Makushino

city Makushino Макушино Federal district Ural Oblast Kurgan Rajon Makuschinski Founded 1896 City since 1963 surface 36  km² population 8338 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 232 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35236 Post Code 641600-641602 License Plate 45 OKATO 37 220 501 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 12 ′  N , 67 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 67 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kurgan Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Makuschino ( Russian Макушино ) is a small town in Kurgan Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,338 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located east of the Urals , in the southwest of the West Siberian lowlands , about 130 km east of the oblast capital Kurgan . The climate is continental.

The city of Makushino is the administrative center of Makushinsky Rajons .

Makushino is located on the original West Siberian section of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Chelyabinsk - Omsk ) , which was opened in October 1896, and on the M51 highway , part of the transcontinental road connection Moscow - Vladivostok , which bypasses the place to the north.

history

The village was founded by resettlers from the central part of European Russia possibly as early as the end of the 17th century. After the opening of the section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which has passed here since 1896, the settlement at the railway station grew rapidly and became one of the largest villages in the district ( Ujesd ) Kurgan. In 1944 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and in 1963 the town charter .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	8,716
1959	13,731
1970	12,852
1979	13,174
1989	10,535
2002	9,942
2010	8,338

Note: census data

economy

In addition to an agricultural machinery plant (Агромашзавод / Agromaschsawod) there are companies in the food industry.

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

• Makushino on mojgorod.ru (Russian)