Samoilowka (Saratov)
Urban-type settlement
Samoyovka
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Samoilowka ( Russian Само́йловка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Saratov Oblast in Russia with 7580 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is a good 160 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the Saratov Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the right Medveditsa tributary Tersa , not far from the border with the neighboring Volgograd Oblast to the south .
Samoilowka is the administrative center of the Rajons Samoilowski and seat of the municipality Samoilowskoje gorodskoje posselenije, (3 km northwest) (9 km north) are among the also the village Salessjanka and the settlement Alexejewski.
history
The place was founded in the middle of the 18th century by resettlers from what is now Ukraine . It quickly became a local center and seat of a Volost .
On July 23, 1928, Samoilowka became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1967 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1795 | 3164 |
1939 | 8221 |
1959 | 7287 |
1970 | 7594 |
1979 | 7409 |
1989 | 8460 |
2002 | 8648 |
2010 | 7580 |
Note: census data
traffic
On the southern edge of the village is the station Tri Ostrowa (literally "three islands", after an unofficial alternative name of the place, based on three peninsulas that form the meander of the Tersa river) at kilometer 268 of the Tambov - Balashov - Kamyshin railway line opened in 1894 .
After Samoilowka the regional road 18K-6 of the Volgograd Oblast continues, which runs via Novoanninski on the federal trunk road R22 to Volgograd - Astrakhan and the settlement Jelan 25 km south . To the north, the Tersa is followed by a regional road which, after about 40 km, joins the Borisoglebsk - Balashov - Kalininsk - Saratov branch of the R22.
Web links
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)