Konoschski rajon

Rajon Konoschski rajon Коношский муниципальный район coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Arkhangelsk Administrative center Konosha (urban-type settlement) surface 8459  km² population 26,106 inhabitants (as of 2010) Population density 3.1 inhabitants / km² Boroughs 1 Cities / SsT 0/1 Rural communities / villages 7/161 Head of the Rajons Oleg Gennadjewitsch Reutov Rajon founded 1935 Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81858 Postcodes 164000-164059 License Plate 29 OKATO 11 222 OKTMO 11 622 Website www.konosha.ru Geographical location of the administrative center Coordinates 60 ° 58 ′  N , 40 ° 14 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 58 ′  N , 40 ° 14 ′  E Konosha Konoschski rajon: Location in Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast within Russia

The Konoschski rajon ( Russian Ко́ношский муниципа́льный райо́н / Konoschski munizipalny rajon ) is an administrative unit within the Arkhangelsk Oblast , Russia . It is located south of the Oblast capital Arkhangelsk . The administrative center is the urban-type settlement Konosha .

geography

Konozhsky rajon is located in the southwest of Arkhangelsk Oblast on the border of Vologda Oblast . In the west of the Rajon borders the Kargopolski rajon , north of the Njandomski rajon and east of the Welski rajon . The area of ​​the Rajon is 8459 km².

history

The area of ​​today's Konoschski rajon was originally settled by Finnish-Ugric tribes . Slavic tribes only settled here towards the end of the 10th century . In the Middle Ages, the region, like many other parts of northern Russia, served as a place of exile. From the beginning of the 19th century, the present territory of the Rajon was under the administration of the governorates of Olonets, Vologda and Novgorod.

Railway station in Konosha

The region was developed with the construction of the Vologda - Arkhangelsk railway between 1894 and 1897 through the area. The Konoscha train station was built in 1898 and developed into a larger settlement in the years that followed.

The Konoschski rajon was founded on July 15, 1929 as part of the Njandomski okrug ( Няндомский округ ), the Northern Krai . As early as July 31, 1931, the Rajon was dissolved again in the course of an administrative reform. In March 1935, the Konoschski rajon was finally re-established. At that time, the Rajon consisted of 20 village soviets ( сельсовет ) with 20,859 inhabitants. In 1936 it became part of the Northern Oblast and finally on September 23, 1937 part of the newly founded Arkhangelsk Oblast.

In the 1930s, kulaks and other politically persecuted people were increasingly settled in the Konoschski rajon. There they lived in special settlements ( спецпоселение / Spezposselenije ), in which they had to do forced labor. In August 1937 the Gulag "KargopolLag" ( Каргопольлаг ) was established in the region, the administration of which was located in Kargopol until 1940, later in Jerzewo in the Konoschski rajon. Up to 30,100 prisoners were detained in “KargopolLag”, who were mainly used for forest work, logging and wood processing. In addition, there was the "NORTHERN DWINA-ITL" camp in Welski rajon, whose prisoners were used in 1940 for the construction of the Konoscha - Kotlas - Koschwa railway lines on the Pechora Railway .

Population development

The following overview shows the development of the population of the Konoschski rajon.

year	Residents
1939	42,898
1959	55,880
1970	49,584
1979	44,323
1989	42,136
2002	31,067
2010	26,106

Note: census data

Administrative division

The Rajon is divided into eight municipalities ( муниципальное образование ), one of which is an urban municipality ( городское поселение ) and seven rural municipalities ( сельское поселение ). Within the Rajon there is only one urban-type settlement with Konosha as the administrative center. 26,106 inhabitants live in Konoschski rajon (as of October 14, 2010), which corresponds to 2.2% of the population of Arkhangelsk Oblast.

local community Russian name Residents (October 14, 2010) Administrative center City of Konoshskoye Коношское городское поселение 13,281 Konosha Rural commune Volozhskoye Волошское сельское поселение 1,178 Voloshka Rural municipality of Wochtomskoje Вохтомское сельское поселение 1,074 Fominskaya Rural commune of Jerzewskoye Ерцевское сельское поселение 4,325 Jerzewo Rural municipality of Klimovskoye Климовское сельское поселение 498 Klimovskoye Rural municipality of Mirny сельское поселение «Мирный» 878 Mirny Podyushskoye commune Подюжское сельское поселение 3,370 Podjuga Tavrengskoye rural community Тавреньгское сельское поселение 1,502 Ponomarevskaya

economy

Railway transport and the wood processing industry are among the most important branches of the Konoschski rajon. Agriculture, in particular the dairy industry and livestock, also plays an important role. The paper and pulp industry is also located in the region. The unemployment rate in 2012 was 2.3%, above the average rate of 1.5% in Arkhangelsk Oblast. The average monthly salary in the 1st quarter of 2011 for large and medium-sized organizations was 21057 rubles, 15.2% lower than the regional average of 24 819 rubles.

traffic

The railroad is the main form of transport in the Rajon. The road network of the Rajon is weak. The national M8 trunk road can only be reached via the city of Welsk in the Rajon of the same name.

railroad

The Konosha settlement is an important railway junction. The main line of the Northern Railway on the Yaroslavl - Vologda - Arkhangelsk line runs through them . In addition, Konoscha is the starting point of the Pechora railway line Konoscha - Vorkuta, which opened in 1940 .

In addition to the current route network, there were other railway lines within the Rajon with predominantly industrial importance (especially for the wood industry), but these have largely been discontinued. These routes include:

• The railway line Wandysch - Voloshka River was built in the late 1930s as a transport route for that of prisoners of the Gulag "KargopolLag" pulp mill №5 built and joined the situated on the railway line Konoschka Arkhangelsk place Wandysch with about 10 km from the settlement Voloshka River .
• The Dorians narrow-gauge railway ( Дорская узкоколейная железная дорога ), which from 1951 to 2006 from the settlement Voloshka River consisted of and was used for the transport of timber.
• The Melentjewski Narrow- Gauge Railway ( Мелентьевская узкоколейная железная дорога ) existed from the Melentjewski settlement until the 1990s
• The Kwarsonsk Narrow Gauge Railway ( Кварзеньгская узкоколейная железная дорога ) existed from the Podjuga settlement to Kwarsonsk and, after its expansion, formed a joint network with the Pastuchovsk narrow-gauge railway .
• The Pastukhovsk Narrow Gauge Railway ( Пастуховская узкоколейная железная дорога ) was based on Zvenyachi and was discontinued between 1995 and 2005.
• The Konoscha - Mirny railway line , which was built in the 1930s and covered a network of 16 kilometers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History Konoschas on pomorland.info ; Reviewed March 31, 2010
2. ^ History of Konoshas on the official website of the Konoschski rajon ; Reviewed October 5, 2012
3. ↑ ^{a b} Gosudarstvennyj archive Archangel'skoj oblasti. Tom 1. Putevoditel 'v dvuch tomach. ( Memento of July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Arkhangelsk 2000, ISBN 5-85879-052-6 , pp. 264-273; Reviewed October 5, 2012
4. ↑ Information about the Rajon on the official website of the Konoschski rajon ; Reviewed October 5, 2012
5. ↑ Nikolaj Sergeev: Na ostrove smerti "Kargopol'lag" . Kargopol'e December 12, 2007 ; Reviewed October 5, 2012
6. ↑ ^{a b} Article about the “KargopolLag” on gulag.memorial.de ; Reviewed October 5, 2012
7. ↑ Article about the “NORTHERN DWINA-ITL” on gulag.memorial.de ; Reviewed October 5, 2012
8. ↑ 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 ( Memento from May 23, 2013 on WebCite ) (PDF; 6.0 MB), pp. 12–209; 11 (PDF; 17.5 MB), pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Čislennost 'naselenija po municipal'nym obrazovanijam i naselennym punktam Archangel'skoj oblasti, vključaja Neneckij avtonomnyj okru Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 Goda (population number of municipal structure and places the Arkhangelsk including the Autonomous circles Nenets results of the All-Russian 2010 census) side no longer available , search in web archives: table (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of Arkhangelsk Oblast)
9. ↑ story on the official website of Konoschski rajon ; Reviewed March 31, 2010
10. ^ Konosha on the official website of Arkhangelsk Oblast ( memorial from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ); Reviewed October 5, 2012
11. ↑ Pomorskaja ėnciklopedija: Tom 1 Istorija Archangel'skogo Severa . Pomorskij gosudarstvennyj universitet, Arkhangelsk 2001, ISBN 5-88086-147-3 , p. 358
12. ↑ The Dorer Narrow Gauge Railway on the website of Sergei Bolashenko ; Reviewed March 31, 2010
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Overview of the railway lines in Arkhangelsk Oblast on Sergei Bolashenko's website ; Reviewed March 31, 2010
14. ↑ Konoscha – Mirny railway line on Sergei Bolashenko's website ; Reviewed March 31, 2010

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The information relates to Arkhangelsk Oblast without the Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Web links

• Official site of the Konoshsky District (Russian)