Peno

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Urban-type settlement Peno Пено Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Penowski First mention 1905 Urban-type settlement since 1930 population 4220 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48230 Post Code 172770 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 246 551 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 57 '  N , 32 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 56 '30 "  N , 32 ° 44' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

Peno ( Russian Пе́но ) is an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast in Russia with 4220 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 200 km as the crow flies west of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center . It is located between the Peno and Volgo lakes on the upper reaches of the Volga , which since 1845 have been united with other lakes by a weir northwest of Selischarowo to form the Upper Volgastausee (Verkhnevolschskoje wodochranilishche) .

Peno is the administrative center of the Rajons Penowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Peno.

history

The place was created in 1906 in connection with the construction of the Bologoje  - Velikije Luki railway line , when a station was built there. In 1911 the entrepreneur Sawwa Morosow had a woodworking factory built nearby, around which a settlement also grew. The settlements gradually grew together, as did the nearby villages of Bubnowo, Iswedowo, Schwezowo, Sujewo and Tinizy.

On June 1, 1929, Peno became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1930 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement. During the Second World War , the settlement was occupied by the German Wehrmacht at the beginning of October 1941 , but was recaptured by the Red Army on January 11, 1942 during their counter-offensive in the Battle of Moscow .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3410
1959	6179
1970	6588
1979	6405
1989	6212
2002	5358
2010	4220

Note: census data

traffic

Peno has a train station at km 147 of the Bologoje - Velikije Luki - Hrodna ( Belarus ) railway, which opened in 1907 . A few kilometers to the south-west of Soblago there is a stretch from Torzhok .

The regional road 28K-0001, which branches off the federal trunk road M9 at Sapadnaja Dvina about 80 km southwest of the M9 and follows the railway line from Andreapol and continues to Ostashkow on Lake Seliger , 30 km northeast of Peno, runs through the settlement .

Web links

Commons : Peno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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)