Possjolok imeni Karla Libknechta

Urban-type settlement Possjolok imeni Karla Libknechta Посёлок имени Карла Либкнехта Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kursk Rajon Kurchatovsky head Alexander Tutochkin First mention 1606 Earlier names Peny (until 1930) Urban-type settlement since 1930 population 7682 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 155  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47131 Post Code 307240 License Plate 46 OKATO 38 221 553 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 37 '  N , 35 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '20 "  N , 35 ° 28' 50"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kursk Oblast

Possjolok imeni Karla Libknechta ( Russian Посёлок имени Карла Либкнехта , translated Karl Liebknecht settlement ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kursk Oblast ( Russia ) with 7682 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is about 50 kilometers as the crow flies west-southwest of the Kursk Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the Desna tributary Seim .

The Karl-Liebknecht-Siedlung is the administrative center of the Kurchatovsky Rajon and is located about 15 km southwest of its administrative seat Kurchatov and the Kursk nuclear power plant there . The settlement is the only place in the municipality of the same name (gorodskoje posselenije).

history

The place originally called Peny was first mentioned in 1606. In 1868 the Kursk - Kiev railway line passed the then private Kursk-Kiev Railway (from 1893 Kiev- Voronezh , from 1895 Moscow- Kiev-Voronezh Railway ), which resulted in an economic boom. One of the first and largest sugar factories in the region was built in the 19th century.

As early as 1930, the place, which had meanwhile grown together with the neighboring village of Blochino, received the status of an urban-type settlement and the name of the German communist and co-founder of the KPD Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919). During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from late October 1941 to late February 1943 .

In 1977 the settlement with the entire eastern part of the Lgowski rajon, to which it had belonged since 1928, was spun off into the new Kurchatovsky rajon.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,730
1959	7,012
1970	10,272
1979	9,884
1989	9,833
2002	8,216
2010	7,682

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

After the closure of the former largest companies in the Karl Liebknecht settlement, the sugar factory (1997) and a machine factory founded in 1944, the largest employers are various supply and construction companies.

The two-track railway line Kiev - Kursk ( Blochino station , route kilometer 413) runs through the village , from which a freight connection line branches off to the east to the Kollektiwist sugar factory in Lyubimovka , which is a good 15 km away .

The settlement is on the R199 regional road , which connects Kursk via Kurchatov, Lgov and Rylsk with the Ukrainian border in the direction of Hluchiw and is part of European route 38 .

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)

Web links

• Semi-official website of the settlement (Russian)