Pokrovskoje (Oryol, Pokrovsky)

Urban-type settlement Pokrovskoye Покровское Federal district Central Russia Oblast Oryol Rajon Pokrovsky First mention 1625 Urban-type settlement since 1973 population 4,432 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48664 Post Code 303170 License Plate 57 OKATO 54 250 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 37 '  N , 36 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '45 "  N , 36 ° 52' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Oryol Oblast

Pokrovskoje ( Russian Покро́вское ) is an urban-type settlement in Oryol Oblast in Russia with 4432 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is just 70 km crow flies southeast of the Oblastverwaltungszentrums Oryol on Lipowez, a river, a catchment area of Bystraya Sosna .

Pokrovskoye is the administrative center of the Rajons Pokrovsky and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Pokrovskoye.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1625. In 1861 a Volost named after the village was formed in Ujesds Maloarchangelsk in the Orjol governorate , but its seat was initially in the village of Lipowez, 5 km to the east.

On January 18, 1935, Pokrovskoye became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in December 1941 and recaptured by the Red Army on February 18, 1943 . After that, the front line ran for almost six months a good 10 km west of the town, from where the Soviet counter-offensive in the northern part of the so-called Kursk Arc began in July 1943.

Since December 21, 1973 the place has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	354
1959	916
1970	1758
1979	3409
1989	4301
2002	4628
2010	4432

Note: census data

traffic

To the north Pokrovskoye is bypassed by the federal highway R119 Oryol - Lipetsk  - Tambov . In a north-easterly direction, the regional road 54K-4 branches off to the neighboring district center Verkhovye, about 30 km away .

The nearest train stations are in Verkhovye on the Oryol - Jelets  - Lipetsk  - Grjasi route and in the neighboring district of Smijowka, also a good 30 km away, on the Moscow  - Kursk - Kharkiv route ( Ukraine ).

Web links

• 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)