Maksaticha

Urban-type settlement Maksaticha Максатиха flag Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Maksatichinski head Pyotr Kozlov First mention 1545 Urban-type settlement since 1928 population 8744 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48253 Post Code 171900 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 240 551 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 48 '  N , 35 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 47 '45 "  N , 35 ° 52' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

Maksaticha ( Russian Макса́тиха ) is an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast in Russia with 8,744 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 100 km as the crow flies north of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center . It is located on the left bank of the left Volga tributary, Mologa , a little above the confluence of the Volchina .

Maksaticha is the administrative center of the Rajons Maksatichinski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Maksaticha.

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  Freedom Square

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  Culture house

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  Local museum

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  All Saints Church

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  Railway bridge over the Volchina

history

The place was first mentioned in 1545. It took off with the construction of the originally private Rybinsk  - Bologoje railway at the end of the 1860s, when a station was built there, around which a station settlement grew. In 1928 it received urban-type settlement status. On July 12, 1929 Maksaticha became the administrative seat of the newly created Rajons named after him.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	4,728
1959	6,863
1970	7,861
1979	8,719
1989	10,217
2002	9,753
2010	8,744

Note: census data

traffic

Maksaticha has a train station at kilometer 186 of the Rybinsk - Bologoje - Pskov railway line, which opened in 1870 .

The regional road 28K-0034 runs through the settlement, which connects Vyshny Volotschok (about 80 km west) on the federal trunk road M10 Rossiya Moscow  - Saint Petersburg with the small town of Beschezk (50 km east). To the south, the 28K-0974 branches to neighboring, some 50 km away Rajonzentrum Rameschki from where-0058 28K there are connections in the direction of Tver on.

Web links

Commons : Maksaticha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Municipality of Maksaticha on the 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)