Kolyschlei

Urban-type settlement Kolyshlei Колышлей flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Kolyschleiski Founded 1896 Urban-type settlement since 1957 population 8312 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84146 Post Code 442830 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 233 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 42 '  N , 44 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 42 '0 "  N , 44 ° 32' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

Kolyschlei ( Russian Колышле́й ) is an urban-type settlement in the Penza Oblast in Russia with 8,312 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is 60 km away in a straight line south-southwest of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Pensa , a few kilometers from the right bank of the left Khopyor River -Nebenflusses Kolyschlei removed.

Kolyschlei is the administrative center of the Rajons Kolyschleiski and seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotchi Possjolok Kolyschlei, (6 km northeast) which also includes the settlements Jagodny and (4 km to the southwest) are Rodnikowski.

history

The place was created in 1896 as a station settlement during the construction of the railway line ( Charkow  -) Balaschow  - Penza and was named after the river there.

On July 23, 1928 Kolyschlei became the administrative seat of the newly created Rajons named after him. On November 27, 1957, it received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2047
1959	5543
1970	5034
1979	7021
1989	8995
2002	8483
2010	8312

Note: census data

traffic

Kolyschlei has a train station at kilometer 198 of the Balaschow - Penza railway line, which opened on this section in 1896 and has been electrified since 1965 .

The settlement is on the regional road 58K-359, which  branches off the federal trunk road R208 Tambov - Penza near Penza , largely follows the railway line and continues via Serdobsk to Bekowo in the extreme southwest of the oblast. In an easterly direction there is a connection to the federal trunk road R158 Nizhny Novgorod  - Penza - Saratov, a good 30 km away .

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)