Lyssyje Gory (Saratov)
Urban-type settlement
Lyssyje Gory
Лысые Горы
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Lyssyje Gory ( Russian Лы́сые Го́ры ) is an urban-type settlement in the Saratov Oblast in Russia with 7,180 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 80 km as the crow flies west of the Saratov Oblast Administrative Center on the Don tributary Medveditsa .
Lyssyje Gory is the administrative center of the Rajons Lyssogorski and seat and only town of the municipality Lyssogorskoje gorodskoje posselenije.
history
The place was founded in 1750 by Cossacks from the place of the same name in the Tambov governorate (today Tambov Oblast ). The term in Russian stands for "bare mountains". In the middle of the 19th century Lyssyje Gory became the seat of a Volost des Ujezds Atkarsk of the Saratov Governorate .
On July 23, 1928, a raion of the same name emerged from the Volost. In 1962 Lyssyje Gory received urban-type settlement status.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 1053 |
1959 | 1448 |
1970 | 6191 |
1979 | 6736 |
1989 | 7436 |
2002 | 7557 |
2010 | 7180 |
Note: census data
traffic
Lyssyje Gory has a train station at kilometer 44 of the Krassawka (near Atkarsk ) - Kalininsk railway line, which opened in 1895 .
The branch line Borisoglebsk - Saratov (part of the European route 38 ) of the federal trunk road R22 Kaspi from Kaschira near Moscow to Astrakhan runs on the southern edge of the settlement .
Web links
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)