Ponyri
Urban-type settlement
Ponyri
Поныри
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Ponyri ( Russian По́ныри ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kursk Oblast in Russia with 4791 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 70 km as the crow flies north of the Kursk Oblast Administrative Center , about 6 km from the border with Oryol Oblast . It is located on the Snowa river, which flows over the Tuskar to the Seim .
Ponyri is the administrative center of the Rajons Ponyrowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Ponyri.
history
A village called Ponyri a little west of today's settlement was first mentioned in 1690. After the Moscow - Kharkov railway line was passed by at the end of the 1860s, the station settlement and the original village developed quickly; the place became the seat of a Volost in the Ujesd Fatesch of the Kursk governorate .
The station settlement became the administrative seat of a newly created rajon named after it in 1928 (the original village today forms the independent villages of Perwyje Ponyri and Wtoryje Ponyri to the west and southwest of the settlement). During the Second World War , Ponyri was occupied by the German Wehrmacht at the end of October 1941 and recaptured by the Red Army on February 9, 1943 , but was still close to the front for almost half a year. From July 5 to 11, 1943, heavy fighting broke out again during the Battle of Kursker Bogens , and the place was badly damaged.
After the dissolution of the Rajon on February 1, 1963, it was restored on December 9, 1970, and in 1971 the administrative center of Ponyri was given the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 6782 |
1939 | 2723 |
1959 | 3927 |
1979 | 4303 |
1989 | 4941 |
2002 | 4697 |
2010 | 4791 |
Note: census data (1897 village and station settlement)
traffic
Ponyri has a station at kilometer 469 of the railway line Moscow - Kursk - Belgorod - Kharkiv ( Ukraine ), which opened on this section in 1868 and has been electrified since 1959 .
The regional road 38K-002, which branches off the federal trunk road M2 a good 30 km to the west near the village of Verkhny Lyubash , leads into the village . The 38K-018 largely follows the railway line via the neighboring district of Solotuchino to Kursk.
Web links
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)