Progress (Amur)

Urban-type settlement Progress Прогресс Federal district far East Oblast Amur Urban district progress head Anatoly Panasko Founded 1927 Urban-type settlement since 1956 population 11,156 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41647 Post Code 676790-676792 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 465 Website www.progress.amur.ru Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 45 '  N , 129 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '30 "  N , 129 ° 40' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Progress ( Russian Прогресс ) is an urban-type settlement in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 11,156 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is about 160 km as the crow flies southeast of the Oblast capital Blagoveschensk not far from the city of Raichichinsk on the Kiwda river, a good 10 km above its confluence with the Bureja . The Kiwda is dammed into a small reservoir at Progress.

Progress forms an urban district that is directly subordinate to the oblast administration, to which the Novoraitschichinsk and Kiwda villages also belong.

history

The history of the place begins in 1927, when resettlers from Belarus founded a collective farm of the same name ( Progress für progress ) not far from the older village of Kiwda . In the 1930s, a railway line to Raitschichinsk and the newly developed open- cast lignite mines ran through the town.

In 1946, the construction of various industrial plants and the Raitschichinsk thermal power station began near Progress , which went into operation on October 25, 1953. In 1956, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and was subordinate to the western neighboring city Raichichinsk administratively.

As part of an administrative reform, Progress was spun off into an independent urban district (Gorodskoi okrug) in 2005 .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	9,503
1970	13,480
1979	13,065
1989	14,345
2002	13,080
2010	11,156

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

In addition to the Raitschichinskaja GRES thermal power plant with an output of 219  megawatts , Progress also has companies in the construction industry, the food industry, and machine and device construction.

The settlement is on the railway line that has been running from the Bureja station of the Trans-Siberian Railway to Raichichinsk since 1936 ( Amurskaya stations , route km 12 and Progress , km 16). The regional road R 466 , which connects the R 461 Blagoweschtschensk - Oblutschje bei Raitschichinsk with Bureja and Novobureiski on the trunk road M58 Amur , runs through the village .

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. ↑ Amurskaya Generating Company  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Branch of the Far Eastern Generating Company (English, Russian)  

Web links

• Official website of the administration of the settlement (Russian)