Pronsk

Urban-type settlement Pronsk Пронск flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ryazan Rajon Pronski head Viktor Radko First mention 1131 Urban-type settlement since 1958 population 3943 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49155 Post Code 391140 License Plate 62 OKATO 61 225 551 Website www.pronsk.info Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 7 '  N , 39 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '15 "  N , 39 ° 36' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ryazan Oblast

Pronsk ( Russian Пронск ) is an urban-type settlement and former city in Ryazan Oblast in Russia with 3943 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 50 km as the crow flies south of the Ryazan Oblast Administrative Center on the right, eponymous Oka tributary Pronja .

Pronsk administrative center is the Rajons Pronski and seat and only town of the municipality posselenije Pronskoje gorodskoje.

history

The place was first mentioned in the Nikon Chronicle for the year 1131. During its existence it belonged to the Principality of Ryazan until the 16th century . From 1778 Pronsk had the modern city charter as the administrative seat of a Ujesd of the governorship, from 1796 of the Ryazan governorate .

In 1926 Pronsk lost its town charter, but on July 12, 1929 , as a village (selo) , it became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. Since 1958 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	7907
1939	1986
1959	3449
1970	4980
1979	4749
1989	5105
2002	4330
2010	3943

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road from Ryazan runs through Pronsk on the federal trunk road M5 to Skopin , a good 30 km south , where there is a connection to the federal trunk road R22 Kaspi . In an easterly direction a road branches off to the nearest railway station, Khrushchevo , about 25 km away on the Moscow  - Ryazan - Voronezh / Saratov route .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Uladzimir Yarmozhyn (* 1942), Belarusian politician

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)

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)