is an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 7,933 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is about 60 kilometers as the crow flies north-west of the Belgorod Oblast Administrative Center , on the upper reaches of the Ivanja river of the same name, a left tributary of the Psjol . The name of river and place goes back to iwa , one of the Russian names for white willow .

Ivja is the administrative center of the Ivya Rajon of the same name .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1762. In the 19th century the estate belonged to the son of the writer and historian Nikolai Karamsin , and later to the Count and Major General Nikolai Kleinmichel. During this time a sugar factory, a stud farm, a vodka distillery and other businesses were built.

On July 30, 1928, Ivya became the administrative center of a Rajon. During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from October 27, 1941 to February 20, 1943 . In 1971 Iwnja received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year Residents
1939 2542
1959 2088
1970 5607
1979 5905
1989 7236
2002 7725
2010 7933

Note : census data

Economy and Infrastructure

There are food processing plants in Ivya.

The M2 federal trunk road runs about ten kilometers east of the settlement from Moscow to Belgorod and on to the Ukrainian border in the direction of Kharkiv . A regional road branches off there via Ivnya into the western part of the Oblast around Rakitnoye . Since 1988 Iwnja has been the terminus of a railway line (freight traffic only) from Proletarsky ( Gotnja station ), where there is a connection to lines in the direction of Belgorod and Brjansk as well as Sumy and Kharkiv in Ukraine.

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)

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