Novonikolajewski (Volgograd)

Urban-type settlement Nowonikolajewski Новониколаевский Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Rajon Novonikolajewski head Alexander Skopinsev Founded 1870 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 9931 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84444 Post Code 403901 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 240 551 Website novonik34.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 59 ′  N , 42 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 30 ″  N , 42 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

Novonikolajewski ( Russian: Новоникола́евский ) is an urban-type settlement in the Volgograd Oblast in Russia with 9,931 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is just under 300 km as the crow flies north-northwest of the Volgograd Oblast Administrative Center in the steppe area east of the Chopjor River .

Nowonikolajewski is the administrative center of the Rajons Nowonikolajewski as well as the seat of the municipality Nowonikolajewskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the settlement Gosplodopitomnik and Weiler (Chutor) (north-northwest 10 km) Fominski (8 km north-northwest), Korolewski, Orlowski (5 km north-northeast) and Tschulinski (8 km southeast) belong.

history

The place was created in 1870 in connection with the construction of the railway line to Tsaritsyn (today's Volgograd). In the years that followed, families from the surrounding villages settled at the train station built there.

In 1928 Novonikolajewski became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1959 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,344
1959	8,424
1970	9,895
1979	10,300
1989	10,795
2002	10,228
2010	9,931

Note: census data

traffic

In Novonikolajewski the Alexikowo station is located on the railway line ( Moscow  -) Gryazi  - Volgograd (km 734 from Moscow), which was opened on this section on December 26, 1870, along the entire length of 1871 . There a branch line, which was also put into operation in 1871, branches off to the city of Urjupinsk ( Urjupino station ) located about 30 km southwest on Chopjor .

The federal trunk road R22 Kaspi runs southwest of the settlement from Kaschira near Moscow to Volgograd and Astrakhan . In a south-westerly direction, the regional road 18K-7 branches off via Urjupinsk to the border with the neighboring Voronezh Oblast (from there on towards Kalatsch ).

Web links

• Official website of the municipal 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)