Kiknur

Urban-type settlement Kiknur Кикнур Federal district Volga Oblast Kirov Rajon Kiknurski Founded 1555 Earlier names Oschminskoye Voznesenskoye Urban-type settlement since 1966 population 4970 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83341 Post Code 612300 License Plate 43 OKATO 33 216 551 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 18 '  N , 47 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 18 '15 "  N , 47 ° 12' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kirov Oblast

Kiknur ( Russian Ки́кнур ) is an urban-type settlement in Kirov Oblast in Russia with 4970 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 200 km as the crow flies southwest of the Kirov Oblast Administrative Center on the right bank of the left Volga tributary Great Kokshaga (Great Kokshaga), directly above the confluence of the right tributary Waschtranga.

Kiknur is the administrative center of the Rajons Kiknurski and seat of the municipality Kiknurskoje gorodskoje posselenije, (east 2 km) which also includes the villages of Bolshoye Scharygino, Jermolkino (3 km northwest), Kuknur (4 km south), Kokschaga (northeast then) Krjaschewo (9 km north), Maloje Scharygino (2 km southeast), Orlowo (5 km northeast), Pelesnur (2 km northeast), Putinowo (2 km south), Turussinowo (9 km northeast) and Urma (5 km northeast).

history

A place in the place of today's settlement was first mentioned in 1555 as a village inhabited by Mari . From the 18th century it belonged to the Ujesd Jaransk of the Vyatka governorate . Alternatively, the Russian names Oschminskoje and - until the early 20th century -  Voznesenskoje (after the local Vosnesenskoje church, from Russian Vosnessenije for " Ascension of Christ ") were in use at times .

On July 14, 1929, Kiknur became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. Since 1966 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1716
1970	4130
1979	5841
1989	6654
2002	5410
2010	4970

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road 33R-015 passes to the north of the settlement and branches off 40 km east in Jaransk from the federal trunk road R176 Vyatka Cheboksary  - Yoshkar-Ola  - Kirov - Syktyvkar . The regional road continues to the border with Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , about 30 km away from Kiknur, from there as 22R-0159 via Shachunja and Semjonow to Nizhny Novgorod .

The nearest train station is in Jaransk, the end point of a route from Zelenodolsk near Kazan via Yoshkar-Ola.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Boris Kordemski (1907–1999), mathematician

Web links

• Official web portal of the Rajons Municipal Council (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)