Oktyabrsk

city Oktyabrsk Октябрьск flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Samara Urban district Oktyabrsk mayor Viktor Stanotin Founded 1684 City since 1956 surface 23  km² population 27,244 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1185 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 50  m Ethnic composition Russians (91.77%) Germans (1.87%) Ukrainians (1.6%) Tatars (1.19%) Mordvins (1.16%) Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84646 Post Code 445240-445247 License Plate 63, 163 OKATO 36 418 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 10 ′  N , 48 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 48 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Samara Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Oktjabrsk ( Russian Октябрьск ) is a city in Samara Oblast ( Russia ) with 27,244 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the southwest of the Volga bend Samarskaya Luka , about 150 km west of the Oblast capital Samara . It stretches in a narrow strip over 20 kilometers on the right bank of the Volga , which is dammed up here to form the Saratov reservoir . To the west, Oktyabrsk merges almost seamlessly into the city of Syzran .

Oktyabrsk is administratively directly subordinate to the oblast .

The city lies on the railway line between Moscow and Samara, opened on this section in 1877 ( Oktyabrsk station at 975 km). In the urban area there is still the Pravaya Volga train station (literally right Volga , i.e. right Volga river ), near which the line crosses the Volga on an almost 1,500 meter long bridge with a five kilometer long dam. The M5 Moscow – Samara – Chelyabinsk highway also passes north of Oktyabrsk . The city has a river port on the Volga.

history

The first settlements arose on the territory of today's city towards the end of the 17th century, for example Gorodishche in 1684 as one of the fortifications of the Syzran defense line along the then border of Tsarist Russia and in 1704 Batraki as a ferry point across the Volga.

In 1880, in connection with the construction of a railway bridge across the Volga, the settlement of Pravaya Volga was built and in 1882 an asphalt works a few kilometers upstream Pechorsky, which was renamed Pervomaiski in 1925 .

In 1942, the places that had grown together in the meantime, including the large village of Kostytschi, located between Batraki and Pravaya Volga, were united to form Octyabrsky Rajon of the city of Syzran (name derived from oktyabr , Russian for October ; refers to the October Revolution ). In 1956 the Rajon became an independent city under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents	annotation
1939	18,930	only workers' settlement Batraki (10,106) and Kostychi village (8,824)
1959	33,771
1970	33,981
1979	29,769
1989	27,449
2002	25,336
2010	27,244

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Oktyabrsk has had a local museum since 1995.

economy

The main branches of industry are the construction and building materials industry (insulating materials, reinforced concrete, wood and metal structures, asphalt, refractory materials). There is also a textile and wood processing industry.

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)

Web links

• Oktjabrsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)