Proletarsky (Belgorod)

Urban-type settlement Proletarski Пролетарский Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Rakitnoye Founded 1903 Earlier names Gotnja, Rasdolje, Pokrowski (until 1938) Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 8654 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47245 Post Code 309300 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 248 570 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 48 '  N , 35 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '30 "  N , 35 ° 46' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

Proletarski ( Russian Пролетарский ) is an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,654 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is about 70 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the Belgorod Oblast Administrative Center .

Proletarski belongs to the Rakitnoye Rajon and is about five kilometers to the south-west of the Rakitnoye administrative seat . The surrounding villages Worskliza and Petrowski belong to the municipality (Gorodskoje posselenije) Proletarski.

history

The development of the place is related to the construction of the railway at the beginning of the 20th century. Between 1896 and 1901 the private Belgorod - Sumy railway was built . In 1903, at the instigation of the most important land and sugar factory owners in the area, the aristocratic Yusupov family and the merchants Tereschtschenko and Kharitonenko, the Gotnja station was opened not far from Yusupov's Rakitnaya residence. The name was given after the nearby villages Nikolajewskaja Gotnja and Vwedenskaja Gotnja.

In 1911 the North Donets Railway (Severo-Donetskaya schelesnaja doroga) opened its line from the Donets Basin ( Lichaya station ) via Kharkov to Lgov , where there was a connection to Central Russia ( Bryansk and Oryol ) and Kiev . Gotnja became a relatively important crossing station, a new station building and a larger locomotive depot were built. The station settlement of the same name grew considerably in the following years; a school and a church were built.

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  Gotnja depot of the North Donets Railway (1910s)

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  Opening of the expanded Gotnja station (1911)

After the October Revolution in 1917, another residential area was built nearby, Rasdolje and, in 1933, Pokrowski. In 1938 Gotnja, Rasdolje and Pokrowski were merged into one place, which under its current name (Russian adjective of proletariat ; thus, for example, 'proletarian settlement') received the status of an urban-type settlement. The train station kept the original name.

During the Second World War , the Proletarski was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from October 20, 1941 to February 19, 1943 , but remained close to the front until the battle in the Kursk Arc in summer 1943.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2355
1959	3795
1970	5477
1979	6915
1989	8167
2002	8675
2010	8654

Note : census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Proletarski is a railway junction with Gotnja station on the Belgorod - Sumy and Brjansk / Kursk  - Kharkiv routes . Starting from another existing short branch line to the neighboring Rakitnoye ( Sinaidino station ), a line to Ivanya (only freight traffic) in the north of the oblast was put into operation in 1988 . Today, all lines are operated by the Yugo-Vostochnaja schelesnaja doroga (Southeast Railway) of the Russian State Railways (RŽD). A repair shop for railway cars (Transwagonmasch) is attached to the station .

There are also companies in the food and construction industries.

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

• Proletarsky on the Rakitnoye Raion Administration website (Russian)