Krestzy (Novgorod)
Urban-type settlement
Krestzy
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Krestzy ( Russian Кре́стцы ) is an urban-type settlement and former city in the Novgorod Oblast in Russia with 8,717 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 80 km as the crow flies southeast of the Veliky Novgorod Oblast Administrative Center . It is located on the left Msta creek Cholowa .
Kresttsy is the administrative center of the Rajons Krestezki as well as the seat of the municipality Krestezkoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the (immediately northeast subsequently) within a radius of up to 10 km villages Beryozka, Chartschewnja, Dolgi boron, Dolgi Most, Yamskaya Sloboda, Mokry Ostrow, pristane, Staraya Bolotnitsa and Stukowja belong.
history
The place was first mentioned in a Novgorod Chronicle in 1393 . On August 24th, July / 4th September 1776 greg. it was raised as the administrative seat of a Ujesd of the Lieutenancy, later of the Novgorod Governorate to the city. From December 12th July / 23 December 1796 greg. until April 24th jul. / May 6, 1802 greg. the Ujesd was temporarily dissolved.
In the 19th century, the city developed relatively slowly, and on May 2, 1922 the Ujesd was dissolved again and its area was annexed to the Ujesd Waldai . In 1926 Krestzy lost its town charter and was considered a village (selo) until it was given the status of an urban-type settlement on November 9, 1938. As early as 1927, the place was again the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 2,596 |
1939 | 5,246 |
1959 | 8,502 |
1970 | 9,749 |
1979 | 10.190 |
1989 | 10,464 |
2002 | 9,963 |
2010 | 8,717 |
Note: census data
traffic
To the east, Krestzy is bypassed by the federal trunk road M10 Rossija Moscow - Saint Petersburg . In an initially north-easterly direction, the 49K-06 regional road branches off via Okulowka to Borowitschi .
In the settlement was the terminus of a 57 km long branch line from Valdai on the connection Bologoje - Pskow . It was put into operation between 1917 and 1926 as a branch line of the St. Petersburg - Novgorod - Smolensk - Oryol railway, which was planned during the First World War , but was never built continuously , and closed in 2011 after it had previously only been used for sporadic freight traffic for a long time.
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)