Melenki

city Melenki Меленки flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Vladimir Rajon Melenki mayor Viktor Gavrilov Founded Early 18th century City since 1778 surface 11  km² population 15,206 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1382 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49247 Post Code 602100 License Plate 33 OKATO 17 242 501 Website www.melenky.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 20 ′  N , 41 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 41 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Vladimir Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Melenki ( Russian Меленки ) is a city in the Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,206 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the eastern part of the Meshchora lowlands about 150 km southeast of the Oblast capital Vladimir on the upper reaches of the Unscha , a left tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

Melenki is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Melenki was founded at the beginning of the 18th century as a village owned by the Russian Tsar's court . It was named after the Melenka river , apparently derived from the Russian word melnitsa for mill (see also city arms).

In 1778 the place received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1784	1,511
1897	8,909
1939	15,640
1959	17,462
1970	18,545
1979	18,080
1989	18,340
2002	16,344
2010	15.206

Note: from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

A bell tower from 1878 has been preserved in the town.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Melenki there are companies in the textile and light industry, mechanical engineering as well as the food industry and building materials industry.

The city is the end of a 20-kilometer-long railway line (freight only) that branches off the Moscow - Arsamas - Kazan line in Butylizy . The R125 Kassimow - Murom - Pavlovo - Nizhny Novgorod road also passes through Melenki .

sons and daughters of the town

• Vladimir Jakunin (* 1948), politician, President of the Russian Railway Company
• Nikolai Kamanin (1909–1982), pilot and hero of the Soviet Union
• Pawel Lebedew-Polyansky (1882–1948), literary critic
• Olga Rosanowa (1886–1918), avant-garde painter, art theorist and poet

Web links

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Melenki on mojgorod.ru (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)