Mokrous
Urban-type settlement
Mokrous
Мокроус
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Mokrous ( Russian Мокроу́с ) is an urban-type settlement in the Saratov Oblast in Russia with 6,731 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 110 km as the crow flies east- south- east of the Saratov Oblast Administrative Center in the steppe region east of the Volga , a few kilometers from the right bank of the Jeruslan overflow.
Mokrous is the administrative center of the Rajons Fjodorowski and seat of the municipality Mokrousskoje gorodskoje posselenije, also includes the 8 km south Located on Yaroslav village Iwanowka to.
history
The place was created in 1894 (according to other sources not until 1902) in connection with the construction of a railway line from Pokrovsk (today Engels ) to Uralsk (today Oral in Kazakhstan ), when a station was built there, around which a settlement grew. From June 22, 1922 Mokrous belonged to the canton Fyodorovsky of the ASSR of the Volga Germans with seat in the village Fyodorowka 15 km north . The Mokrous settlement developed rapidly in the 1930s, so that the cantonal administration was relocated there in 1939.
With the dissolution of the Volga German Republic on September 7, 1941, the canton was converted into a Rajon while retaining its name. In 1967 Mokrous received urban-type settlement status.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1926 | 123 |
1939 | 2430 |
1959 | 2407 |
1970 | 3987 |
1979 | 5107 |
1989 | 6559 |
2002 | 6788 |
2010 | 6731 |
Note: census data
traffic
Mokrous has a train station at kilometer 982 of the Saratov - Yershov - Oral (Kazakhstan) - Sol-Ilezk railway line, which opened in 1894 . At the northern edge of the settlement, the regional road (formerly R236), which also comes from Engels near Saratow via Jerschow and leads to the Kazakh border, runs past, part of the European route 38 .
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)