Lunino (Pensa)

Urban-type settlement Lunino Лунино flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Luninski Founded 1665 Earlier names Arkhangelskoye Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 7905 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84161 Post Code 442730 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 243 551 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 36 '  N , 45 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '45 "  N , 45 ° 13' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

Lunino ( Russian Лу́нино ) is an urban-type settlement in the Penza Oblast in Russia with 7905 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is just 50 km straight line north of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Penza , about three kilometers from the left bank of the right Volga -Nebenflusses Sura removed.

The settlement is the administrative center of the Luninsky district and the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotschi possjolok Lunino.

history

The place emerged in the middle of the 17th century (the year of foundation is 1665) and was initially known under the name Archangelskoje , after the Archangel Church there. In 1780 the village became the administrative seat of a Volost under its current name .

On July 16, 1928, the place became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1938, Lunino received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	2414
1926	2527
1939	7332
1959	7577
1970	9047
1979	8591
1989	9086
2002	8324
2010	7905

Note: census data

traffic

Lunino has a station at kilometer 93 of the Rusajewka  - Pensa railway line, which opened on this section in 1895 and has been electrified since 1969 .

The regional road that follows the left bank of the Sura from Penza and branches off further downstream towards the northwestern Mordovian capital Saransk runs through the settlement . Until the construction of the R158 , which ran 30 km to the west, this was the main road connection between the two administrative centers.

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)