Rameschki (Tver, Rameschkowski)

Urban-type settlement Rameschki Рамешки flag Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tver Rajon Rameschkowski First mention 1551 Earlier names Ramenki Urban-type settlement since 1979 population 4,318 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48244 Post Code 171400 License Plate 69 OKATO 28 247 551 Website rameshkiadm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 21 '  N , 36 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 20 '45 "  N , 36 ° 2' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tver Oblast

Rameschki ( Russian Ра́мешки ) is an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast in Russia with 4,318 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 50 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center not far from the right bank of the Kamenka, which flows into the Medveditsa about 8 km south of the left .

Rameschki is the administrative center of the Rajons Rameschkowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Rameschki. A significant proportion of the settlement's inhabitants, just under a third, are Karelians who have settled in the region since the 15th to 17th centuries.

history

The place was first mentioned as Ramenki in 1551 , when Tsar Ivan IV confirmed the possession of the village to the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad . The village, which was abandoned in the meantime and settled again in 1646 and is now called Ramenka , belonged to the monastery until 1764. In the 18th century it was first referred to as Rameschka and subsequently belonged to the Ujesd Beschezk .

On August 30, 1929, Rameschki became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1979 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1781	107
1859	385
1902	441
1939	1238
1959	1499
1970	2255
1979	3476
1989	4390
2002	4246
2010	4318

Note: census data since 1939

traffic

Rameschki is bypassed to the east by regional road 28K-0058, which, coming from Tver, continues in a north-easterly direction via Beschezk to Vessyegonsk and the border of Vologda Oblast , on to Ustyuzhna . To the north, the 28K-0974 branches off to the neighboring district center of Maksaticha .

The nearest train stations are each a good 50 km away in Tver on the Saint Petersburg - Moscow route and Maksaticha on the Rybinsk  - Bologoje route .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Gennady Voronov (1910–1994), 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)