Mokshan (place)

Urban-type settlement Mokshan Мокшан flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Mochan Founded 1679 Urban-type settlement since 1960 population 11,592 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 190  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84150 Post Code 442370 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 245 551 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 27 '  N , 44 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '45 "  N , 44 ° 36' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Mokschan ( Russian Мокша́н ) is an urban-type settlement in Penza Oblast ( Russia ) with 11,592 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is about 40 km north-west of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Penza on both sides of Moksha , a right tributary of the Oka .

Mokshan is the administrative center of the Mokshan Rajon of the same name . The settlement is also the administrative seat of a municipality of the same name (gorodskoje posselenije) , to which the two rural settlements Krasny Kordon and Krasnoye Polzo also belong.

history

Until the 20th century, the year 1535, given by Nikolai Karamsin , was the founding year of the place. However, more recent findings have shown that Mokschan was built as a wooden fortress in the course of the Penza Verha line, which began in 1676, in 1679 at the latest. The place was named after the river; At times the name forms Mokschansk and Mokschany were also in use.

At first Mokschan was considered a “suburb” of Penza, later it became independent. From 1708 it was run as the city of the Kazan Governorate , from 1780 as the administrative seat of a Ujesd of the governorship of Penza. In 1798 it lost this administrative function for a short time, but received it again with the creation of the Penza governorate in 1801.

As part of the administrative reform after the establishment of the Soviet Union , the Ujesd Mokschan was dissolved and the place lost its town charter . In 1928 the current village of Mokshan became the administrative seat of the newly created Rajons of the same name. In 1960 it received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1795	3,791
1897	10,044
1939	7,024
1959	6,260
1970	8,672
1979	10,357
1989	11,035
2002	11,808
2010	11,592

Note: from 1897 census data

Attractions

The center of Mokshan is a relatively well-preserved ensemble of secular and church buildings, as was common in a small Russian provincial town at the end of the 19th century. These include the Archangel Michael 's Church ( церковь Михаила Архангела , Zerkow Michaila Archangela ) 1817-1825 and the Epiphany 's Church ( церковь Богоявления Господня , Bogojawlenija Gospodnja Zerkow ) from 1893 to 1908. At the village was a part of the wooden fortifications from the Reconstructed in the 17th century with a watchtower .

Since 1977 there has been a memorial museum in Mokshan for the writer Alexander Malyshkin (1892–1938), who was born in the village of Bogorodskoje (about 5 km west) of Ujezd Mokshan .

Economy and Infrastructure

Mokschan is located in the middle of an agricultural area. There are various companies in the food industry and forestry.

The M5 trunk road runs through the village and runs from Moscow to Penza and on to Chelyabinsk in the Urals . The nearest stations are Simanschtschina (the village Netschajewka) and Ramsai (in the same village) at the track Ryazhsk  - Pensa - Sysran , both about 20 km southwest and southeast direction from Mokshan.

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)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Mokshan on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Archangel Michael Church Mokschan  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at sobory.ru (Russian)  
4. ↑ Epiphany Church Mokschan ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at sobory.ru (Russian) 
5. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)

Web links

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

• Rajon Administration website (Russian)