Kastornoje

Urban-type settlement Kastornoje Касторное Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kursk Rajon Kastorensky First mention 1590 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 3848 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47157 Post Code 306700 License Plate 46 OKATO 38 214 551 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 50 '  N , 38 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '45 "  N , 38 ° 7' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kursk Oblast

Kastornoje ( Russian Касто́рное ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kursk Oblast in Russia with 3848 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 130 km as the crow flies east of the Kursk Oblast Administrative Center, almost 10 km from the border with Lipetsk Oblast on the left bank of the Olym .

Kastornoje is the administrative center of the Kastorensky Rajons and the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Kastornoje.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1590. As a result, he belonged to the Ujesd Zemlyansk of the Voronezh governorate .

During the Russian Civil War in autumn 1919 there was an important two-week battle between the Red Army (including units under Semyon Budyonny ) and white troops under Anton Denikin near Kastornoje .

On June 13, 1934, Kastornoje became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. During the Second World War , Kastornoje was again the scene of heavy fighting. After the place had been occupied by the German Wehrmacht in early July 1942 while advancing on Voronezh (see case Blau ), the Red Army succeeded in continuing the successful Ostrogoschsk-Rossosh operation in an attempt to capture large parts of the German 2nd Army west of Voronezh encircling, retaking the settlement on January 29, 1943.

Kastornoje has had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1959.

Population development

year	Residents
1859	1105
1897	2112
1939	3357
1959	3475
1970	3447
1979	3575
1989	4562
2002	4492
2010	3848

Note: from 1897 census data

traffic

At Kastornoje, the railway line Moscow  - Jelez  - Waluiki , which was opened on this section in 1897 and electrified since 1997 , crosses with the Kastornaya-Vostochnaja station ("Kastornaja Ost", centrally located) at kilometer 539 and the Kursk - Voronezh line opened in 1894 with the Kastornaya station -Kurskaja ("Kastornaja Kursker Bahnhof") at km 147, in the western part of the village.

The regional road 38K-012 runs through the settlement, which branches off 30 km southwest of the federal trunk road R298 Kursk - Voronezh - Borisoglebsk and continues a few kilometers north to the settlement of Tsvetochny . To the west, the 38K-016 follows the railway line via the Rajon centers of Kschensky , Cheremissinovo and Shchigry to Kursk.

Web links

• Official website of the district administration (Russian)

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)