Mokrous

Urban-type settlement Mokrous Мокроус Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Rajon Fyodorovsky Founded 1894 Urban-type settlement since 1967 population 6731 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 105  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84565 Post Code 413410 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 248 551 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 14 '  N , 47 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '15 "  N , 47 ° 30' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

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
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

• 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)