Radishchevo (Ulyanovsk)

Urban-type settlement Radischtschewo Радищево flag Federal district Volga Oblast Ulyanovsk Rajon Radishchevsky First mention 1748 Earlier names Dworyanskaya Tereschka (until 1918) Urban-type settlement since 1978 population 4598 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 105  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84239 Post Code 433910 License Plate 73, 173 OKATO 73 234 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 51 '  N , 47 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '15 "  N , 47 ° 52' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ulyanovsk Oblast

Radishchevo ( Russian Ради́щево ) is an urban-type settlement in the Ulyanovsk Oblast in Russia with 4598 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 160 km as the crow flies south of the Ulyanovsk Oblast Administrative Center on both sides of the upper reaches of the right Volga tributary Tereschka , at the confluence of the Berjosowka from the right and the Masa from the left.

Radishchevo is the administrative center of Radishchevsky Rajon and the seat of the municipality of Radishchevskoye Gorodskoye Posselenije , which also includes the villages of Adoyevshchina (10 km northwest), Belogorowka (9 km southwest), Bogdanowka (6 km northwest), Nowaja Dmitrijewka (8 km southwest), Novaya Dmitrijewka (8 km southwest) 7 km southeast), Tschauschi (13 km southwest) and Woskressenowka (6 km southeast) belong.

history

The town was founded in the late 17th century on lands that the boyars Lev Naryshkin, uncle of the Tsar Peter I belonged. He was given the name Dworjanskaja Tereschka (about " Adlig -Tereschka"), under which he was first mentioned in 1748. In 1777 the place was bought by Afanassi Radishchev, grandfather of the writer Alexander Radishchev , after whom he is called today. From the end of the 18th century it belonged to the Ujesd Chwalynsk of the Saratov governorate .

In October 1918 the village got its current name. On January 25, 1935, it became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. Since February 28, 1978 Radishchevo has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	2939
1939	2967
1959	2552
1970	2795
1979	3532
1989	4710
2002	4888
2010	4598

Note: census data

traffic

Radishchev is on the regional road 73K-1427, which branches off south of Ulyanovsk from the Syzran  - Ulyanovsk branch of the federal trunk road M5 , via the district centers of Kuzovatovo and Novospasskoye (on the M5 main route), coming on via the neighboring district center of Staraya Kulatka to the southwest Saratov Oblast , from there towards Chwalynsk.

The nearest train station is a good 30 km north in the neighboring district center Novospasskoye on the route ( Moscow  -) Ryashsk  - Penza  - Sysran.

Web links

• Official website of the district 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)