Prawdinski

Urban-type settlement Pravdinski Правдинский flag Federal district Central Russia Oblast Moscow Rajon Pushkinsky head Andrei Kuzmenkov Founded 1930 Urban-type settlement since 1941 population 10,587 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 170  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) Post Code 141260 License Plate 50, 90, 150, 190, 750 OKATO 46 247 558 Website pravdinski.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 4 '  N , 37 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 4 '0 "  N , 37 ° 52' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Moscow Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Prawdinski ( Russian Правдинский ) is an urban-type settlement in Moscow Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,587 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is about 40 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the center of the Russian capital - also the administrative center of the Oblast - Moscow and a good 20 km from the Moscow motorway ring. Through the site, the Skalba, a tributary of the left flows Klyazma -Nebenflusses Utscha.

Prawdinski belongs to the Pushkinsky Rajon and is about 8 km north of its administrative center Pushkino . The settlement forms a municipality of the same name (gorodskoje posselenije) .

history

The place emerged from 1930 as a dacha settlement around the train station of the nearby village of Bratovschtschina . First, like the train station, it was named Pravda (Russian for truth ) after the newspaper of the same name , for whose employees a rest home of the same name was built there.

In 1941 urban-type settlement status was given under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6.101
1959	11,369
1970	11,727
1979	11,161
1989	11,295
2002	10,458
2010	10,587

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

In Prawdinski there are companies in the construction and building materials industry, electrical engineering and a furniture factory, as well as several research institutes.

At the place is the Pravda stop on the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway (route km 36 from Moscow Yaroslavl station ). The M8 Moscow - Yaroslavl  - Arkhangelsk road passes about 2 km to the east.

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

• Settlement Administration website (Russian)