Novopawlowka (Transbaikalia)

Urban-type settlement Nowopawlowka Новопавловка Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Petrovsk-Sabaikalsky Founded 1868 Earlier names Novo-Pavlovskoye Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 3941 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 740  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30236 Post Code 673030 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 236 556 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 13 '  N , 109 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '0 "  N , 109 ° 13' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Novopawlowka ( Russian Новопа́вловка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 3941 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 310 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the regional capital Chita on the right bank of the Chilok , which flows north of the Jablonowy Mountains .

Novopawlowka belongs to the Petrowsk-Sabaikalski Raion and is located about 20 km southeast of its administrative center Petrowsk-Sabaikalski . It is the seat and only locality of the Novopawlowskoje gorodskoje posselenije municipality .

history

The place was founded in 1868 by members of the old Orthodox religious community of the Semeisky and was initially called Novo-Pavlovskoye. After the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway , a station was opened there in 1904 and in 1906 the Tarbagataier coal deposit was discovered nearby, named after the neighboring town of Tarbagatai to the west .

In the 1930s, coal mining was intensified, and as a miners' settlement, the place was given the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938 under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	272
1939	3271
1959	6038
1970	5180
1979	5028
1989	4775
2002	4288
2010	3941

Note: census data

traffic

Novopawlowka is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway (route km 5828 from Moscow ), which was electrified on this section in 1974 . To the north the settlement is bypassed by the trunk road R258 Baikal (formerly M55), which connects Irkutsk to Chita via Ulan-Ude and is part of the transcontinental road link.

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. ↑ Novopawlowka in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)