Pestowo

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Novgorod
Rajon	Pestowo
Founded	1918
City since	1965
surface	15 km²
population	15,903 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	1060 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	125 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 81669
Post Code	174510-174511
License Plate	53
OKATO	49 232 501
Geographical location
Coordinates	58 ° 36 ' N , 35 ° 49' E Coordinates: 58 ° 36 '0 " N , 35 ° 49' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Novgorod Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Pestowo ( Russian Песто́во ) is a city in the far east of Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,903 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Mologa Sheksna lowland about 310 km east of the oblast capital Veliky Novgorod on the Mologa , a left tributary of the Volga .

Pestowo is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

The city is located on the railway line ( Saint Petersburg -) Mga - Budogoschtsch - Ovinishche (- Zavyolovo - Moscow ) (km 317) , which was completed in the 1930s .

history

The Pestowo station settlement was built around 1920 (various details between 1918 and 1925) near an old village of the same name during the construction of the railway line between Moscow and Leningrad as an alternative to the former Nikolaibahn .

On January 12, 1965, the town was granted city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7,925
1959	14,208
1970	15,795
1979	15,479
1989	15,941
2002	15,990
2010	15,903

Note: census data

economy

In Pestowo there is a factory for prefabricated houses and residential containers, a sawmill of the Finnish UPM-Kymmene and other wood processing companies as well as a large dairy.

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)

Web links

Commons : Pestowo - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

City's unofficial website (Russian)
Pestowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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)


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