Russkaya Polyana (Omsk)

Urban-type settlement Russkaya Polyana Русская Поляна Federal district Siberia Oblast Omsk Rajon Russko-Polyansky head Viktor Rojenko Founded 1907 Urban-type settlement since 1935 population 5922 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 125  m Time zone UTC + 6 Telephone code (+7) 38156 Post Code 646780 License Plate 55 OKATO 52 250 551 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 47 '  N , 73 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 46 '45 "  N , 73 ° 53' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Omsk Oblast

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
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

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)