Pilna
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Pilna ( Russian Пи́льна ) is an urban-type settlement in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast with 7333 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
Pilna is located in the southeast of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, not far from the border with the Chuvash Republic , on the left bank of the Pjana , a tributary of the Sura . The settlement is about 150 km as the crow flies from the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Administrative Center .
Pilna is the administrative seat of the Pilninski Rajons named after her and forms a municipality (gorodskoje posselenije), which includes the village of Vankowo (57 inhabitants) 6 km to the south-west.
history
The place was founded in 1698 by exiles who operated forestry in the area. The wood sawn there ( the place name is derived from the Russian word pila for 'saw'), mainly oak , was rafted across the Pjana to the Volga , among other things for use by the Kazan Admiralty founded by Tsar Peter I in 1710 , which in fact is the entire Shipbuilding in the Volga region was under. At the time of the reign of Catherine II in the second half of the 18th century, the place was led under the name Pilowalny zavod (" sawmill ").
In 1918 the Moscow - Arsamas - Kazan railway line passed the site. In the 1920s, Pilna became a district administrative center, and in 1964 it received urban-type settlement status.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 4619 |
| 1959 | 3889 |
| 1970 | 4235 |
| 1979 | 5606 |
| 1989 | 7478 |
| 2002 | 7866 |
| 2010 | 7333 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
Pilna is the center of an agricultural area with the predominant cultivation of grain and sugar beet as well as dairy farming. In the settlement there are farms for processing agricultural products, a factory for meat processing plants, a textile factory and companies in the construction industry.
In Pilna there is a train station on the double- track Moscow - Kazan line , which has been electrified since 1987 (route km 555 from Moscow Kazan train station ). A regional road runs through the village, which runs along the Pjana and Sura from the Sergatsch in the west (on the R162) to Shumerlja in Chuvashia (on the R231).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 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)
- ↑ a b Pilna on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
