Kowylkino

city Kowylkino Ковылкино ( Russian ) Лашма ( Mokshan ) coat of arms Federal district Volga republic Mordovia Rajon Kowylkino Founded 1892 City since 1960 surface 41  km² population 21,307 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 520 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83453 Post Code 431350-431355 License Plate 13, 113 OKATO 89 410 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 2 '  N , 43 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '0 "  N , 43 ° 55' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Situation in Mordovia

List of cities in Russia

Kowylkino ( Russian Ковылкино , Mokshan Лашма , Laschma ) is a city in the Republic of Mordovia ( Russia ) with 21,307 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 100 km southwest of the republic capital Saransk on the Mokscha , a right tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

Kowylkino is administratively directly subordinate to the republic and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

history

In place of today's town, the village of Laschma was built in the 17th century at the latest . In 1703 it came into the possession of a Tatar prince and was called Kaschajewo for some time after this , and later Voskressenskaya Lashma . 1892 was railway line Moscow - Ruzayevka - Sysran the Moscow-Kazan Railway passed nearby. The station and the settlement around it were named Arapowo after a local landowner . Station settlement and old village finally merged and were given the current name in 1919 (after a member of the People's Commissariat for Transport , S. Kowylkin). In 1960 the place received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,093
1959	10,484
1970	17,300
1979	19,996
1989	21,615
2002	21,873
2010	21.307

Note: census data

sons and daughters of the town

• Roman Rasskasow (* 1979), walker

Web links

• Kowylkino on mojgorod.ru (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)