Pankowka
Urban-type settlement
Pankowka
Панковка
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Pankowka ( Russian Панковка ) is an urban-type settlement in Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 9,603 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located about five kilometers southwest of the center of the Oblast and Rajon administrative seat of Veliky Novgorod . In fact, it connects directly to the outskirts of the city. Pankowka extends on the right bank of the Werjascha , a tributary of the Ilmen lake .
Pankowka belongs to the Novgorodsky district and is the only town in the municipality of Pankovskoye gorodskoje posselenije.
history
In place of today's settlement, the village Mostishchi was first mentioned in 1412 , where a wooden church was built and a monastery was founded. Remains of a later stone church and the monastery were discovered during excavations around the year 2000.
Later the village was named Pantschicha, in the 20th century the form Pankowka became common . From the 1970s, due to the location not far from the city of Novgorod, various industrial companies and a prefabricated housing estate were built , which on March 28, 1977 received the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1979 | 3,376 |
1989 | 6,939 |
2002 | 10,057 |
2010 | 9,603 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
In Pankowka there is a repair shop for Russian Army technology and a tank farm, as well as various construction and utility companies.
The central part of the settlement with its prefabricated buildings is primarily a residential suburb of the city of Veliky Novgorod, with which there is a city bus connection . To the south and south-west of the area there are extensive allotment gardens and summer houses (“ Datschen ”).
Pankowka is on the A116 highway that connects Veliky Novgorod with Pskov . Until the Second World War , the Chudowo - Novgorod - Staraya Russa railway ran through the town , which was built in the 1870s as a narrow-gauge railway (gauge 1076 mm ) and converted to broad gauge during the First World War . After the war damage, the Novgorod - Staraya Russa section was not rebuilt; today there is still a freight siding from Novgorod to Pankowka on the old route .
To the east of the settlement is Veliky Novgorod Airport ( Jurjewo; IATA code NVR, ICAO code ULNN ), but there is no access from the direction of Pankowka.
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)
- ↑ I. Antipov, W. Bulkin: Nikolski Mostischtschski monastyr on the website RusArch (Russian)
Web links
- Local government website (Russian)