Kurja (Altai Region, Kurjinski)

Village Kurja Курья Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon Kurjinski Founded 1749 population 3835 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 250  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38576 Post Code 658320 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 223 866 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 36 '  N , 82 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '0 "  N , 82 ° 17' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

Kurja ( Russian Курья ) is a village (selo) in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 3835 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 220 km as the crow flies south-southwest of the regional administration center Barnaul on the southern edge of the Voraltaebene (Predaltaiskaja rawnina) on the Loktewka , a left tributary of the Charysch .

Kurja is the administrative center of the Rajons Kurjinski and seat and only town in the rural community selsowet Kurjinski .

history

The village was founded in 1749. Kurja has been the center of a Rajon since 1924.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3750
1959	3441
1970	4083
1979	4269
1989	4394
2002	4292
2010	3835

Note: census data

traffic

Kurja by the regional road is R370, which in Pospelicha of the highway A349 Novoaltaysk  - Barnaul - Rubzowsk  - Kazakhstan branches limit and further over the Rajonzentren zmeinogorsk and Staroaleiskoje also leads to Kazakhstan border. In Kurja, a road branches off in an easterly direction via Krasnoschtschokowo and Petropavlowskoje to Smolenskoje south of Biysk .

The nearest train station on the Novosibirsk  - Barnaul - Semei line is in Pospelicha, 60 km away .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919–2013), weapons designer and lieutenant general

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)