Kessowa Gora
Urban-type settlement
Kessowa Gora
Кесова Гора
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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.
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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)