Okulowka

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city
Okulowka
Окуловка
coat of arms
coat of arms
Federal district Northwest Russia
Oblast Novgorod
Rajon Okulowka
mayor Fyodor Akhmatov
First mention 1495
City since 1965
surface 29  km²
population 12,464 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 430 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 170  m
Time zone UTC + 3
Telephone code (+7) 81657
Post Code 174350-174353
License Plate 53
OKATO 49 228 501
Website http://www.okuladm.ru/
Geographical location
Coordinates 58 ° 24 '  N , 33 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 24 '0 "  N , 33 ° 18' 0"  E
Okulowka (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Okulowka (Novgorod Oblast)
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Location in Novgorod Oblast
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.

Population development

year Residents comment
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

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

  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)

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