Lebjaschje (Kurgan)

Urban-type settlement Lebyashye Лебяжье Federal district Ural Oblast Kurgan Rajon Lebjaschjewski Founded 1848 Urban-type settlement since 1945 population 6452 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 135  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35237 Post Code 641500 License Plate 45 OKATO 37 218 551 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 17 ′  N , 66 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 16 ′ 30 ″  N , 66 ° 29 ′ 45 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kurgan Oblast

Lebjaschje ( Russian Лебя́жье ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kurgan Oblast in Russia with 6452 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located about 75 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the Kurgan Oblast Administrative Center in the southwestern part of the West Siberian lowlands .

Lebjaschje is the administrative center of Lebjaschjewski Rajon . The settlement is the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Lebjaschjewski possowet, which also includes the village Verkhneglubokoje (a good 2 km north) and the settlements Koopswerpromchosa (1 km south) and Kravzewo (12 km west).

history

The village Lebjaschjewskoje was founded in 1848 about 6 km northwest of today's settlement on Lebjaschje Lake (from Russian lebed for swan ), today it bears the name Lebjaschje Pervoje (Lebjaschje 1-je). In the 1890s the Trans-Siberian Railway passed by and a train station opened on August 24, 1894. The settlement at the station was initially called Lebjaschje Wtoroje (Lebjaschje 2-je), ie "Second Lebjaschye". In 1922 it became the administrative seat of a Volost , on March 9, 1924 a Rajons named after him. Since January 10, 1945 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7078
1959	8784
1970	9062
1979	9077
1989	8039
2002	6891
2010	6383

Note: census data

traffic

In Lebjaschje, the Lebjaschja-Sibirskaja station is located on the original route and today's southern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway Samara  - Chelyabinsk  - Omsk (line kilometer 2443 from Moscow ), which was opened continuously in 1896 and has been electrified on this section since 1956 . In the settlement, the regional road 37K-0010 begins in the northern neighboring district of Mokroussowo and further to the neighboring Tyumen Oblast . A good 15 km north of Lebjaschje it crosses the federal trunk road R254 Irtysh (formerly M51) from Chelyabinsk via Omsk to Novosibirsk .

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)