Kumjony

Urban-type settlement Kumjony Кумёны Federal district Volga Oblast Kirov Rajon Kumjonski Founded 1678 Urban-type settlement since 1965 population 4827 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 170  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83343 Post Code 613400 License Plate 43 OKATO 33 220 551 Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 6 '  N , 49 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 6 '30 "  N , 49 ° 54' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kirov Oblast

Kumjony ( Russian Кумёны ) is an urban-type settlement in Kirov Oblast in Russia with 4827 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 60 km as the crow flies south-south-east of the Kirov Oblast Administrative Center . It is located on the right bank of the eponymous river Bolshaya Kumjona (Great Kumjona), which flows into the Vyatka via the Bystriza .

Kumyony is the administrative center of Kumyonski Rajon and the seat of the municipality of Kumjonskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the villages of Babkinzy (3 km north), Korepovshchina (4 km south), Morjany (6 km south) and Spasskaya (2 km south).

history

The founding year of the place is 1678, when the first wooden church was built there. From the 18th century it belonged to the Ujesd Vjatka of the Vyatka governorate .

On January 23, 1935, Kumjony became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1965 the place received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	681
1959	1603
1970	3730
1979	5394
1989	5588
2002	5249
2010	4827

Note: census data

traffic

On the eastern edge of the settlement runs the regional road 33R-002, which begins not far from the Kirov oblast center and continues through the Suna , Nolinsk , Urschum and Malmysh districts further south to Vyatskije Polyany .

The nearest train station is Posdino, about 50 km to the north, on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the southern part of Kirov, which was independent as the city of Novovyatsk until 1989 .

Web links

• Official website of the district administration (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)