Krasnaya Yaruga

Urban-type settlement Krasnaya Yaruga Красная Яруга flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Krasnaya Yaruga First mention 1681 Urban-type settlement since 1958 population 8028 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47263 Post Code 309420 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 243 551 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 48 '  N , 35 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '0 "  N , 35 ° 39' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

Krasnaja Jaruga ( Russian Красная Яруга ) is an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 8028 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located around 70 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the Belgorod Oblast Administrative Center and a good ten kilometers from the border with Ukraine , not far from the Ilek River, a left tributary of the Psjol .

Krasnaya Yaruga is the administrative center of the Krasnaya Yaruga district of the same name .

history

The history of the place begins at the end of the 17th century, when farmers and Cossacks settled in the area of ​​what was then the southern border of the Russian Empire. The year of the first mention is given as 1681; According to other sources, it was founded in 1685 by order of Tsar Ivan V and co-ruling Pyotr Alexejewitsch .

As a result, the place was dominated by agriculture; In 1874 a sugar factory started production. In 1900 the Belgorod - Sumy railway line passed not far from the town, and in 1910 the Bryansk  - Charkow line a little further east, running in a north-south direction .

In 1928 Krasnaya Yaruga became the administrative center of a Rajon for the first time and remained so with interruptions from 1931 to 1934 and from 1962 to 1991, when the area belonged to the neighboring Rajon Rakitnoye .

During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from October 20, 1941 to February 19, 1943 . The sugar factory, which was destroyed in the war, was rebuilt elsewhere from 1948, started operations in 1950 and is still the most important company in the area today. In 1958 Krasnaya Yaruga received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5982
1959	8476
1970	8490
1979	7482
1989	7221
2002	7823
2010	8028

Note : census data

Economy and Infrastructure

In Krasnaya Yaruga there are mainly food industry companies. The Sweklowitschnaja station on the railway line from Belgorod to Sumy in the Ukraine is four kilometers southeast of the town center . A regional road follows the railway line.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Yevgeny Savchenko (born 1950), politician, governor of Belgorod Oblast since 1993

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)

Web links

• Krasnaya Yaruga Raion Administration website (Russian)