Rakitnoye (Belgorod)

Urban-type settlement Rakitnoe Ракитное coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Rakitnoye First mention 1652 Urban-type settlement since 1975 population 10,286 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47245 Post Code 309310 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 248 551 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 50 ′  N , 35 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 35 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Rakitnoje ( Russian Ракитное ) is an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,286 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located almost 60 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the Oblast Administrative Center Belgorod , on the upper reaches of the Rakita (also Rakitnaja ) river, which flows over the Pena to the left Dnepr tributary Psjol . The word rakita , from which the place name is derived, is one of the Russian names for silver willow .

Rakitnoye is the administrative center of the Rakitnoye Rajon of the same name .

history

The place was founded in 1652 on land that belonged to the Ukrainian hetman from the Kotschubei family. Later the property passed to the confidante of Tsar Peter I Alexander Menshikov , after his overthrow in 1728 to the noble family Yusupov . Until the revolution of 1917 , the Sloboda Rakitnaya, as the place was called at the time, administered the huge estates of the Yusupov family in the Kursk , Voronezh , Kharkov and Poltava governorates .

On July 30, 1928, Rakitnoye became the administrative center of a Rajon. During the Second World War , the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from October 20, 1941 to the spring of 1943 , but was still close to the front until the battle of the Kursk Arc in summer 1943. In 1975, Rakitnoye received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2,294
1959	6,921
1970	7.157
1979	10,224
1989	11,211
2002	10,462
2010	10,286

Note : census data

Attractions

The well-preserved residence of the Yusupov family from 1840 and the Nikolai Church (Swjato-Nikolskaya zerkow) from 1832 are located in Rakitnoye .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Rakitnoye there are food processing plants and a valve factory .

A few kilometers southwest of Rakitnoye, near the settlement of Proletarski, is the Gotnja railway station , where the Belgorod - Sumy ( Ukraine ) and Brjansk  - Kharkov lines intersect. From there a branch line leads to the Sinaidino station in Rakitnoje , where only goods traffic is operated today.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Grigori Postnikow (1914–1978), sculptor

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

• Rakitnoye Raion Administration website (Russian)