Pestjaki

Urban-type settlement Pestjaki Пестяки Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ivanovo Rajon Pestakovsky First mention 1379 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 4028 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49346 Post Code 155650 License Plate 37, 137 OKATO 24 219 551 Website pestyakigorposadm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 42 ′  N , 42 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 42 ′ 30 "  N , 42 ° 40 ′ 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ivanovo Oblast

Pestjaki ( Russian Пестяки́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Ivanovo Oblast in Russia with 4028 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 110 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the Oblast Administrative Center Ivanovo . It is located on the Pureschok (also called Purech), which flows over the Landech to the Luch , a few kilometers from the border with Nizhny Novgorod Oblast .

Pestjaki is the administrative center of the Rajons Pestjakowski and seat and only town of the municipality Pestjakowskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

Church in Pestjaki

The place was first mentioned in 1379 as a place of transfer of Lithuanian prisoners after a campaign by Dmitri Donskois . A cloth factory was built in the 18th century.

On August 30, 1931, Pestjaki became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1959 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1550
1939	2817
1959	4472
1970	4399
1979	4731
1989	4903
2002	4319
2010	4028

Note: census data

traffic

Bus station in Pestjaki

Regional road 24K-260 runs through Pestjaki from Shuja 80 km to the west to the border of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast; there further as 22R-0152 to Nizhny Novgorod .

The nearest train station is a good 50 km east in Savolschje on the Volga , the end of a branch line from Nizhny Novgorod.

Web links

• Official website of the municipal 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)