Yekaterinoslavka (Amur)

Selo Ekaterinoslavka Екатеринославка Federal district far East Oblast Amur Rajon Oktyabrsky Founded 1894 Selo since 1991 population 9723 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41652 Post Code 676630-676631 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 238 803 001 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 23 '  N , 129 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '30 "  N , 129 ° 6' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

Yekaterinoslawka ( Russian Екатериносла́вка ) is a large village (Selo) in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 9,723 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the Seja-Bureja plain , about 120 km as the crow flies east of the Oblast capital Blagoveschensk on the upper reaches of the river Ivanovka, which flows into the Seja near Blagoveschensk .

Yekaterinoslavka is the administrative center of Oktyabrsky Rajon ( October Rajon , named after the October Revolution ).

history

The village was founded on October 15, 1894 by resettlers from the Yekaterinoslav Governorate (around today's city of Dnipro in Ukraine ) and named after him. In 1914 the Amur Railway ran through the town, now part of the Trans-Siberian Railway .

As part of an administrative reform, Yekaterinoslavka became the administrative center of a newly created district in 1957 and an urban-type settlement in 1964 . In 1991 the place was downgraded again to a rural settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1901	525
1915	1,239
1939	3,686
1959	4,309
1970	6,921
1979	8,056
1989	9,197
2002	10,584
2010	9,723

Note: census data from 1959

Culture and sights

A public history and local museum has existed in Yekaterinoslavka since 1988 .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Yekaterinoslavka, as the center of an agricultural area, there are several food processing plants.

The place is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway (7943 km from Moscow ). The M58 Amur trunk road bypasses the town a few kilometers to the north. From this the regional road R 465 branches off in a south-westerly direction via Tambowka to Konstantinowka on the Amur , two further district administrative centers.

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} Yekaterinoslavka on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Jekaterinoslawka ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Rajon Administration website  
4. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)

Web links

• Official website of Oktyabrsky Raion (Russian)