Ola (Russia)

Urban-type settlement Ola Ола Federal district far East Oblast Magadan Rajon Ola First mention 1716 Urban-type settlement since 1957 population 6,215 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 10  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41341 Post Code 686010 License Plate 49 OKATO 44 201 551 Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 35 '  N , 151 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 34 '45 "  N , 151 ° 17' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Magadan Oblast

Ola ( Russian О́ла ) is an urban-type settlement in the Magadan Oblast ( Russia ) with 6,215 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk on the left bank of the Ola river of the same name, not far from its confluence with the Ola lagoon (Olskaja laguna) , which opens a few kilometers east to the sea. Ola is about 30 kilometers eastward as the crow flies from Magadan Oblast Administrative Center .

Ola is the administrative center of the Ola Rajon of the same name .

history

A first settlement on the site of the present-day town was probably built by Russian Cossacks as early as the end of the 1640s while they were advancing east, shortly after they first reached the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and the first settlement of Okhotsk was founded . The first written mention of the place comes from the year 1716. In the 19th century, before the foundation of Magadan, Ola was the starting point of the Ola-Kolyma tract, the trade route between the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and the upper reaches of the Kolyma . Annual fairs were held in the village.

On January 4, 1926, Ola became the administrative center of a newly created Rajon. The landing of a geological expedition under Yuri Bilibin on board the (former Japanese ) steamship Daiboshi Maru in Ola on July 4, 1928 is considered to be the beginning of the economic development of the Kolyma region during the Soviet period. In 1957, Ola was given urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	677
1959	3,842
1970	6,295
1979	8.223
1989	10.122
2002	6,842
2010	6.215

Note:: census data

Culture and sights

There has been a local museum in Ola since 1976.

Economy and Infrastructure

The main industries are fishing and fish processing. In the area there is agriculture for the regional supply (cultivation of potatoes and vegetables, cattle farming).

Ola is connected to Magadan by a road that crosses the Ola river with a bridge near the village and continues upstream to the villages of Saretschny and Gadlja, a few kilometers away.

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. ↑ Ola in the regional internet portal kolyma.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ola on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
4. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)