Koschewnikowo (Tomsk)
Village
Koschewnikowo
Кожевниково
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Koschewnikowo ( Russian Коже́вниково ) is a village (selo) in Tomsk Oblast in Russia with 8174 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 70 km as the crow flies southwest of the Tomsk Oblast Administrative Center in the southeastern part of the West Siberian lowlands . It is located on the left bank of the Ob , which forms two arms about half a kilometer wide with the island of Bolshoi Ostrow ("Big Island") in between.
Koschewnikowo is the administrative center of the Koschewnikowski Raion and the seat of the rural community Koschewnikowskoje selskoje Posselenije, which also includes the villages of Astrachanzewo (24 km north-northeast) and Kireevsk (14 km northeast), both on the opposite, right bank of the Ob.
history
The village was founded in 1681 and is named after two of the first settlers, the Cossacks Afanassi and Stepan Koschewnikow. A church was built in 1715. An increased population growth began due to resettlers after the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861.
On June 20, 1930, the administrative seat of the Voronowski rajon, which had existed since December 9, 1925, was relocated from the village of Voronowo, 30 km south on the left Ob bank, to Koschewnikowo, the raion was renamed and enlarged at the same time.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 920 |
1939 | 3374 |
1959 | 5126 |
1970 | 6156 |
1979 | 6935 |
1989 | 8567 |
2002 | 7947 |
2010 | 8174 |
Note: census data
traffic
Koschewnikowo is located on regional road 69K-14, which branches off about 30 km north of Melnikowo from 69K-2 Tomsk - Kolpaschewo and continues south up the Ob to the border with Novosibirsk Oblast, which is a good 70 km away ; there further than 50K-12 via Kolyvan to Novosibirsk . The road is one of the two road links between the Tomsk and Novosibirsk oblast centers.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Konstantin Rausch (* 1990), German footballer of Russian-German descent
- Sergei Schernow (* 1985), summer biathlete
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)