Kessowa Gora

Urban-type settlement Kessowa Gora Кесова Гора coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Kessowogorski First mention 1238 Urban-type settlement since 1975 population 3877 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 170  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48274 Post Code 171470 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 226 551 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 35 '  N , 37 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 34 '45 "  N , 37 ° 17' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

Kessowa Gora ( Russian Ке́сова Гора́ ) is an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast in Russia with 3877 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 120 km as the crow flies northeast of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center on the right bank of the left Volga tributary Kaschinka .

Kesova Gora is the administrative center of the Rajons Kessowogorski . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Kessowa Gora and the seat of the rural municipality Kessovskoye selskoje posselenije, to which 40 villages belong, but not Kessowa Gora itself.

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  Town center

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  Nikolai Church (1799)

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  The Kaschinka at Kessowa Gora

history

The place was first mentioned in 1238, initially in the form of Kiassowa Gora; the first part of the name is of Finno-Ugric origin. From the 18th century it belonged to the Ujesd Kashin of the Tver Governorate and became the seat of a Volost .

On July 12, 1929, Kessowa Gora became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1975 the place received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1119
1939	3207
1959	2138
1970	2665
1979	3392
1989	4208
2002	4076
2010	3877

Note: census data

traffic

Kessowa Gora has a station at kilometer 237 of the railway line Moscow  - Kimry ( Sawjolowo station ) - Pestowo (-  Saint Petersburg ) opened on this section in 1899 .

The regional road 28K-0096 runs through the settlement, which connects the neighboring districts to the northwest and southeast of Beschezk (connection in the direction of Vyshny Volochok ) and Kashin (connection in the direction of Kalyasin  - Sergiev Posad ).

Web links

Commons : Kessowa Gora  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 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)