Lev Tolstoy (place)

settlement Lev Tolstoy Лев Толстой Federal district Central Russia Oblast Lipetsk Rajon Lev Tolstovsky head Nikolai Kolachev Founded 1890 Earlier names (Stanzija) Astapowo (until 1918) Settlement since 2005 population 8,650 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47464 Post Code 399870 License Plate 48 OKATO 42 236 819 001 Website levtolstovsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 12 '  N , 39 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 12 '30 "  N , 39 ° 27' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Lipetsk Oblast

Lev Tolstoy ( Russian Лев Толсто́й ) is a settlement (possjolok) in the Lipetsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,650 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located about 70 kilometers as the crow flies north of the Lipetsk Oblast Administrative Center on the flat ridge that forms the watershed between the Don in the west, 20 km away, and its left tributary Voronezh, in the east, 35 km away .

Leo Tolstoy is the administrative center of the Rajons Lew Tolstowski and seat and only town in the rural community selsowet Lew Tolstowski.

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  railway station

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  Tolstoy Museum

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  Railway workers' houses in Bahnhofsstraße (Priwoksalnaja uliza)

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  Trinity Church (Troitskaya Zerkow)

history

The place was created in 1890 in connection with the construction of a train station for the construction of the line Bogoyawlensk (today Pervomaiski ) - Ranenburg (today Tschaplygin ) - Dankow and a branching off line to Lebedjan by the private Ryazan-Uralsk railway. The station was named after the village of Astapowo, five kilometers to the east, which has been known since the middle of the 17th century . A settlement was built around the station, also called Stanzija Astapowo ("Station Astapowo") to distinguish it from the village . With the extension of the lines beyond Dankow to Smolensk (opened continuously in 1899) and from Lebedjan to Jelez as well as the construction of a cross connection from Astapowo to Trojekurowo on the new route of the Ryazan-Uralsk Railway to Moscow Paveletsk station in 1898 the importance of the crossing station increased, and the station settlement grew rapidly.

The station and settlement were on the border between the Ujesden Dankow and Ranenburg in the extreme south of the Ryazan governorate . The place became famous when on November 7th ^July. / November 20, 1910 ^greg. the writer Lev Tolstoy died in the house of the station master Ivan Osolin. The station and location were named in honor of Tolstoy in November 1918, and a Tolstoy Museum, which still exists today, was opened in the station master's house.

In 1927 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement . With the creation of a Rajon named after him on July 30, 1928, Lev Tolstoy became its administrative seat; the Rajon initially belonged to the Central Black Earth Oblast (Zentralno-Chernosjomnaja oblast), from its division on December 31, 1934 to Voronezh Oblast and from September 26, 1937 to the newly formed Ryazan Oblast . Since January 6, 1954 it has been part of the Lipetsk Oblast. On February 1, 1963, the Rajon was temporarily divided between the neighboring Dankowski and Tschaplyginski rajon, but restored on January 11, 1965.

Lev Tolstoy has been a rural settlement since 2005.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5964
1959	7737
1970	7974
1979	8292
1989	9139
2002	9035
2010	8650

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road runs through Lev Tolstoy from Ryazan via Tschaplygin and Dankow to Yefremow , formerly R126, today from Lev Tolstoy to Dankow as 42K-101, to Tschaplygin as 42K-553.

The place is on the railway line from Tschaplygin (station Ranenburg ) to Kurkino (station Kulikowo Pole; from there onwards - formerly in the direction of Smolensk - to Tyoploje 1995 and later dismantled) as well as the branching line to Jelez, which from the southeast Railway operated. The connection to Trojekurowo was also shut down and dismantled in 1998.

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)

Web links

Commons : Lev Tolstoy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)