Kamenka (Pensa)

city Kamenka Каменка flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Kamenka mayor Nikolai Loschtschinin Founded 18th century City since 1951 surface 24  km² population 39,577 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1649 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84156 Post Code 44224x License Plate 58 OKATO 56 229 501 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 11 '  N , 44 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 11 '0 "  N , 44 ° 3' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of cities in Russia

View of Kamenka from Varvarovka village

Kamenka ( Russian Каменка ) is a city in Penza Oblast ( Russia ) with 39,577 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the western edge of the Volga plate about 75 km west of the oblast capital Penza on the Atmis , a left tributary of the Mokscha in the river system of the Volga .

Kamenka is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

The town lies on the 1874 opened railway Ryazhsk -Pensa- Sysran (Station Belinskaja ).

history

The village of Kamenka was established in the 18th century.

After an agricultural machinery plant was relocated from the western part of the Soviet Union to Kamenka after the beginning of the Second World War , the population grew rapidly, so that the place received the status of an urban-type settlement on June 15, 1944 and town charter on April 18, 1951.

Population development

year	Residents
1795	1,197
1897	3,409
1926	5,229
1939	8,265
1959	25,219
1970	30,067
1979	35,274
1989	40.134
2002	40,712
2010	39,577

Note: from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

The city has a local history museum, which is housed in an Art Nouveau bank building built between 1911 and 1913 . In addition, other buildings from this period, such as the post office from 1913 and the palace (1914) of Count Vladimir Vojeikow (1868–1942, the most influential landowner in the area, major general, commander of the palace guard Nicholas II , first president of the Russian Olympic Committee ).

economy

The largest plant in the city is the Agricultural Engineering Plant ( Belinskselmasch ), there is also a construction and food industry ( Atmis-sachar sugar factory , which was one of the largest in the Soviet Union when it opened in 1975).

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)

Web links

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Kamenka on the private website inpenza.ru (Russian)
• Kamenka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)