Ostrovskoye (Kostroma)
settlement
Ostrowskoje
Островское
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Ostrowskoje ( Russian Остро́вское ) is a settlement (possjolok) in Kostroma Oblast in Russia with 5042 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 75 km as the crow flies east of the Kostroma Oblast Administrative Center on the right bank of the Mera River , which flows into the Volga , which is dammed up to the Gorkier Reservoir , almost 40 km south of the left .
Ostrowskoje is the administrative center of Ostrowski Rajon and the seat of two rural communities:
- Ostrowskoje (Zentralnoje) selskoje posselenije ("Central rural municipality Ostrowskoje"), to which Ostrowskoje is the only place
- Ostrowskoje selskoje posselenije ("rural municipality Ostrowskoje"), to which Ostrowskoje itself does not belong, but 45 surrounding villages and settlements; Seven of them have more than 100 inhabitants: Khomutowo (8 km north), Guljajewka (3 km north-west), Jurjewo (11 km north-west), Klimowo (18 km north), Krasnaya Polyana (8 km north-west), Loginowo and Novosjolki (about 2 and 3 km southwest); 15 others have more than 10 residents, 11 less than 10 and 12 no permanent residents (as of 2014)
history
The village was first mentioned as Semjonowskoje in the 13th or 14th century and is possibly named after the Moscow Grand Duke Simeon Ivanovich (also Semjon ). In the meantime it also bore the name Semyonovsko-Lapotnoye; the name affix after the Russian lapot (plural lapti ) for bast shoes, which were common especially among farmers until the 20th century and which were obviously made there. The important village became the seat of a Volost , which from 1778 belonged to the Ujesd Kineshma of the governorate, from 1796 to the Kostroma governorate .
In 1929 Semyonovskoye became the administrative seat of the newly created Semyonovsky rajon. In 1948, the Raion in was Ostrowski rayon renamed after the playwright Alexander Ostrovsky , who long for the Convention therein estate Schtschelykowo lived and worked and died there too. In 1956 the place got its current name after him.
From 1965 Ostrovskoye was an urban-type settlement , but lost this status again in 1992 and has been a rural settlement ever since.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 622 |
1939 | 2228 |
1959 | 2552 |
1970 | 3901 |
1979 | 4923 |
1989 | 5388 |
2002 | 5273 |
2010 | 5042 |
Note: census data
traffic
The regional road 34R-5 (formerly R98) runs past the northern outskirts of Ostrowskoje, which , coming from Kostroma via Sudislavl , continues via Kady , Makarjew and Manturowo to Verkhnespasskoye north of Sharja . East of the village, the 34N-6 branches off to the border of the Ivanovo Oblast , from there to Zavolschsk with the Volga Bridge to Kineshma (formerly R101).
To the west of Ostrovskoye there is a train station on the freight railroad from Pervushino to Savolschsk. The nearest station with passenger traffic is about 35 km west of Sudislavl on the Yaroslavl - Kostroma - Galitsch route .
Personalities
Between 1900 and 1916 the painter Boris Kustodijew (1878–1927) lived and worked in Ostrowskoje at times , to whom a museum opened there in 1958 is dedicated.
Web links
- Official website of the Ostrowskoje municipal administration (Zentralnoje) (Russian)
- Official website of the Ostrovskoye municipal administration (Russian)
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)