The city is located about 110 km west of the republic capital Saransk on the Mokscha , a right tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .
Krasnoslobodsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
history
The place has been known since 1571 as a settlement belonging to an Ostrog Krasnaya Sloboda , which received city rights in 1780 under its current name.
↑ 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)