Konstantinovka (Amur)

Village Konstantinovka Константиновка Federal district far East Oblast Amur Rajon Konstantinovsky Founded 1858 Earlier names Konstantinovskaya population 5329 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41639 Post Code 676980 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 230 824 001 Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 37 '  N , 127 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '0 "  N , 127 ° 59' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

Konstantinowka ( Russian Константи́новка ) is a village (selo) in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 5,329 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located about 80 km as the crow flies south-southeast of the Blagoveshchensk Oblast Administrative Center in the southern part of the Seja-Bureja plain . It is located on the left bank of the Amur's left arm. The Amur forms the border with the People's Republic of China . The larger, not permanently inhabited islands near and below Konstantinovka, called Werchnekonstantinowski and Konstantinowski in Russian, belong to the Amur Islands that are disputed between the two countries, but have been used jointly for several years on the basis of bilateral agreements. Immediately west of the village, a stream, also called Konstantinowka, flows into the Amur, a few kilometers above the larger Filinowka.

Konstantinovka is the administrative center of the Rajons Konstantinovsky and seat and only town in the rural community selsowet Konstantinovsky.

history

The village was founded by Cossacks as Stanitsa in 1858, in the year the Amur and Primorye regions were annexed to the Russian Empire according to the Treaty of Aigun , and named after the Russian Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolajewitsch (1827-1892) as Konstantinovskaya . The current form of the name is official from the 1920s.

Since 1944 Konstantinowka has been the center of a district that was spun off from neighboring Tambowski rajon, with the exception of the years 1963 to 1967, when the districts were temporarily reunited.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	2988
1959	3762
1970	4132
1979	5020
1989	6637
2002	5930
2010	5329

Note: census data

traffic

Konstantinovka is the terminus of at Jekaterinoslawka of the highway M58 Amur Chita  - Khabarovsk branching regional road R465, which the north adjacent well 50 km away Rajonzentrum Tambowka the R461 Blagoveshchensk - Raychikhinsk  - Nowobureiski crosses.

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)