Lusa (city)
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Lusa ( Russian Луза ) is a city in Kirov Oblast ( Russia ) with 11,260 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 300 km northwest of the Oblast capital Kirov on the Lusa , a right tributary of the source river Jug of the Northern Dvina .
Lusa is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
history
Lusa was built on the site of a settlement known since the 17th century as a station settlement during the construction of the railway line Vyatka - Kotlas in 1899 and received city rights in 1944.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 6.704 |
| 1959 | 13,181 |
| 1970 | 14,033 |
| 1979 | 14.004 |
| 1989 | 13,706 |
| 2002 | 12,311 |
| 2009 | 11,260 |
Note: census data
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)
Web links
- Unofficial website about Lusa (Russian)
- Lusa on mojgorod.ru (Russian)