Kovernino

Urban-type settlement Kowernino Ковернино Federal district Volga Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Rajon Kowerninski First mention 1712 Urban-type settlement since 1961 population 6892 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83157 Post Code 606570 License Plate 52, 152 OKATO 22 234 551 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 8 '  N , 43 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 7 '30 "  N , 43 ° 48' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Kovernino ( Russian Ковернино́ ) is an urban-type settlement and former city in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia with 6,892 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located about 90 km as the crow flies north of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Administrative Center on the left Volga tributary Usola .

Kowernino is the administrative center of the Rajons Kowerninski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotchi possjolok Kowernino.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1712, when the resettlement village Rybnowskije pochinki , which is also on the territory of the present-day settlement, arose not far from the ukase of Tsar Peter the Great . Kovernino became the seat of a Volost , which initially belonged to the Ujesd Jurjewez of the Nizhny Novgorod governorate , from the 1770s to the Ujesd Makarjew of the Kostroma governorate (from 1796 Kostroma governorate ). From 1918 to 1922 the place was the administrative seat of a Ujesd and thus formally received city rights.

From 1922 Kovernino was again considered a village, now in Ujesd Semjonow of the Nizhny Novgorod governorate. On June 10, 1929, it became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1961 Kovernino received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1092
1939	2764
1959	3661
1970	5212
1979	6184
1989	7212
2002	6875
2010	6892

Note: census data

traffic

From Kowernino the regional road 22K-0015 leads to the well 50 km south of the dam near the Gorkier reservoir located Gorodez where connectors facing the Nizhny Novgorod is. The 22K-0016 runs in a south-easterly direction to Semjonow, also a good 50 km away, on the 22R-0159 Nizhny Novgorod - Shakhunya .

In Zavolzhye on Gorodez opposite bank of the Volga, end a stretch of Nizhny Novgorod and in Semyonov on the route Moscow  - Nizhny Novgorod - Kotelnich are the nearest train stations.

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)