Pospelicha

Village Pospelicha Поспелиха Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon Pospelicha Founded 1748 Village since 1992 population 12,496 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38556 Post Code 659700-659702 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 234 895 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 59 ′  N , 81 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 81 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

List of large settlements in Russia

Pospelicha ( Russian Поспе́лиха ) is a village in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 12,496 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is located in the steppes of northwestern Altai foothills , 200 kilometers southwest of the regional capital Barnaul on the left bank of whether -Nebenflusses Alei .

Pospelicha is the administrative center of the Pospelicha Rajon of the same name .

history

The village of Pospelicha was founded in 1748 and named after a stream that flows into the Alei a few kilometers upstream. By the turn of the 20th century it developed into the administrative center of a Volost (roughly rural municipality) of the Okrug Smeinogorsk of the then Tomsk governorate . In 1904 a church was built. During this time the place had about 4000 inhabitants.

In connection with the construction of the Novonikolajewsk- Barnaul- Semipalatinsk railway - later part of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway - from 1913 a train station of the same name was built some distance from the old village, which was officially opened on November 3, 1915. For the settlement created at the station, 1916 is often given as the year of foundation and refers to the entire place. When the Rajon was founded in 1924, the station settlement became its administrative center.

As part of the large-scale campaign - including propaganda - to reclaim agriculturally unused areas (“new land development”) in Kazakhstan and southwestern Siberia in the 1950s, several larger farms were established in Pospelicha. The districts grew together, and the population increased significantly, so that in 1958 the status of an urban-type settlement was given. Since 1992, Pospelicha has been a village again, like a number of comparable localities in the region with an agricultural orientation, despite the continued increase in population.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	8,551
1959	10,751
1970	11,770
1979	12,299
1989	13.131
2002	13,693
2010	12,496

Note : census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Pospelicha is the center of an important agricultural area with mainly grain cultivation and cattle farming. There are companies in the village for the processing of agricultural products (large bakery and dairy, pasta factory, grain silo) as well as the construction industry and the repair of agricultural equipment.

The place is on the railway line Novosibirsk - Barnaul - Rubzowsk - Kazakh border (route kilometers 439).

A few kilometers north of the village, the A349 trunk road runs parallel to the railway line in the direction of Semei (Kazakhstan) , from which the R370 regional road branches off via Smeinogorsk to the village of Tretyakowo, which is also not far from the Kazakh border towards Öskemen .

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)
2. ↑ Rajon Pospelicha ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Rajon newspaper Novy put ("New Way") (Russian) 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Pospelicha on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Pospelikha Raion on the Altai Region Administration website (in Russian)