Olenino (Tver)

Urban-type settlement Olenino Оленино coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Oleninski Founded 1898 Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 4918 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 260  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48258 Post Code 172400 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 244 551 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 12 '  N , 33 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 12 '15 "  N , 33 ° 28' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

Olenino ( Russian Оле́нино ) is an urban-type settlement in the Tver Oblast in Russia with 4918 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 170 km as the crow flies southwest of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center . It is located in the watershed between the Mesha creek Berjosa in the river system of the Daugava and the right Volga creek Sischka , so on one of the main European watershed .

Olenino is the administrative center of the Rajons Oleninski and seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Olenino, include (km northwest 4) and the resort Doroschno-Remontny point which also includes the village Lytniza (south then), the settlement Kosinka.

history

The place was created in 1898 in connection with the construction of the Moscow  - Riga railway line , when a station was built there on the land of the landowner Grigori Olenin.

In 1922, Olenino became the administrative seat of a Volost named after him , which was converted into a Rajon on June 16, 1929. In 1938 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

During World War II , Olenino was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from October 10, 1941 to March 4, 1943 . The settlement was in the vicinity of the front for over a year from the beginning of 1942 and was badly destroyed.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3445
1959	4081
1970	4236
1979	5320
1989	5881
2002	5247
2010	4918

Note: census data

traffic

Olenino has a train station at kilometer 288 of the railway line Moscow - Velikije Luki  - Riga ( Latvia ) opened on this section in 1904 .

The federal trunk road M9 Baltija , which follows the railway line from Moscow to the Latvian border and is part of the European route 22 , runs about five kilometers north of the settlement . A regional road branches off after Olenino and further south towards Bely .

Web links

• Official website of the district administration (Russian)

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)