Russkaya Polyana (Omsk)
Urban-type settlement
Russkaya Polyana
Русская Поляна
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Russkaja Poljana ( Russian Ру́сская Поля́на ) is an urban-type settlement in the Omsk Oblast in Russia with 5922 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 140 km as the crow flies south-southeast of the Omsk Oblast Administrative Center in the southern part of the West Siberian lowlands . It is about 15 km from the border with Kazakhstan to the south and north-west .
Russkaya Polyana is the administrative center of the Rajons Russko-Polyansky and seat of the municipality posselenije Russko-Poljanskoje gorodskoje, which also includes the settlement in the station Russkaya Polyana heard (about 2 km south).
history
The place was founded in 1907. The name stands in Russian for Russian clearing , although the place is located in largely forest-free steppe area. In 1935 Russkaya Polyana became the administrative seat of a raion named after him, spun off from the neighboring Pavlogradsky rajon . At the same time it received the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 1525 |
1959 | 3568 |
1970 | 5172 |
1979 | 6252 |
1989 | 7997 |
2002 | 6532 |
2010 | 5922 |
Note: census data
traffic
Russkaya Polyana is the end of the regional road 52K-3, which comes from Omsk via the neighboring Rajon center Pavlogradka to the north . Between Pavlogradka and Russkaya Polyana, the road leads almost 10 km across Kazakh territory without touching any towns. In a southerly direction, the road from Russkaya Polyana continues as 52A-2 to a border crossing to Kazakhstan, and from there to the settlement of Ertis on the Irtysh , in the direction of Pavlodar .
Two kilometers south of the settlement, the station of the same name was located at kilometer 305 of the route Kokshetau - Irtyschskoje ( Bolschegriwskoje ), Part of the original "central Siberian Railway", which was completed as the last 1965th After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the little-traveled, single-track and non-electrified section was interrupted and decommissioned on the Kazakh side in the 1990s from Kischkeneköl ( Ksyltu until 1997 ) to the border and later dismantled. In 2005 the Russian section, on which there was previously only freight traffic, was closed and later also dismantled from Russkaya Polyana to the state border.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Alexander Schreider (* 1985), biathlete
Web links
- Russkaja Polyana in the web portal of the Omsk Oblast (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)