Olenino (Tver)
Urban-type settlement
Olenino
Оленино
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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 |
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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
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)