Jelan (Volgograd)

Urban-type settlement Jelan Елань Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Rajon Jelan Founded 1691 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 14,833 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84452 Post Code 403730-403732 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 210 551 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 57 '  N , 43 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '0 "  N , 43 ° 44' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Jelan ( Russian Ела́нь ) is an urban-type settlement in the Volgograd Oblast ( Russia ) with 14,833 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the southern Russian steppe area , about 250 km as the crow flies north-northwest of Volgograd , in the extreme north of the oblast not far from the border with Saratov Oblast . Jelan is located at the confluence of the Jelan river with the Medveditsa tributary Tersa .

The place is the administrative center of the Jelan Rajon of the same name .

history

The place was founded towards the end of the 17th century by resettlers from "Little Russia" . The official founding year is 1691, when Tsar Peter the Great gave the boyar Lev Naryshkin half a million Dessjatinen (over 550,000  hectares ) of land in the still sparsely populated area.

As the center of an agricultural area, the place initially mainly had trade connections on the waterway to Rostov-on-Don , but then oriented itself more towards the trade centers of southern central Russia such as Jelez , Morschansk or Kolomna . After a temporary decline, the economy recovered, especially with the opening of the railway line from Tambov via Balashov to Kamyshin on the Volga through the town towards the end of the 19th century. Efforts to obtain city rights, however, were unsuccessful.

In the 1920s, Jelan became the center of a newly created district as part of an administrative reform, and in 1959 it received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	11,541
1959	13,873
1970	15,255
1979	15,252
1989	14,935
2002	15,147
2010	14,833

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Jelan the classical church of the delivery of the Holy Spirit (Russian Духосошественская церковь / Duchososchestwenskaja zerkow ) from 1820 and the building of the Zemstvo hospital from 1898 have been preserved. There has been a local museum since 1961 .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Jelan as the center of an agricultural area, companies in the food industry predominate. There is also a factory for agricultural equipment and construction companies.

The settlement is located on the Tambov - Kamyshin railway line (station name Jelan-Kamyshinskaya ; route kilometers 293), which is operated on this section by the Southeast Railway . Road connection exists to Novoanninski, 90 km to the south-west, on the M6 , which connects Moscow with Volgograd and Astrakhan , and to the south-east along the Tersa to Kamyshin.

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} Jelan on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)