Osjorny (Tver)

Urban-type settlement Osjorny Озёрный flag Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Urban district Osjorny head Natalja Jakowleva Founded 1972 Earlier names Bologoje-4 Urban-type settlement since 1992 surface 10.88  km² population 10,882 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1000 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 190  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48238 Post Code 171090 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 553 Website www.ozerny.ru Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 52 '  N , 33 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 52 '0 "  N , 33 ° 41' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Osjorny ( Russian Озёрный ) is a closed (SATO) urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,882 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located 170 km as the crow flies northwest of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center and a good 20 km west of the city of Bologoje . It connects directly to the south-west of the rural settlement of Wypolsowo .

The settlement is the only locality in the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije).

history

The place goes back to a military settlement that was built near an airfield in the 1930s. In the 1960s, a unit of the Strategic Missile Forces was stationed there. In this context, the place was expanded considerably by building a prefabricated housing estate. On November 24, 1972, he received the official status of a secret military town (wojenny gorodok) with code name Bologoje-4. In NATO , this location was named after another village to the north-west as Jedrowo or Wypolsowo ; from the 1970s ICBMs of the type MR UR-100 (SS-17) were stationed there.

By resolution of December 24, 1992, Osjorny received the status of an urban-type settlement and a "closed administrative-territorial unit (SATO)" under its current name, derived from osero, Russian for sea .

Population development

year	Residents
2002	10,689
2010	10,882

Note: census data

Attractions

In 1998 the Andreas Church ( собор Андрея Первозванного , sobor Andreja Pervoswannowo ) was built in Osjorny .

Economy and Infrastructure

Osjorny is the residential area of ​​a site of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces , where RS-12M Topol (SS-25) missiles are still stationed today.

Not far from the settlement, through Vypolsowo, runs the M10 highway , which connects Moscow and Saint Petersburg . The nearest train station is about seven kilometers northwest of Jedrowo on the Bologoye - Pskow railway line , from where a freight connection line leads to Osyorny.

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. ↑ Andrew's Church Osjorny at sobory.ru (Russian)

Web links

• Municipality website (Russian)