Okulowka
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Okulowka
Окуловка
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List of cities in Russia |
Okulowka ( Russian Окуловка ) is a city in Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 12,464 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the Waldai heights about 140 kilometers east of the oblast capital Veliky Novgorod on the Peretna , a left tributary of the Msta, which flows into the Volkhov .
Okulowka is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
The city lies on the St. Petersburg – Moscow railway line , which was opened in 1851 , on the former Nikolaibahn (line kilometer 249), from which a branch line to Neboltschi branches off here.
history
The village of Okulovka was first mentioned in a Novgorod Chronicle in 1495.
Around 1850 a station settlement of the same name was created in connection with the construction of the Nikolaibahn.
The settlement became the administrative center of a Rajon in 1927 and received urban-type settlement status on June 25, 1928 , as did the neighboring Parachino-Poddubje . On January 12, 1965, both settlements were united under the name Okulowka and received city rights.
Alexander Nevsky Church in Okulowka
Population development
year | Residents | comment |
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1897 | 1,716 | |
1939 | 16,887 | of which Okulowka 5,504, Parachino-Poddubje 11,383 |
1959 | 20,034 | of which Okulowka 7,682, Parachino-Poddubje 12,352 |
1970 | 19.194 | |
1979 | 19,291 | |
1989 | 17.197 | |
2002 | 14,470 | |
2010 | 12,464 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Various buildings from the 19th century have been preserved in Okulowka, such as the depot from 1850 and the houses of the Soin and Subow families from the end of the century.
St. George's Church ( Георгиевская церковь / Georgijewskaja zerkow) from 1801 is 25 kilometers southeast of Okulowka. Nearby is the former country estate where the anthropologist and researcher Nikolai Miklucho-Maklai was born.
Personalities
- Nikolai Miklucho-Maklai (1846–1888), anthropologist and explorer, was born near Okulowka
- Juri Rjorich (1902–1960), ethnographer , philologist , art scholar and explorer, was born in Okulowka
economy
The city's largest operations are a paper mill, founded in 1896, and an electrical cable factory. In addition, mineral water is bottled in two local plants ( Rodnik Waldaja for Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods and Sem rutschjew ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
- Okulowka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)