Kurja (Altai Region, Kurjinski)
Village
Kurja
Курья
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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)