Kulunda (place)

Village Kulunda Кулунда Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon Kulunda head Alexander Lukyanov Founded 1917 Village since 1992 population 14,527 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38566 Post Code 658920-658924 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 222 860 001 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 34 '  N , 78 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 34 '0 "  N , 78 ° 57' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

List of large settlements in Russia

Kulunda ( Russian Кулунда́ ) is a large village in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 14,527 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the western part of the Kulunda steppe , in the southeast of the West Siberian lowlands . It is located about 350 kilometers west of the regional capital Barnaul and 20 kilometers from the border with Kazakhstan .

Kulunda is the administrative center of the Kulunda Rajon of the same name .

history

The place was created in 1917 in connection with the settlement and reclamation of the Kulunda steppe .

One of the station Tatarskaya the Trans-Siberian Railway outgoing railway line started in 1914 and 1917 to Slavgorod completed, was extended in 1924 to around 56 km to Kulunda. In the same year the building was continued in a westerly direction to Pavlodar (today Kazakhstan). With the opening of the Barnaul – Kulunda connection in 1953, this section became part of the southern Siberian parallel line to the Transsib, and Kulunda thus became a railway junction.

The place received (before 1959) the status of an urban-type settlement , but lost it again in 1992.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3,780
1959	14.101
1970	15,264
1979	14,853
1989	16,478
2002	15,466
2010	14,527

Note : census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Kulunda is the center of an important agricultural area with various companies in the food industry. There are also companies in the construction and building materials industry.

The place is an important traffic junction. This is where the Barnaul – Pavlodar and Tatarskaya – Karassuk – Malinowoje Osero railway lines intersect, as well as the R371 regional roads from Aleisk to the Kazakh border and on to Pavlodar and Rubzowsk – Karassuk. A road from Kulunda via Blagoweschtschenka to Rebricha or Kamen am Ob opens up the central part of the Kulunda steppe.

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)
2. ↑ G. Afonina: Kratkie svedenija o razvitii otečestvennich železnich dorog s 1838 po 1990 g. MPS (Ministry of Transport Infrastructures), Moscow 1996 ( Brief information on the development of the national railways from 1838 to 1990 ; Russian).
3. ^ 1959 census data ( Memento of November 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (RSFSR: Regions)
4. ↑ Changes in the administrative-territorial structure of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the years 1989–2002 on the official website for the 2002 census (Russian)

Web links

• Kulunda Raion and Village on Altai Region Administration website (Russian)