Kantemirowka

Urban-type settlement Kantemirowka Кантемировка flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Voronezh Rajon Kantemirowski head Anatoly Gavrilenko Founded 1742 Earlier names Konstantinowka-Kantemirowka Urban-type settlement since 1973 population 11,943 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47367 Post Code 396730, 396732 License Plate 36, 136 OKATO 20 219 551 Website www.kantemirovka-admin.ru Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 41 '  N , 39 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '0 "  N , 39 ° 51' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Voronezh Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Kantemirowka ( Russian Кантеми́ровка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Voronezh Oblast ( Russia ) with 11,943 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located 220 km south of the Voronezh Oblast Administrative Center, a good 10 km from the state border with Ukraine . It is located on the river of the same name, which flows a few kilometers north into the upper reaches of the right tributary of the Don, Bogucharka .

Kantemirowka is the administrative center of the Rajons Kantemirowski and seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Kantemirowka, which also includes the settlement to the train station and the hamlet Gartmaschewka (Khutor) Dalni Rossochowaty include (both about 12 km south-east).

history

The place was founded in 1742 as Sloboda , which was initially named Konstantinowka-Kantemirowka after the owners of the surrounding lands Dimitrie Cantemir (Russian: Dmitri Kantemir) and his son Konstantin . The name was later shortened.

In 1928 Kantemirowka became the administrative seat of a Rajon.

During the Second World War , Kantemirowka was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from June 10 to December 19, 1942 . During the reconquest by the Red Army there was bitter fighting; As a result, a street and a bridge in Saint Petersburg and a tank division of the Red Army were named after the place, after the latter in turn a street in Moscow and a station on the Samoskvorezkaya line of the Moscow Metro .

Since 1973 Kantemirowka has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1774	2,385
1939	9,471
1959	8,396
1970	11,621
1979	12,262
1989	13,465
2002	12,949
2010	11,943

Note: census data from 1959

traffic

Kantemirovka is located at kilometer 850 of the Moscow - Voronezh - Rostov-on-Don railway, which opened in 1871 and has been electrified since 1963 .

The regional road 20K-W38-0, which connects Voronezh with the border with Ukraine (formerly R194, in Ukraine further in the direction of Luhansk ) runs past the settlement to the west . In a north-easterly direction, the 20K-W11-0 leads to Boguchar, just under 60 km away on the M4 Don federal highway from Moscow via Rostov-on-Don to Novorossiysk .

Personalities

• Yevhen Pluschnyk (1898–1936), writer
• Alexander Efimov (1923–2012), Marshal of the Aviators

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. ↑ Ефимов Александр Николаевич , warheroes.ru (Russian)

Web links

• Municipality website (Russian)